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.