This book describes the methodology and accompanying technology for reducing the costs of validation of changes by introducing automatic techniques to analyze and test software increments. It builds a unified approach to efficient and reliable validation of changes and upgrades, and may be used as a research monograph and a reference book.

A decision procedure is an algorithm that, given a decision problem, terminates with a correct yes/no answer. Here, the authors focus on theories that are expressive enough to model real problems, but are still decidable. Specifically, the book concentrates on decision procedures for first-order theories that are commonly used in automated verification and reasoning, theorem-proving, compiler optimization and operations research. The techniques described in the book draw from fields such as graph theory and logic, and are routinely used in industry. The authors introduce the basic terminology of satisfiability modulo theories and then, in separate chapters, study decision procedures for each of the following theories: propositional logic; equalities and uninterpreted functions; linear arithmetic; bit vectors; arrays; pointer logic; and quantified formulas.

A decision procedure is an algorithm that, given a decision problem, terminates with a correct yes/no answer. Here, the authors focus on theories that are expressive enough to model real problems, but are still decidable. Specifically, the book concentrates on decision procedures for first-order theories that are commonly used in automated verification and reasoning, theorem-proving, compiler optimization and operations research. The techniques described in the book draw from fields such as graph theory and logic, and are routinely used in industry. The authors introduce the basic terminology of satisfiability modulo theories and then, in separate chapters, study decision procedures for each of the following theories: propositional logic; equalities and uninterpreted functions; linear arithmetic; bit vectors; arrays; pointer logic; and quantified formulas.

A decision procedure is an algorithm that, given a decision problem, terminates with a correct yes/no answer. Here, the authors focus on theories that are expressive enough to model real problems, but are still decidable. Specifically, the book concentrates on decision procedures for first-order theories that are commonly used in automated verification and reasoning, theorem-proving, compiler optimization and operations research. The techniques described in the book draw from fields such as graph theory and logic, and are routinely used in industry. The authors introduce the basic terminology of satisfiability modulo theories and then, in separate chapters, study decision procedures for each of the following theories: propositional logic; equalities and uninterpreted functions; linear arithmetic; bit vectors; arrays; pointer logic; and quantified formulas.

This book describes the methodology and accompanying technology for reducing the costs of validation of changes by introducing automatic techniques to analyze and test software increments. It builds a unified approach to efficient and reliable validation of changes and upgrades, and may be used as a research monograph and a reference book.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2010, held in Haifa, Israel in October 2010. The 10 revised full papers presented together with 7 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers address all current issues, challenges and future directions of verification for hardware, software, and hybrid systems and have a research focus on hybrid methods and the migration of methods and ideas between hardware and software, static and dynamic analysis, pre- and post-silicon.

The two-volume set LNCS 9206 and LNCS 9207 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2015, held in San Francisco, CA, USA, in July 2015. The total of 58 full and 11 short papers presented in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 252 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: model checking and refinements; quantitative reasoning; software analysis; lightning talks; interpolation, IC3/PDR, and Invariants; SMT techniques and applications; HW verification; synthesis; termination; and concurrency.

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments, VSTTE 2014, held in July 2014 at the Vienna Summer of Logic in Vienna, Austria, as an associated event of CAV 2014, the International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully revised and selected from 34 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as analysis: understanding and explanation; verification frameworks and applications; hypervisors and dynamic data structures; certification; real time and security.

The two-volume set LNCS 9206 and LNCS 9207 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2015, held in San Francisco, CA, USA, in July 2015. The total of 58 full and 11 short papers presented in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 252 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: model checking and refinements; quantitative reasoning; software analysis; lightning talks; interpolation, IC3/PDR, and Invariants; SMT techniques and applications; HW verification; synthesis; termination; and concurrency.

Dieses Einfuhrungswerk in die Digitaltechnik wurde speziell fur Bachelorstudenten entwickelt. Es enthalt viele auf den Anfanger zugeschnittene praktische Anwendungen. Folgende Aspekte sind einmalig: Tool-orientierter Ansatz - Verwendung der Hardwarebeschreibungssprache Verilog - Einfuhrung in systematische Methoden zur Fehlersuche - Geringe Anforderungen an die mathematischen Vorkenntnisse - Ein vereinfachter X86 IA32-Prozessor als Anwendungsbeispiel

Die vorgestellten Beispiele werden mit Hilfe von Tools wie XILINX ISE und MentorGraphics ModelSim in echte Schaltungen umgesetzt. Diese Tools werden auch im industriellen Alltag eingesetzt. Im Internet werden weitere Ubungen, realisierte Beispiele sowie Animationen angeboten. Fur Dozenten stehen Folien zum Abrufen bereit. "