2002 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE'02)
BerkMin: A Fast and Robust Sat-Solver
Paris, France
March 04-March 08
ISBN: 0-7695-1471-5
We describe a SAT-solver, BerkMin, that inherits such features of GRASP, SATO, and Chaff as clause recording, fast BCP, restarts, and conflict clause "aging". At the same time BerkMin introduces a new decision making procedure and a new method of clause database management. We experimentally compare BerkMin with Chaff, the leader among SAT-solvers used in the EDA domain. Experiments show that our solver is more robust than Chaff. BerkMin solved all the instances we used in experiments including very large CNFs from a microprocessor verification benchmark suite. On the other hand, Chaff was not able to complete some instances even with the timeout limit of 16 hours.
Citation:
E. Goldberg, Y. Novikov, "BerkMin: A Fast and Robust Sat-Solver," date, pp.0142, 2002 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE'02), 2002