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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 27, 1998
Ronald H Hardin, Pataskala, OH (US);
Robert Paul Kurshan, New York, NY (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method wherein a verification tool checks the properties of a system model by performing a partial search of the system-model state space. A partial search is a search wherein the verification tool inputs, at each state of the system-model state space, only a subset or fraction of the complete set of inputs that would have been used during a conventional search. Performing a partial search, instead of a conventional search, reduces the total number of inputs that the verification tool will input to the system model during a search of the system-model state space, thus reducing the amount of computational resources and/or time needed by the verification tool to verify given properties of the system model. Moreover, performing a partial search, instead of a conventional search, does not substantially reduce the ability of the verification tool to identify errors in the system-model.