%% For double-blind review submission, w/o CCS and ACM Reference (max submission space) \documentclass[sigplan,10pt,pagebackref=true,review,anonymous]{acmart}\settopmatter{printfolios=true,printccs=false,printacmref=false} %\documentclass[pagebackref=true,acmsmall,review]{acmart}\settopmatter{printfolios=true,printccs=false,printacmref=false} %% For double-blind review submission, w/ CCS and ACM Reference %\documentclass[acmsmall,review,anonymous]{acmart}\settopmatter{printfolios=true} %% For single-blind review submission, w/o CCS and ACM Reference (max submission space) %\documentclass[acmsmall,review]{acmart}\settopmatter{printfolios=true,printccs=false,printacmref=false} %% For single-blind review submission, w/ CCS and ACM Reference %\documentclass[acmsmall,review]{acmart}\settopmatter{printfolios=true} %% For final camera-ready submission, w/ required CCS and ACM Reference %\documentclass[acmsmall]{acmart}\settopmatter{} %% Journal information %% Supplied to authors by publisher for camera-ready submission; %% use defaults for review submission. \acmJournal{PACMPL} \acmVolume{1} \acmNumber{CONF} % CONF = POPL or ICFP or OOPSLA \acmArticle{1} \acmYear{2018} \acmMonth{1}\acmDOI{} \startPage{1} %% Copyright information %% Supplied to authors (based on authors' rights management selection; %% see authors.acm.org) by publisher for camera-ready submission; %% use 'none' for review submission. \setcopyright{none} %\setcopyright{acmcopyright} %\setcopyright{acmlicensed} %\setcopyright{rightsretained} %\copyrightyear{2018} %% Bibliography style \bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format} %% Citation style %\citestyle{acmauthoryear} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage{mathpartir} \usepackage{pgfplots} \usepackage{soul} \usepackage{subcaption} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{minted} \setminted{fontsize=\small} \newif\ifCOMMENTS \COMMENTStrue \newcommand{\Comment}[3]{\ifCOMMENTS\textcolor{#1}{{\bf [\![#2:} #3{\bf ]\!]}}\fi} \newcommand\JW[1]{\Comment{red!75!black}{JW}{#1}} \newcommand\YH[1]{\Comment{green!50!blue}{YH}{#1}} \newcommand\JP[1]{\Comment{blue!50!black}{JP}{#1}} \newcommand\NR[1]{\Comment{yellow!50!black}{NR}{#1}} \newcommand\JWcouldcut[1]{{\setstcolor{red!75!black}\st{#1}}} \definecolor{compcert}{HTML}{66c2a5} \definecolor{formalhls}{HTML}{fc8d62} \definecolor{keywordcolour}{HTML}{8f0075} \definecolor{functioncolour}{HTML}{721045} \definecolor{constantcolour}{HTML}{0000bb} \newcommand\yhkeywordsp[1]{\;\;\texttt{\textcolor{keywordcolour}{#1}}} \newcommand\yhkeyword[1]{\texttt{\textcolor{keywordcolour}{#1}}} \newcommand\yhfunctionsp[1]{\;\;\texttt{\textcolor{functioncolour}{#1}}} \newcommand\yhfunction[1]{\texttt{\textcolor{functioncolour}{#1}}} \newcommand\yhconstant[1]{\texttt{\textcolor{constantcolour}{#1}}} \newcommand{\vericert}{Veri\-cert}% \newcommand{\compcert}{Comp\-Cert}% \begin{document} %% Title information \title[Formal Verification of HLS]{Formal Verification of High-Level Synthesis} %% when present, will be used in %% header instead of Full Title. %\titlenote{with title note} %% \titlenote is optional; %% can be repeated if necessary; %% contents suppressed with 'anonymous' %\subtitle{Subtitle} %% \subtitle is optional %\subtitlenote{with subtitle note} %% \subtitlenote is optional; %% can be repeated if necessary; %% contents suppressed with 'anonymous' %% Author information %% Contents and number of authors suppressed with 'anonymous'. %% Each author should be introduced by \author, followed by %% \authornote (optional), \orcid (optional), \affiliation, and %% \email. %% An author may have multiple affiliations and/or emails; repeat the %% appropriate command. %% Many elements are not rendered, but should be provided for metadata %% extraction tools. %% Author with single affiliation. \author{Yann Herklotz} \orcid{0000-0002-2329-1029} \affiliation{ \institution{Imperial College London} \country{UK} } \email{yann.herklotz15@imperial.ac.uk} \author{James