HermesBDD is a novel multi-core and multi-platform binary decision diagrams package focused on high performance and usability. HermesBDD supports a static and dynamic memory management mechanism, the possibility to exploit lock-free hash tables, and a simple parallel implementation of the ITE procedure based on a higher-level wrapper for threads and futures.

For more information, progress reports, and more, please visit the HermesBDD home page.

HermesBDD has the following dependencies:

• CMake (mandatory), for compiling;
• Sphinx (optional), for documentation generation.

For further information about CMake and Sphinx, check the following 1 and 2 documentation pages, respectively.

The library is tested for compilation using GCC (minimum required: 10.2), Clang (minimum required: 11.0), and MSVC (minimum required: 19.20). To build the library from sources in a clean way, it is preferable that you set up a build subdirectory, say:

$ mkdir build && cd build

Then, you can prepare the built environment, choosing a Release build for maximum performance:

$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

At this point, if no error arises, you can build with:

$ cmake --build .

To install the library globally from built sources, you must do:

$ cmake --build . --target install

using sudo if you require administrator privileges for a Linux installation. Please note that the installation will build the whole distribution beforehand, hence it is preferable that you first build the other targets without administrator privileges, build the install target.

To find the installed library under Ubuntu, you may need to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the .bashrc file of your home directory:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

Available options are:

HermesBDD is not yet feature-complete, and there are still many interesting things left for you to do. So, this project welcomes contributions and suggestions. If you would like to contribute to HermesBDD, or do an internship or thesis, please contact the authors.

The software files in this repository are provided under the MIT License.

Luigi Capogrosso, Luca Geretti, Marco Cristani, Franco Fummi, Tiziano Villa

Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Italy

[email protected]

If you use HermesBDD, please, cite the following paper:

@inproceedings{capogrosso2023hermesbdd,
  title={HermesBDD: A Multi-Core and Multi-Platform Binary Decision Diagram Package},
  author={Capogrosso, Luigi and Geretti, Luca and Cristani, Marco and Fummi, Franco and Villa, Tiziano},
  booktitle={2023 26th International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS)},
  pages={87--90},
  year={2023},
  organization={IEEE}
}