Abstract

We describe an implementation and a proof of correctness of binary decision diagrams (BDDs), completely formalized in Coq. This allows us to run BDD-based algorithms inside Coq and paves the way for a smooth integration of symbolic model checking in the Coq proof assistant by using reflection. It also gives us, by Coq's extraction mechanism, certified BDD algorithms implemented in Caml. We also implement and prove correct a garbage collector for our implementation of BDDs inside Coq. Our experiments show that this approach works in practice, and is able to solve both relatively hard propositional problems and actual industrial hardware verification tasks.

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