Harmonic launches Aristotle: AI that formally verifies code, starting with C and Verilog
wellecks · x · 2026-10-28
Harmonic expanded its theorem-proving AI Aristotle from math to code and hardware verification. Users describe required properties in plain English (or let it propose them); Aristotle works out proofs step by step and returns proved/refuted/open verdicts with assumptions, runnable on every commit. Launching with C and Verilog, it targets the gap where agents write more code than teams can review. DIII-D's fusion facility reports it reproduced a plasma-control algorithm from one paper plus a 254-word prompt in 4 hours, verified the C code's safety, and generated logically equivalent Verilog. Tensordyne calls it nearly fire-and-forget for RTL verification and spec auditing.
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