The design and verification of a broadcast-based cache coherence protocol

The detailed design of a broadcast-based cache coherence protocol in full mesh network structure is introduced. The requests are directly sent to all nodes rather than to the third part first in directory-based protocol. The node that latest gets the valid copy will answer the request. Analysis and verification is given, and also the model of the protocol. The correctness of the protocol is proved by the model checking tool NuSMV.