Section: Application Domains

Certified Compilation for Embedded systems

Many frameworks have been designed in order to make the design and the development of embedded systems more rigourous and secure on the basis of some formal model. All these frameworks implicitly assume the reliability of the translation to executable code, in order to guarantee the verified properties in the design level are preserved in the implementation. In other words, they rely on a claim saying that the compilers from high level model description to the implementation will not introduce undesired behaviors or errors in silence. The only safe way to satisfy such a claim is to certify correctness of the compilers, that is, to prove that the code they produce has exactly the semantics of the source code or model.