Abstract

Bluespec refers to a language and associated tools which are being used for all aspects of hardware system design . specification, synthesis, modeling, and verification. The language, BSV (Bluespec SystemVerilog), is based on a new model of computation for hardware, where all behavior is described as a set of rewrite rules, or Guarded Atomic Actions. Unlike the process/thread model of Verilog, VHDL and SystemC, or the sequential model of C/C++, all behavior of a BSV program can be understood in terms of atomic rule firings. This computational model has a long pedigree in formal specification and verification systems (e.g., Dijkstra's Guarded Commands, UNITY, TLA+, and EventB), and BSV makes it available for hardware design.

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