Pollard} \orcid{0000-0003-1404-1527} \affiliation{ \institution{Imperial College London} \country{UK} } \email{james.pollard16@imperial.ac.uk} \author{Nadesh Ramanathan} \orcid{0000-0000-0000-0000} \affiliation{ \institution{Imperial College London} \country{UK} } \email{n.ramanathan14@imperial.ac.uk} \author{John Wickerson} \orcid{0000-0000-0000-0000} \affiliation{ \institution{Imperial College London} \country{UK} } \email{j.wickerson@imperial.ac.uk} \begin{abstract} % \JW{This sentence is slightly confused because it’s not really ‘HLS’ that benefits, it’s the HLS user who benefits.} % \JW{‘cannot verify’ is a dubious claim – I guess something like SLEC can technically verify that the hardware is correct, but it’s a big faff to use it} % \JW{‘Not generating hardware’ isn’t too bad, and indeed VeriCert is guilty of that too, when presented with C programs that contain features that it can’t yet handle. The real problem is the HLS tool crashing unceremoniously.} High-level synthesis (HLS) refers to automatically compiling software into hardware. In a world increasingly reliant on application-specific hardware accelerators, HLS provides a higher-level of abstraction for hardware designers, while also allowing the designers to benefit from the rich software ecosystem to verify the functionality of their designs. However, adoption of HLS in safety-critical applications is still limited, because it may be infeasible to verify that the hardware implements the same behaviour as the software it was generated from, eliminating the benefits that software verification may provide. There is also evidence that HLS tools tend to be quite unreliable instead, either generating wrong hardware or sometimes crashing in unexpected ways for supported inputs. We present the first mechanically verified HLS tool that preserves the behaviour of the software according to our semantics. Our tool, called \vericert{}, extends the \compcert{} verified C compiler and consists of a new hardware-specific intermediate language and a Verilog back end, which has been proven correct in Coq. \vericert{} supports all C constructs except for function pointers, recursive function calls, non-integer types and global variables. It has been evaluated on all suitable PolyBench benchmarks, which indicates that it generates hardware with area and cycle count around a magnitude larger than an existing, unverified HLS tool. \end{abstract} %% 2012 ACM Computing Classification System (CSS) concepts %% Generate at 'http://dl.acm.org/ccs/ccs.cfm'. \begin{CCSXML} 10011007.10011006.10011008 Software and its engineering~General programming languages 500 10003456.10003457.10003521.10003525 Social and professional topics~History of programming languages 300 \end{CCSXML} \ccsdesc[500]{Software and its engineering~General programming languages} \ccsdesc[300]{Social and professional topics~History of programming languages} %% End of generated code %% Keywords %% comma separated list \keywords{\compcert{}, Coq, high-level synthesis, C, Verilog} \maketitle \input{introduction} \input{algorithm} \input{verilog} \input{proof} \input{evaluation} \input{related} \input{conclusion} %% Acknowledgments \begin{acks} %% acks environment is optional %% contents suppressed with 'anonymous' %% Commands \grantsponsor{}{}{} and %% \grantnum[]{}{} should be used to %% acknowledge financial support and will be used by metadata %% extraction tools. This material is based upon work supported by the \grantsponsor{GS100000001}{National Science Foundation}{http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001} under Grant No.~\grantnum{GS100000001}{nnnnnnn} and Grant No.~\grantnum{GS100000001}{mmmmmmm}. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. \end{acks} %% Bibliography \bibliography{references.bib} %% Appendix \input{appendix} \end{document} %%% Local Variables: %%% mode: latex %%% TeX-master: t %%% TeX-command-extra-options: "-shell-escape" %%% End: