Here is a summary of the contents of this directory, which contains books that
exercise the BDD (ordered Binary Decision Diagram) capability of ACL2.

Makefile		Makefile for certifying books in this directory on
			systems (like Unix) supporting make.

certify.lsp  		File for certifying books in this directory.  See the
			comment on init.lsp at the end of this README file.

bdd-primitives.lisp	Definitions and simple theorems pertaining to some
			basic functions used for hardware specification.  This
			file may well be useful for doing hardware verification
			in ACL2 using BDDs, and it also provides examples of
			the sorts of rules used in our approach.  (See also the
			ACL2 documentation on "BDD".)

alu.lisp		Specifications of an ALU:  a simple ripple-carry alu
			(v-alu) and a tree-structured propagate-generate alu
			(core-alu)

alu-proofs.lisp		Proofs of equivalence of ALUs defined in alu.lisp,
			employing BDDs

bool-ops.lisp		Definitions of Boolean AND, OR, and XOR functions, and
			theorems stating their commutativity

cbf.lisp		A file used to generate ACL2 theorems to prove from the
			IFIP benchmarks

hamming.lisp		A proof using BDDs of the equivalence of a Hamming
			circuit used in the CAP chip with its specification

pg-theory.lisp		Proofs using BDDs of equivalence of adder
			specifications; very similar in nature (but not
			actually connected with) alu.lisp and alu-proofs.lisp

bit-vector-reader.lsp	Raw Lisp file (NOT a book!) supporting #v syntax for
			bit vectors, as explained in a comment in that file.

When you certify the books in this directory, the file cbf.lisp will
automatically create the file

benchmarks.lisp

corresponding to the IFIP benchmarks in the subdirectories

be/cath
be/ex

which will then be certified.

ACL2 performs better on large BDD problems in GCL when large spaces are
allocated for conses, fixnums and symbols.  If you are running on a machine
that has 128 MB of RAM then the following setting work well:

#+gcl
(si::allocate 'cons 20000 t)
#+gcl
(si::allocate 'fixnum 4000 t)
#+gcl
(si::allocate 'symbol 500 t)

One convenient way to achieve these settings on such a machine is to write the
six lines above into a file named init.lsp on this directory.  That file is
automatically loaded when GCL is fired up.