1. PAT: Getting started

2. Outline What is PAT? Installation System Components
Editor
Simulator
Model Checkers
System Architecture
Language Syntax
Example Demonstration QA

3. What is PAT?
Process Analysis Toolkit: an enhanced Simulator, Model Checker for concurrent systems
Visualized simulation,
Full LTL model checking (under fairness),
Refinement checking (behaviors + data).
Website
Download (Demo)
Register your information
Download the latest version installation file

4. Installation System Requirements Installation
OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2000/2003/2008.
.NET Framework 2.0
Installation
Follow the installation wizard.
Update and Un-installation
Automatic update
Easy un-installation from program list

5. System Components
Editor: user friendly editing environment featured with
Syntax highlight
Text editing: copy/paste, find/replace, (un)comments…
Multi-documents
Simulator
Step by Step simulator
State space generation (up to 300 states)
Trace replace
Model Checker
Deadlock freeness
Reachability testing
LTL property checking (with fairness assumptions)
Refinement checking

6. System Architecture

7. Language Syntax Process definitions
CSP Based language extended with variables. (F1 help in PAT)
Process definitions
Stop
Skip
Event prefixing
Assignments
Channel output/input
Sequential composition
External/Internal choice
Conditional choice
Case
Guarded process
Interleaving
Parallel composition
Interrupt
Hiding
Selecting
Recursion
Global definitions:
Constants
Variables/arrays
Channels
Propositions
Expressions
Integer / Boolean variables
Math operators: +, -, *, /, mod, >, <, ==, !=
Logic operators: &&, ||
If-then-else
while loop
User defined methods in C#
Assertion
Deadlock-freeness
Reachability
LTL
Refinement/equivalence

8. Demonstration

9. FAQ