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DAC
1994
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Optimum Functional Decomposition Using Encoding
In this paper, we revisit the classical problem of functional decomposition [1, 2] that arises so often in logic synthesis. One basic problem that has remained largely unaddressed...
Rajeev Murgai, Robert K. Brayton, Alberto L. Sangi...
DAC
1994
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
New Techniques for Efficient Verification with Implicitly Conjoined BDDs
-- In previous work, Hu and Dill identified a common cause of BDD-size blowup in high-level design verification and proposed the method of implicitly conjoined invariants to addres...
Alan J. Hu, Gary York, David L. Dill
DAC
1994
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Probabilistic Analysis of Large Finite State Machines
Regarding nite state machines as Markov chains facilitates the application of probabilistic methods to very large logic synthesis and formal veri cation problems. Recently, we ha...
Gary D. Hachtel, Enrico Macii, Abelardo Pardo, Fab...
DAC
1994
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Statistical Estimation of the Switching Activity in Digital Circuits
Higher levels of integration have led to a generation of integrated circuits for which power dissipation and reliability are major design concerns. In CMOS circuits, both of these ...
Michael G. Xakellis, Farid N. Najm
DAC
1994
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Permissible Observability Relations in FSM Networks
Previous attempts to capture the phenomenon of output don't care sequencesfor a componentin an FSM network have been incomplete. We demonstrate that output don't care se...
Huey-Yih Wang, Robert K. Brayton
DAC
1994
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Minimal Delay Interconnect Design Using Alphabetic Trees
Abstract - We propose a new algorithm for the performancedriven interconnect design problem, based on alphabetic trees. The interconnect topology is determined in a global manner a...
Ashok Vittal, Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska
DAC
1994
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Functional Test Generation for FSMs by Fault Extraction
Recent results indicate that functional test pattern generation (TPG) techniques may provide better defect coverages than do traditional logic-level techniques. Functional TPG alg...
Bapiraju Vinnakota, Jason Andrews
DAC
1994
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Memory Estimation for High Level Synthesis
Abstract -- This paper describes a new memory estimation technique for DSP applications written in an applicative language. Since no concept of storage is present in an applicative...
Ingrid Verbauwhede, Chris J. Scheers, Jan M. Rabae...
DAC
1994
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Exact and Approximate Methods for Calculating Signal and Transition Probabilities in FSMs
In this paper, we consider the problem of calculating the signal and transition probabilities of the internal nodes of the combinational logic part of a nite state machine (FSM). ...
Chi-Ying Tsui, Massoud Pedram, Alvin M. Despain
DAC
1994
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Boolean Matching Using Generalized Reed-Muller Forms
-- In this paper we present a new method for Boolean matching of completely specified Boolean functions. The canonical Generalized Reed-Muller forms are used as a powerful analysis...
Chien-Chung Tsai, Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska