Beyond safety: Customized SAT-based model checking

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 738-743

  Ganai, Malay K ^a   Gupta, Aarti ^a   Ashar, Pranav ^a  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bounded model checking; Circuit cofactoring; Formal verification; Liveness; LTL; SAT; Unbounded model checking

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BOUNDED MODAL CHECKING (BMC); FORMAL VERIFICATION; LTL;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 27944484980     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/dac.2005.193909     Document Type: Conference Paper

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