Checking satisfiability of a conjunction of BDDs

  • Authors:
  • Robert Damiano;James Kukula

  • Affiliations:
  • Synopsys, Inc., Hillsboro, OR;Synopsys, Inc., Hillsboro, OR

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 40th annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Procedures for Boolean satisfiability most commonly work with Conjunctive Normal Form. Powerful SAT techniques based on implications and conflicts can be retained when the usual CNF clauses are replaced with BDDs. BDDs provide more powerful implication analysis, which can reduce the computational effort required to determine satisfiability.