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Spot: a platform for LTL and ω-automata manipulation

Spot is a C++11 library for LTL, ω-automata manipulation and model checking. It has the following notable features:

  • Support for LTL (several syntaxes supported) and the linear fragment of PSL.
  • Support for ω-automata with arbitrary acceptance condition.
  • Support for transition-based acceptance (state-based acceptance is supported by a reduction to transition-based acceptance).
  • The automaton parser can read a stream of automata written in any of four syntaxes (HOA, never claims, LBTT, DSTAR).
  • Several algorithms for formula manipulation including: simplifying formulas, testing implication or equivalence, testing stutter-invariance, removing some operators by rewriting, translation to automata…
  • Several algorithms for automata manipulation including: product, emptiness checks, simulation-based reductions, minimization of weak-DBA, removal of useless SCCs, acceptance-condition transformations, determinization, etc.
  • In addition to the C++ interface, most of its algorithms are usable via command-line tools, and via Python bindings.
  • One command-line tool, called ltlcross, is a rewrite of LBTT, but with support for PSL and automata with arbitrary acceptance conditions. It can be used to test tools that translate LTL into ω-automata, or benchmark them.

Latest version

The latest version is {{{LASTRELEASE}}} and was released on {{{LASTDATE}}}. Please see the download and installation instructions.

Try Spot On-line

  • Our on-line translator provides a convenient way to translate LTL or PSL formulas into automata.
  • spot-sandbox is a Jupyter notebook with a complete installation of Spot that allows you to try the command-line tools (using a shell interface) as well as the Python bindings (in an IPython notebook).

License

Spot is distributed under a GNU GPL v3 license.

A consequence is that if you distribute a tool built using Spot, you must make the source code of that tool available as well.

Staying in touch

spot-announce@lrde.epita.fr is an extremely low-traffic and read-only mailing list for release announcements. If you want to stay informed about future releases of Spot, we invite you to subscribe.

spot@lrde.epita.fr is a list for general discussions and questions about Spot. Subscribe here if you want to join, but feel free to send in any question (in English) or bug report without subscribing.