Pancake is a research programming language currently under development at Chalmers University of Technology, ANU, and UNSW. It comes with a formally verified compiler and is built from the ground up for predictable compilation and ease of verification.
Pancake is intended to be used for low level programming, such as device drivers. It is similar to C, but is significantly simpler. While this makes it easier to verify Pancake programs, it means that writing or porting existing components to Pancake can be time consuming.
This project aims to create a tool to automatically translate C code into a Pancake program that we would then either manually edit or directly do formal verification on.
School
Computer Science and Engineering
Research Area
Programming languages | Operating systems
Suitable for recognition of Work Integrated Learning (industrial training)?
Yes
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The Trustworthy Systems (TS) Group is the pioneer in formal (mathematical) correctness and security proofs of computer systems software. Its formally verified seL4 microkernel, now backed by the seL4 Foundation, is deployed in real world systems ranging from defence systems via medical devices, autonomous cars to critical infrastructure. The group's vision is to make verified software the standard for security and safety critical systems. Core to this a focus on performance as well as making software verification more scalable and less expensive.
- Report outlining the approach taken, tradeoffs considered and work done;
- Pull request to the Trustworthy Systems Group's github repository with implementations.
