Stubborn sets for reduced state generation
APN 90 Proceedings on Advances in Petri nets 1990
Model checking
Partial-Order Reduction in Symbolic State-Space Exploration
Formal Methods in System Design - Special issue on CAV '97
Partial-Order Methods for the Verification of Concurrent Systems: An Approach to the State-Explosion Problem
An improvement in formal verification
Proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG6.1 International Conference on Formal Description Techniques VII
All from One, One for All: on Model Checking Using Representatives
CAV '93 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
Counterexample-guided abstraction refinement for symbolic model checking
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Software Model Checking: The VeriSoft Approach
Formal Methods in System Design
Pinapa: an extraction tool for SystemC descriptions of systems-on-a-chip
Proceedings of the 5th ACM international conference on Embedded software
Automatic Generation of Schedulings for Improving the Test Coverage of Systems-on-a-Chip
FMCAD '06 Proceedings of the Formal Methods in Computer Aided Design
The software model checker Blast: Applications to software engineering
International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT)
Partial order reduction for scalable testing of systemC TLM designs
Proceedings of the 45th annual Design Automation Conference
CAV '08 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computer Aided Verification
Race analysis for SystemC using model checking
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
A temporal language for SystemC
Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design
A systemC/TLM semantics in PROMELA and its possible applications
Proceedings of the 14th international SPIN conference on Model checking software
Peephole partial order reduction
TACAS'08/ETAPS'08 Proceedings of the Theory and practice of software, 14th international conference on Tools and algorithms for the construction and analysis of systems
Verifying SystemC: a software model checking approach
Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design
Symbolic model checking of concurrent programs using partial orders and on-the-fly transactions
CAV'06 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Computer Aided Verification
KRATOS: a software model checker for SystemC
CAV'11 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Computer aided verification
An analytic evaluation of SystemC encodings in Promela
Proceedings of the 18th international SPIN conference on Model checking software
Symbolic model checking on SystemC designs
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Design Automation Conference
Conquering the scheduling alternative explosion problem of SystemC symbolic simulation
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
A Semantics-based Translation Method for Automated Verification of SystemC TLM Designs
Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications
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The SystemC language is a de-facto standard for the description of systems on chip. A promising technique, called ESST, has recently been proposed for the formal verification of SystemC designs. ESST combines Explicit state techniques to deal with the SystemC Scheduler, with Symbolic techniques, based on lazy abstraction, to deal with the Threads. Despite its relative effectiveness, this approach suffers from the potential explosion of thread interleavings. In this paper we propose the adoption of partial order reduction (POR) techniques to alleviate the problem. We extend ESST with two complementary POR techniques (persistent set, and sleep set), and we prove the soundness of the approach in the case of safety properties. The extension is only seemingly trivial: the POR, applied to the scheduler, must be proved not to interfere with the lazy abstraction of the threads. We implemented the techniques within the software model checker KRATOS, and we carried out an experimental evaluation on benchmarks taken from the SystemC distribution and from the literature. The results showed a significant improvement in terms of the number of visited abstract states and run times.