International Business Machines Corporation

Zoltan T Hidvegi

Bradley Nelson

Yee Ja

Bodo Hoppe

Michael David Moffitt

Michael P Mullen

Matthew Michael Garcia Pardini

Matyas A Sustik

Aspects of the invention include systems and methods for to detecting security vulnerabilities using modeled attribute propagation. A non-limited example of a computer-implemented method includes generating a model of a device under test, the model comprising a data path similar to the device under test and an attribute network. The method further includes detecting protected data that is introduced into the model and marking the protected data with an attribute. An end point of the marked protected data is detected along the data path. In response to the end point being indicative of a vulnerability, an alert is issued.

Identifying security vulnerabilities using modeled attribute propagation

A circuit design is compiled for hardware-accelerated functional verification by removing internal gates of a uniform operator tree (e.g., an assertion tree) while retaining node information, and partitioning the circuit to optimize connectivity without being constrained by the uniform operator tree. After partitioning, sub-trees are constructed for the partitions, and aggregated to form a master tree. The sub-trees can have leaf nodes at varying depths based on ranks of the leaf nodes, and the master tree can similarly provide inputs from the sub-trees at varying depths based on simulation depths for the sub-trees. The resynthesized master tree is structurally distinct from the original uniform operator tree but, since the inputs are commutative (e.g., OR gates), the functional equivalence of the model is preserved.

Partitioning and scheduling uniform operator logic trees for hardware accelerators

Asynchronous behavior of a circuit is emulated by modifying a netlist to insert additional logic at a driving element such as a latch. The additional logic outputs one of (i) a present output from the driving element, (ii) a delayed output from the driving element, or (iii) a random value, which drives downstream logic. The output of the additional logic is selectively responsive to a user-controlled skew enable input. The invention allows for simpler data skew logic transformations which are applicable to both latches and primary inputs, with no dependencies on any clock net.

Modeling asynchronous behavior from primary inputs and latches

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