Formal verification is being used by virtually every big name in chip design. That said, this is the first I've read of someone starting by parsing the ISA spec

Formal verification is being used by virtually every big name in chip design. That said, this is the first I've read of someone starting by parsing the ISA specification. It has been talked about but some people (myself included) were not sure if it would be reasonable in practice. It feels like most of the recent architecture grad students that I know have gone into formal verification in industry.