In this paper we present a tool which operates as a pre- and postprocessor for RTL property checking and simplifies word-level
specifications before verification, thus speeding up property checking runtimes and allowing larger design sizes to be verified.
The basic idea is to scale down design sizes by exploiting word-level information. BooStER implements a new technique which
computes a one-to-one RTL abstraction of a digital design in which the widths of word-level signals are reduced with respect
to a property, i.e. the property holds for the abstract RTL if and only if it holds for the original RTL. The property checking
task is completely carried out on the scaled-down version of the design. If the property fails then the tool computes counterexamples
for the original RTL from counterexamples found on the reduced model.