Title :
Arithmetic Circuits Verification without Looking for Internal Equivalences
Author :
Sarbishei, O. ; Alizadeh, B. ; Fujita, Masahiro
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Sharif Univ. of Technol., Tehran
Abstract :
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to extract a network of half adders from the gate-level net-list of an addition circuit while no internal equivalences exist. The technique begins with a gate-level net-list and tries to map it into word-level adders based on an efficient bit-level adder representation. It will be shown that the proposed technique is suitable for several gate-level architectures of multipliers, as it extracts adder components in a step-wise method. This approach can also be generalized to other arithmetic circuits. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of our approach, we run it on several arithmetic circuits and compare experimental results with those of contemporary techniques.
Keywords :
adders; digital arithmetic; multiplying circuits; system-on-chip; addition circuit; arithmetic circuits verification; bit-level adder representation; gate-level net-list; half adders; step-wise method; word-level adders; Adders; Arithmetic; Circuit simulation; Difference equations; Educational technology; Formal verification; Optimization methods; Robustness; System-on-a-chip; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Formal Methods and Models for Co-Design, 2008. MEMOCODE 2008. 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2417-7
DOI :
10.1109/MEMCOD.2008.4547681