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CVC4

Authors:

Christopher L. Conway,

Liana Hadarean,

Dejan Jovanović,

Andrew Reynolds,

Cesare TinelliAuthors Info & Claims

CAV'11: Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Computer aided verification

Pages 171 - 177

Published: 14 July 2011 Publication History

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CVC4 is the latest version of the Cooperating Validity Checker. A joint project of NYU and U Iowa, CVC4 aims to support the useful feature set of CVC3 and SMT-LIBv2 while optimizing the design of the core system architecture and decision procedures to take advantage of recent engineering and algorithmic advances. CVC4 represents a completely new code base; it is a from-scratch rewrite of CVC3, and many subsystems have been completely redesigned. Additional decision procedures for CVC4 are currently under development, but for what it currently achieves, it is a lighter-weight and higher-performing tool than CVC3. We describe the system architecture, subsystems of note, and discuss some applications and continuing work.

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CAV'11: Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Computer aided verification

July 2011

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University of Utah, School of Computing, Salt Lake City, UT
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