• DocumentCode
    2306827
  • Title

    Efficient solution of systems of Boolean equations

  • Author

    Woods, S. ; Casinovi, G.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    10-14 Nov. 1996
  • Firstpage
    542
  • Lastpage
    546
  • Abstract
    This paper describes an algorithm for the efficient solution of large systems of Boolean equations. The algorithm exploits the fact that, in some cases, the composition operation of Boolean functions represented by BDD´s can be performed in a very efficient manner. Thus, the algorithm tries to eliminate as many variables and equations as possible through function composition. When the system can no longer be reduced in this way, the elimination process is continued through the use of Shannon decomposition. Numerical results show that the performance of this algorithm is significantly superior to that of a previous algorithm proposed by the authors.
  • Keywords
    Boolean functions; computability; Boolean equations system; Boolean functions; Shannon decomposition; composition operation; function composition; numerical results; performance; Analytical models; Automatic testing; Boolean functions; Circuit synthesis; Circuit testing; Data structures; Equations; Flow graphs; Network synthesis; Telecommunication computing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer-Aided Design, 1996. ICCAD-96. Digest of Technical Papers., 1996 IEEE/ACM International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-7597-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCAD.1996.569908
  • Filename
    569908