Title :
Balancing scalability and uniformity in SAT witness generator
Author :
Chakraborty, Shiladri ; Meel, Kuldeep S. ; Vardi, Moshe Y.
Author_Institution :
Indian Inst. of Technol., Bombay, Mumbai, India
Abstract :
Constrained-random simulation is the predominant approach used in the industry for functional verification of complex digital designs. The effectiveness of this approach depends on two key factors: the quality of constraints used to generate test vectors, and the randomness of solutions generated from a given set of constraints. In this paper, we focus on the second problem, and present an algorithm that significantly improves the state-of-the-art of (almost-)uniform generation of solutions of large Boolean constraints. Our algorithm provides strong theoretical guarantees on the uniformity of generated solutions and scales to problems involving hundreds of thousands of variables.
Keywords :
Boolean functions; computability; program verification; vectors; Boolean constraint quality; SAT witness generator; constrained-random simulation; functional complex digital design verification; scalability balancing; solution randomness; test vector generation; uniformity balancing; Benchmark testing; Computational modeling; Generators; Partitioning algorithms; Probabilistic logic; Radio frequency; Scalability;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2014 51st ACM/EDAC/IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
DOI :
10.1145/2593069.2593097