spot/iface/nips/nips_vm/README
Guillaume Sadegh bc5f13bb4e NIPS VM added to the SPOT distribution.
2008-05-29  Guillaume SADEGH  <sadegh@lrde.epita.fr>

	* iface/nips/nips.cc, iface/nips/nips.hh, iface/nips/common.cc,
	iface/nips/common.hh, iface/nips/Makefile.am: TGBA implementation
	with the NIPS library.
	* iface/nips/emptiness_check.cc: Emptiness check on a Promela
	interface.
	* iface/nips/dottynips.cc: Dot printer on the NIPS interface.
	* iface/nips/compile.sh: Add. Wrapper around nips compiler to
	compile Promela to NIPS bytecode.
	* iface/nips/nips_vm,iface/nips/nips_vm/bytecode.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/ChangeLog, iface/nips/nips_vm/COPYING,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/hashtab.c, iface/nips/nips_vm/hashtab.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/INSTALL, iface/nips/nips_vm/instr.c,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/instr.h, iface/nips/nips_vm/instr_step.c,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/instr_step.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/instr_tools.c,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/instr_tools.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/instr_wrap.c,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/instr_wrap.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/interactive.c,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/interactive.h, iface/nips/nips_vm/main.c,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/Makefile, iface/nips/nips_vm/Makefile.am,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/nips_asm_help.pl,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/nips_asm_instr.pl,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/nips_asm.pl,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/nips_disasm.pl, iface/nips/nips_vm/nipsvm.c,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/nipsvm.h, iface/nips/nips_vm/README,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/rt_err.c, iface/nips/nips_vm/rt_err.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/search.c, iface/nips/nips_vm/search.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/split.c, iface/nips/nips_vm/split.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/state.c, iface/nips/nips_vm/state.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/state_inline.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/state_parts.c,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/state_parts.h, iface/nips/nips_vm/timeval.h,
	iface/nips/nips_vm/tools.h: NIPS VM added to the SPOT
	distribution.
	* configure.ac, iface/Makefile.am: Build system updated for the
	NIPS front-end.
2008-05-30 13:22:00 +02:00

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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
======================
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
============
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
===============
compilation
-----------
make
running an example
------------------
cd tests
make
make example
running some tests
------------------
make benchmark
cd ..
assembling own files
--------------------
./nips_asm.pl mycode.s
running interactive / random simulations
----------------------------------------
./nips_vm [-R] mycode.b
generating full state space with breadth first / depth first search
-------------------------------------------------------------------
./nips_vm {-B|-D 30} mycode.b
other features
--------------
./nips_vm --help
benchmarking against SPIN
-------------------------
# ensure that NIPS C is installed in ../nips_c/
cd tests/spin
./Benchmark