We propose an alternative, explicit state only, approach to concurrent system synthesis. In particular, the focus of this work is on the synthesis of distributed protocols. Given a correctness specification and a protocol skeleton (i.e. incomplete with holes), the goal is to synthesize the holes. At the heart of our technique is a dynamic programming based algorithm that prunes inferred failure ca...Show More
In this paper, we verify a modern lazy cache coherence protocol, TSO-CC, against the memory consistency model it was designed for, TSO. We achieve this by first showing a weak simulation relation between TSO-CC (with a fixed number of processors) and a novel finite-state operational model which exhibits the laziness of TSO-CC and satisfies TSO. We then extend this by an existing parameterisation t...Show More
