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e�mail � emc�cs.cmu.edu e�mail � masahiro�eecs.berkeley.edu e�mail � xzhao�cs.cmu.edu Abstract � Functions that map boolean vectors into the in� tegers are important for the design and veri�cation of arith� metic circuits. MTBDDs and BMDs have been proposed for representing this class of functions. We discuss the relation� ship between these methods and describe a generalization called hybrid decision diagrams which is often much more concise. We show how to implement arithemetic operations e�ciently for hybrid decision diagrams. In practice � this is one of the main limitations of BMDs since performing arith� metic operations on functions expressed in this notation can be very expensive. In order to extend symbolic model check� ing algorithms to handle arithmetic properties � it is essential to be able to compute the BDD for the set of variable as� signments that satisfy an arithmetic relation. In our paper� we give an e�cient algorithm for this purpose. Moreover� we prove that for the class of linear expressions � the time complexity of our algorithm is linear in the number of vari� ables. 1

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