Formal specification languages have been used mostly to prove mathematically that a program or module is correct, or to automatically construct a correct program. In both cases, a high-level ...

Despite becoming one of the most widely used programming languages on the Web, PHP didn’t have a formal specification—until now. The developers who oversee the language, including engineers from ...

Although the PHP scripting language has been around since 1995 and is a staple of Web development, it does not actually have a formal language specification — just extensive user documentation. But ...

The IEEE today signed off on the IEEE 1850 PSL (property-specification-language) standard, which the organization says will help designers save verification time, effort, and cost while also improving ...

Standardization work is underway to develop assertion languages (for example, PSL and SystemVerilog Assertions) to address the shortcomings of natural language specification. The goal in creating ...

A technical paper titled “PEak: A Single Source of Truth for Hardware Design and Verification” was published by researchers at Stanford University. “Domain-specific languages for hardware can ...