Formal Verification UI for Real-Time Compiler Instruction Refinement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional systems lack user input-output architectures for evaluating and refining compiler architectures during development, leading to significant delays due to the inability for users to provide meaningful refinement during the evaluation process.
Innovation Solution
A user interface compatible with an integrated development environment (IDE) that supports run-time visualization and modification of formal verification models, allowing users to modify execution parameters and instructions dynamically, enhancing the formal verification process for compatibility with a compiler architecture.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional systems are used for evaluating compiler architectures, then the evaluation process can be performed, but user interaction and refinement during the evaluation process are not possible, leading to significant delays
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a user interface that provides real-time feedback during the formal verification process by displaying the current state of execution of the verification model. This allows users to observe the evaluation process dynamically and provide input to modify instructions or parameters, enabling iterative refinement without restarting the entire process. The feedback mechanism resolves the contradiction by making the system responsive to user input while maintaining continuous execution.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms the static evaluation process into a dynamic one by allowing real-time modification of the verification model during execution. Users can change instructions and parameters on-the-fly, and the system adapts by re-executing only the affected portions of the verification process. This dynamic capability enables user interaction without requiring complete re-evaluation, thus reducing time loss.
2Adaptability or versatility
If formal verification models are executed without run-time modification capability, then the verification process can complete, but users cannot provide meaningful refinement during evaluation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the formal verification model into individual instructions and parameters that can be independently modified during execution. The user interface allows selection and modification of specific instructions or parameters without affecting the entire verification process. This segmentation enables precise, targeted refinements that maintain productivity by avoiding unnecessary re-execution of unchanged portions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary preparation by loading the complete verification model and making it available for interaction before full execution begins. The user interface pre-presents all instructions and parameters for potential modification, allowing users to plan and execute refinements efficiently during the evaluation process rather than requiring multiple complete re-runs.
3Ease of operation
If a user interface is added to enable run-time visualization and modification, then user interaction improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a multi-functional user interface that combines several capabilities into a single integrated system: visualization of execution state, modification of instructions, modification of parameters, and control of verification flow. This universal interface resolves the complexity issue by providing comprehensive functionality through a unified mechanism rather than separate independent systems, making the added complexity manageable and worthwhile.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects are directed to formal verification of computer instructions. A system may present, at a user interface, a first model including one or more instructions, the first model corresponding to a data structure that corresponds to the instructions in the first model, obtain, via the user interface and during a first traversal of the data structure, a first indication to modify to a predetermined value an unmodified parameter of an instruction among the instructions, and present, at the user interface in response to the indication to modify the unmodified parameter, a second indication of execution of one or more of the instructions in an order according to a second model that corresponds to the data structure and based on a modified parameter.