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FLATA is a toolset for the manipulation and the analysis of non-deterministic integer programs (also known as counter automata). The main functionalities of FLATA are:

  • reachability anaylysis -- deciding if an error state of a non-recursive programs is reachable from an initial state
  • termination analysis -- computation of termination preconditions for non-recursive programs
  • summarization for recursive programs -- computation of summaries of recursive programs

The input to the tool is a textual description of a counter automaton (see examples below), essentially a control flow .


Download

FLATA is a free software under LGPL license. The current distribution of FLATA is available here: flata.tgz

A good way to get started using FLATA is to go through one of the examples (a subset of NTS benchmarks that FLATA can veriify) linked here: benchmarks.tgz


Installation

Prerequisites:

  • JAVA version 1.6.0 or later
  • YICES has to be installed in your executable path
  • ANTLR and NTS has to be installed in your JAVA classpath

Run FLATA as e.g.

Template:Java -classpath flata.jar:nts.jar:antlr-3.2.jar verimag.flata.Main VHDL/synlifo.correct.nts

See the README file for further information.


Documentation

The following papers are related to the FLATA project:

- M. Bozga, R. Iosif and F. Konecny. [{Fast Acceleration of Ultimately Periodic Relations}->http://www-verimag.imag.fr/TR/TR-2010-3.pdf] VERIMAG TR-2010-3

- M. Bozga, C. Girlea and R. Iosif. [{Iterating Octagons}->http://www-verimag.imag.fr/%7Eiosif/papers/tacas09.ps] TACAS 2009

- M. Bozga, R. Iosif and Y. Lakhnech [{Flat Parametric Counter Automata}->http://www-verimag.imag.fr/%7Eiosif/papers/fundamenta09.ps] Fundamenta Informaticae, Volume 91 (2), 275 - 303, IOS Press (2009)

A white paper describing the functionalities of the toolset, and including a detailed description of the input syntax and options will be coming soon.


Extensions

It is possible to use FLATA in order to solve the satisfiability problem for Template:SIL (Singly Indexed Logic), a logic used to specify properties of integer arrays. The extension can be downloaded here:

- [flata-with-sil jar file->http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~ikonecny/flata/sil.tgz] - [sil-examples.tar.gz->http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~ikonecny/flata/sil-examples.tgz]

A description of the SIL logic and its applications can be found in the following papers:

- P. Habermehl, R. Iosif, T. Vojnar. [{A Logic of Singly Indexed Arrays}->http://www-verimag.imag.fr/%7Eiosif/papers/lpar08.ps] LPAR'08

- M. Bozga, P. Habermehl, R. Iosif, F. Konecny, T. Vojnar. [{Automatic Verification of Integer Array Programs}->http://www-verimag.imag.fr/%7Eiosif/papers/cav09.ps] CAV'09


Contributors


Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the French national project ANR-09-SEGI-016 VERIDYC, by the Czech Science Foundation (projects P103/10/0306 and 102/09/H042), the Czech Ministry of Education (projects COST OC10009 and MSM 0021630528), and the internal FIT BUT grant FIT-S-10-1.


References

<ref name="cav10">[seplogic.pdf Fast Acceleration of Ultimately Periodic Relations.] M. Bozga, R. Iosif, and F. Konecny. In Proc. of CAV'10, volume 6174 of LNCS, pages 227-242, 2010. Springer-Verlag. </ref>

<ref name="tacas12">[seplogic.pdf Deciding Conditional Termination.] M. Bozga, R. Iosif, and F. Konecny. In Proc. of TACAS'12, volume 7214 of LNCS, pages 252-266, 2012. Springer-Verlag. </ref>

<ref name="tacas13">[seplogic.pdf Underapproximation of Procedure Summaries for Integer Programs.] P. Ganty, R. Iosif and F. Konecny. In Proc. of TACAS'13. To appear. </ref>

<ref name="fm12">[seplogic.pdf A Verification Toolkit for Numerical Transition Systems.] H. Hojjat, R. Iosif, F. Konecny, V. Kuncak, and P. Rummer. In Proc. of FM'12, volume 7436 of LNCS, pages 247-251, 2012. Springer-Verlag. </ref>

<ref name="tacas13">[seplogic.pdf Accelerating Interpolants.] P. Ganty, R. Iosif and F. Konecny. In Proc. of ATVA'12, volume 7561 of LNCS, pages 187-202, 2012. Springer-Verlag. </ref>

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