Fault localization and correction with QBF

  • Authors:
  • Stefan Staber;Roderick Bloem

  • Affiliations:
  • Graz University of Technology;Graz University of Technology

  • Venue:
  • SAT'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Theory and applications of satisfiability testing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper, we study the use of QBF solvers for fault localization and correction of sequential circuits. Given a violated specification, we compute whether the circuit can be repaired by evaluating a sequence of quantified Boolean formulas. If a repair exists, it can be extracted from a certificate for another quantified Boolean formula. Because it only finds components when a repair is possible, this approach is more precise than a satisfiability-based approach that we have developed earlier. We demonstrate this in an experimental evaluation.