NIPS VM - New Implementation of Promela Semantics Virtual Machine
Copyright (C) 2005: Stefan Schuermans <stefan@schuermans.info>
Michael Weber <michaelw@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
Lehrstuhl fuer Informatik II, RWTH Aachen
Copyleft: GNU public license - http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
very short description
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NIPS VM is a non-deterministic virtual machine
to be used for state space generation in model checkers.
For more information, see:
Stefan Schuermans, Ein Compiler und eine Virtuelle Maschine
zur Zustandsraumgenerierung, Dimplomarbeit, Lehrstuhl II fuer
Informatik RWTH Aachen, Oktober 2005
(available only in German)
For a description of the assembler and bytecode format, see:
assembler_format.txt
bytecode_format.txt
dependencies
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GNU make 3.80
GNU C Compiler: gcc 3.3
C runtime library: libc 2.3 (at least libc 2.1)
perl 5.8.4
(NIPS C 1.2+)
versions given are known to work - other may work, too
getting started
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compilation
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make
running an example
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cd tests
make
make example
running some tests
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make benchmark
cd ..
assembling own files
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./nips_asm.pl mycode.s
running interactive / random simulations
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./nips_vm [-R] mycode.b
generating full state space with breadth first / depth first search
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./nips_vm {-B|-D 30} mycode.b
other features
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./nips_vm --help
benchmarking against SPIN
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# ensure that NIPS C is installed in ../nips_c/
cd tests/spin
./Benchmark
0785d729d5