Complete Symbolic Simulation of SystemC Models

In his master thesis, Vladimir Herdt presents a novel approach, called complete symbolic simulation, for a more efficient verification of much larger (non-terminating) SystemC programs. The approach combines symbolic simulation with stateful model checking and allows to verify safety properties in (cyclic) finite state spaces, by exhaustive exploration of all possible inputs and process schedulings. The state explosion problem is alleviated by integrating two complementary reduction techniques. Compared to existing approaches, the complete symbolic simulation works more efficiently, and therefore can provide correctness proofs for larger systems, which is one of the most challenging tasks, due to the ever increasing complexity.

• Symbolic Execution
• Formal Verification
• Stateful Exploration
• Stateful Model Checking
• AVPE Algorithm
• SDPOR Algorithm

• Bremen, Germany

  Vladimir Herdt

Vladimir Herdt is working as Research Assistant in the Group of Computer Architecture at the University of Bremen, where he is pursuing his PhD degree. 

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