Bounded model checking recast finite-depth verification as Boolean satisfiability, using rapidly improving SAT solvers to find deep counterexamples without constructing a global symbolic state representation.
Model checking combined temporal logic with exhaustive state-space algorithms, allowing finite-state hardware and software designs to be checked automatically and failures returned as counterexamples.
TLA+ combines state-transition modeling, temporal logic and model checking so engineers can find concurrency and distributed-system design errors before implementation.