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Fourth Asian Test Symposium (ATS'95)
An approach to hierarchy model checking via evaluating CTL hierarchically
Bangalore, India
November 23-November 24
ISBN: 0-8186-7129-7
Zuan Zhang, Fraunhofer-Inst. fur Integrierte Schaltungen Erlangen Aussenstelle Dresden, Germany
Symbolic Model Checking is one of the most efficient formal verification methods for hardware design. It uses Computational Tree Logic (CTL) for expressing formal specification of hardware design. However, the large demands of space by Symbolic Model Checking prevents itself from verifying large automates. In this paper we study the possibility of hierarchy evaluation of CTL formula. The result shows that CTL specifications for whole automata can be decomposed into local properties in some case, each of them can be verified on different subautomates respectively. By this way symbolic model checking can be completed hierarchically, which enable us to handle much larger circuits without a large growth of complexity.
Index Terms:
formal verification; formal logic; computational complexity; logic partitioning; hierarchical systems; hierarchy model checking; CTL; Computational Tree Logic; Symbolic Model Checking; formal specification; CTL specifications; local properties
Citation:
Zuan Zhang, "An approach to hierarchy model checking via evaluating CTL hierarchically," ats, pp.45, Fourth Asian Test Symposium (ATS'95), 1995
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