TITLE:
Probabilistic Verification over GF(2m) Using Mod2-OBDDs
AUTHORS:
J.L. Imana
KEYWORDS:
Verification, Probabilistic, OBDD, Mod2-OBDD, Galois Field GF(2m)
JOURNAL NAME:
Intelligent Information Management,
Vol.2 No.2,
March
16,
2010
ABSTRACT: Formal verification is fundamental in many phases of digital systems design. The most successful verification procedures employ Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams (OBDDs) as canonical representation for both Boolean circuit specifications and logic designs, but these methods require a large amount of memory and time. Due to these limitations, several models of Decision Diagrams have been studied and other verification techniques have been proposed. In this paper, we have used probabilistic verification with Galois (or finite) field GF(2m) modifying the CUDD package for the computation of signatures in classical OBDDs, and for the construction of Mod2-OBDDs (also known as ?-OBDDs). Mod2-OBDDs have been constructed with a two-level layer of ?-nodes using a positive Davio expansion (pDE) for a given variable. The sizes of the Mod2-OBDDs obtained with our method are lower than the Mod2-OBDDs sizes obtained with other similar methods.