DocumentCode
452026
Title
Auxiliary Variables for Extending Symbolic Traversal Techniques to Data Paths
Author
Cabodi, Gianpiero ; Camurati, Paolo ; Quer, Stefano
Author_Institution
Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Turin, Italy
fYear
1994
fDate
6-10 June 1994
Firstpage
289
Lastpage
293
Abstract
Symbolic state space traversal techniques are best on control-dominated circuits, not on data paths. This paper extends their applicability to data paths. We use auxiliary variables to decompose Boolean functions and to manipulate them in decomposed form. Experimental results demonstrate the gain both in terms of BDD size and CPU time.
Keywords
Binary decision diagrams; Boolean functions; Central Processing Unit; Circuits; State-space methods;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Design Automation, 1994. 31st Conference on
ISSN
0738-100X
Print_ISBN
0-89791-653-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/DAC.1994.204113
Filename
1600386
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