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SAT based solutions for consistency problems in formal property specifications for open systems

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ICCAD '05: Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/ACM International conference on Computer-aided design

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Published: 31 May 2005 Publication History

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Formal property verification is increasingly being adopted by designers for module level validation. The behavior of a module is typically expressed in terms of the behavioral guarantee of the module under assumptions on its environment. Expressing such assume-guarantee properties correctly in a formal language is a nontrivial task and errors in the specification are not uncommon. In this paper we examine the main forms of specification errors for open systems, and present SAT based algorithms for verifying the specification against such errors.

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