A write-based solver for SAT modulo the theory of arrays

  • Authors:
  • Miquel Bofill;Robert Nieuwenhuis;Albert Oliveras;Enric Rodríguez-Carbonell;Albert Rubio

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitat de Girona;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The extensional theory of arrays is one of the most important ones for applications of SAT Modulo Theories (SMT) to hardware and software verification. Here we present a new T-solver for arrays in the context of the DPLL(T) approach to SMT. The main characteristics of our solver are: (i) no translation of writes into reads is needed, (ii) there is no axiom instantiation, and (iii) the T-solver interacts with the Boolean engine by asking to split on equality literals between indices. Unlike most state-of-the-art array solvers, it is not based on a lazy instantiation of the array axioms. This novelty might make it more convenient to apply this solver in some particular environments. Moreover, it is very competitive in practice, specially on problems that require heavy reasoning on array literals.