Hints to accelerate symbolic traversal

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1703, Issue , 1999, Pages 250-266

  Ravi, Kavita ^a   Somenzi, Fabio ^b  

^a CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; HARDWARE; MODEL CHECKING; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

BINARY DECISION DIAGRAMS (BDDS); BREADTH-FIRST APPROACH; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; INVARIANT CHECKING; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SIMULATION STIMULI; SYMBOLIC MODEL CHECKING; VERIFICATION PROPERTIES;

BINARY DECISION DIAGRAMS;

EID: 0343024318     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48153-2_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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