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CS269: HW/SW Engineering of Embedded Systems, Winter02
Formal Models
Formal model:  derived from the meta-model for applying formal methods
• Mathematical formulations of the semantics of the meta model:
   - each construct (‘if’, ‘for’, ‘await’, ...)
   - sequence of statements
   - composition of connected objects
  H the semantics may be abstracted
• Restrictions on the meta model
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Formal methods (verification and synthesis) applicable on given models