Getting Started

• SMV is installed in /p/bin/. To run SMV, you need to prepare an SMV file, e.g. yadda.smv, and then type "smv yadda.smv".
• Look over Ken McMillan's manual, "The SMV System (draft)." It will tell you the correct format for an SMV file. BEWARE: the manual has typos and omissions, if not more substantial mistakes.
• The correct syntax for an "until" formula uses square brackets. To get E(p U q), you must type in E[p U q]. The manual does NOT tell you this.

A Few Exercises

• Draw Kripke strutures for the examples on pages 2 and 3 of McMillan's manual. Are you certain you have accounted for all transitions? Find CTL formulas to check whether your transitions are correct and run them in SMV to verify.
• Represent the microwave example from class in SMV. Check the CTL formulas from the handout using SMV.