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Formal Verification  of
Globally-Iterated/Locally-Non-Iterated Systems

Lubomir Ivanov
Department of Computer Science
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ 07030
livanov@cs.stevens-tech.edu

 
Ramakrishna Nunna
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
California State University Fresno, MS 94
Fresno, CA 93740
rnunna@csufresno.edu
Abstract
Formal Verification of hardware has significantly gained in popularity as an alternative to testing and simulation in hardware design. Recently we introduced a new methodology for verification of non-iterated systems. The technique is based on the inductively defined notion of a series-parallel poset. In this paper we extend the notion of series-parallel posets to allow the modeling of systems involving global iteration. For this class of systems we present a verification algorithm, and discuss its foundation.