• DocumentCode
    1822247
  • Title

    Sympathy: fast exact minimization of fixed polarity Reed-Muller expressions for symmetric functions

  • Author

    Drechsler, Rolf ; Becker, Bernd

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Frankfurt Univ., Germany
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    6-9 Mar 1995
  • Firstpage
    91
  • Lastpage
    97
  • Abstract
    In this paper a polynomial time algorithm for the minimization of Fixed Polarity Reed-Muller Expressions (FPRMs) for totally symmetric functions based on Ordered Functional Decision Diagrams (OFDDs) is presented. A generalization to partially symmetric functions is investigated. The algorithm has been implemented as the program Sympathy. Experimental results in comparison to previously published methods are given to show the efficiency of the approach
  • Keywords
    Reed-Muller codes; VLSI; logic CAD; minimisation of switching nets; Sympathy program; VLSI; fixed polarity Reed-Muller expressions; logic synthesis; ordered functional decision diagrams; partially symmetric functions; polynomial time algorithm; totally symmetric functions; Arithmetic; Boolean functions; Circuit synthesis; Circuit testing; Computer science; Error correction; Field programmable gate arrays; Minimization methods; Polynomials; Very large scale integration;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    European Design and Test Conference, 1995. ED&TC 1995, Proceedings.
  • Conference_Location
    Paris
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-7039-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EDTC.1995.470414
  • Filename
    470414