News
20-Apr-2015: BLAST 2.7.3 at SV-COMP'2015
Submitted by Vadim Mutilin on Mon, 20/04/2015 - 16:10BLAST 2.7.3 was presented at the 4rd International Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP) held at TACAS 2015 in London, United Kingdom. This year BLAST has won the gold medal in the DeviceDrivers64 category.
18-Feb-2015: The first public release of Astraver Toolset
Submitted by Mikhail Mandrykin on Wed, 18/02/2015 - 14:30We are happy to announce the first public release of Astraver Toolset 1.0 that is built on top of the 'Frama-C + Jessie + Why3 IDE' deductive verification toolchain. The toolchain was adapted, so it can be used to specify and prove properties of Linux kernel code. The most of our modifications go to the Jessie plugin, while the Frama-C front-end and the Why3 platform have got just minor fixes or improvements.
16-Jan-2015: Version 0.7 of LDV Tools released
Submitted by admin on Fri, 16/01/2015 - 06:21LDV Tools 0.7 comes with quite a lot improvements and bug fixes:
- Compatibility with Linux kernel 3.17-3.19.
- Improvements in 12 existing rule specifications:
27-Aug-2014: Version 0.6 of LDV Tools released
Submitted by admin on Wed, 27/08/2014 - 13:35LDV Tools 0.6 includes the following most important changes:
- Compatibility with Linux kernel 3.14-3.16.
- Improvements in 5 existing rule specifications:
24-Jun-2014: The LDV team gave a talk at the 9th Ershov Informatics Conference
Submitted by admin on Fri, 27/06/2014 - 13:17LDV team member Ilja Zakharov gave a talk “Modeling Environment for Static Verification of Linux Kernel Modules” at the 9th Ershov Informatics Conference. The talk presented results of joint research with Alexey Khoroshilov, Vadim Mutilin and Evgeny Novikov dedicated to modeling environment of Linux kernel modules for the purpose of their static verification using modern software model checking tools.
29-Apr-2014: Linux Driver Verification is presented at Dagstuhl Seminar
Submitted by admin on Tue, 29/04/2014 - 16:19Linux Driver Verification Team members, Alexey Khoroshilov and Vadim Mutilin, took part in the Dagstuhl Seminar on Evaluating Software Verification Systems: Benchmarks and Competitions at April 21–25, 2014. The seminar was organized by Dirk Beyer (Universität Passau), Marieke Huisman (University of Twente), Vladimir Klebanov (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) and Rosemary Monahan (NUI Maynooth).
17-Apr-2014: BLAST 2.7.2 at SV-COMP'2014 and LDV experiments
Submitted by admin on Thu, 17/04/2014 - 13:17BLAST 2.7.2 was presented at the 3rd International Competition on Software Verification held at TACAS 2014 in Grenoble, France. This year BLAST won the gold medal in the DeviceDrivers64 category.
14-Apr-2014: 4th Linux Driver Verification Workshop took place in Passau
Submitted by admin on Mon, 14/04/2014 - 07:144th Linux Driver Verification Workshop was held in Passau, Germany on April 2-4. The workshop was arranged by prof. Alexander Petrenko (Linux Verification Center, ISPRAS, Moscow, Russia) and prof. Dirk Beyer (University of Passau, Germany).
10-Mar-2014: Linux Verification Center at Embedded World 2014
Submitted by admin on Sun, 09/03/2014 - 20:13Vadim Mutilin and Evgeny Novikov have taken part in Embedded World 2014 in cooperation with Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) on February 25-27, Nuremberg, Germany.
20-Feb-2014: Version 0.5 of LDV Tools released
Submitted by admin on Thu, 20/02/2014 - 07:08The major feature of this release is a control groups based resource manager aimed to limit and to count resource consumption of verifiers. Linux control groups allow to perform very accurate measurements without any noticeable overhead. Other important changes are as follows:
- Support for automatic verification of modules of the Linux kernel in user-defined configurations, including different computer architectures.