A performance study of BDD-based model checking

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

Volumn 1522, Issue , 1998, Pages 255-289

  Yang, Bwolen ^a   Bryant, Randal E ^a   O’hallaron, David R ^a   Biere, Armin ^a   Coudert, Olivier ^b   Janssen, Geert ^c   Ranjan, Rajeev K ^b   Somenzi, Fabio ^d  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYNOPSYS INC   (United States)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY DECISION DIAGRAMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; FORMAL METHODS;

BINARY DECISION DIAGRAMS (BDDS); COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS; EVALUATION FRAMEWORK; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; IN-BUILDINGS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PERFORMANCE STUDY; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 84948947376     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-49519-3_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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