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We present a tool d-TSR for parallelizing SMT-based BMC over a distributed environment targeted for checking safety properties in low-level embedded (sequential) software. We use a tunneling and slicing-based reduction (TSR) approach to decompose disjunctively a BMC instance (at a given depth) into simpler and independent subproblems. We exploit such a decomposition to cut down communication cost and idle time of CPUs during synchronization while solving BMC instances. Our approach scales almost linearly with number of CPUs, as demonstrated in our experimental results.
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Ganai, M.K., Li, W. (2009). d-TSR: Parallelizing SMT-Based BMC Using Tunnels over a Distributed Framework. In: Chockler, H., Hu, A.J. (eds) Hardware and Software: Verification and Testing. HVC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5394. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01702-5_19
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