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RuleBase: an industry-oriented formal verification tool

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Annual ACM IEEE Design Automation Conference archive
Proceedings of the 33rd annual Design Automation Conference table of contents

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Pages: 655 - 660

Year of Publication: 1996

ISBN:0-89791-779-0

Authors

Ilan Beer	IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Haifa, Israel
Shoham Ben-David	IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Haifa, Israel
Cindy Eisner	IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Haifa, Israel
Avner Landver	IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Haifa, Israel

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IEEE-CAS : Circuits & Systems
SIGDA: ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation
EDAC : Electronic Design Automation Consortium

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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