The C/C++ 11 memory model defines the semantics of concurrent memory accesses in
C/C++, and in particular supports racy" atomic" accesses at a range of different consistency …

Alloy: a language and tool for exploring software designs Page 1 66 COMMUNICATIONS OF
THE ACM | SEPTEMBER 2019 | VOL. 62 | NO. 9 contributed articles ALLOY IS A language and …

ARM has a relaxed memory model, previously specified in informal prose for ARMv7 and
ARMv8. Over time, and partly due to work building formal semantics for ARM concurrency, it …

We propose leakage containment models (LCMs)---novel axiomatic security contracts which
support formally reasoning about the security guarantees of programs when they run on …

We develop a new intermediate weak memory model, IMM, as a way of modularizing the
proofs of correctness of compilation from concurrent programming languages with weak …

Recent research has uncovered a broad class of security vulnerabilities in which
confidential data is leaked through programmer-observable microarchitectural state. In this …

The recent Meltdown and Spectre attacks highlight the importance of automated verification
techniques for identifying hardware security vulnerabilities. We have developed a tool for …

This paper presents the first formal analysis of the official memory consistency model for the
NVIDIA PTX virtual ISA. Like other GPU memory models, the PTX memory model is weakly …

Emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies promise the durability of disks with the
performance of volatile memory (RAM). To describe the persistency guarantees of NVM …

A memory consistency model specifies which writes to shared memory a given read may
see. Ambiguities or errors in these specifications can lead to bugs in both compilers and …