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A brief study of BDD package performance

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Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD 1996)

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The use of BDD techniques has become essential in a variety of CAD problems, and particularly in employing formal methods for design and verification. There are now many BDD packages available with many different features. Given a particular application, it is difficult to choose which package is best-suited for solving the problem, despite extensive published results on the packages. This paper contains a study of a few state-of-the art BDD packages. Results comparing the packages are reported on a variety of examples, for a variety of applications, and on several computing platforms. Great care has been taken to make fair and meaningful comparisons. The study is offered to compare current available BDD technology, and to encourage BDD package authors to use this experimental foundation and to make their results and code available to the research community.

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  1. Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées, B.P. 207, F 06904, Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France

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Sentovich, E.M. (1996). A brief study of BDD package performance. In: Srivas, M., Camilleri, A. (eds) Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design. FMCAD 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1166. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0031823

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