Error Detection Using BMC in a Parallel Environment

In this paper, we explore a parallelization of BMC based on state space partitioning. The parallelization is accomplished by executing multiple instances of BMC independently from different seed states. These seed states are deep states, selected from the reachable states in different partitions. In this scheme, all processors work independently of each other, thus it is suitable for scaling verification to a grid-like network. Our experimental results demonstrate improvement over existing approaches, and show that the method can scale to a large network.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CHARME
• Authors: Subramanian K. Iyer, Jawahar Jain, Mukul R. Prasad, Debashis Sahoo, Thomas Sidle
• Keywords: CHARME 2005, Different Seed States, Hardware, Seed States, State Space Partitioning