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- From: preston@dawn.cs.rice.edu (Preston Briggs)
- Subject: Re: Logic Minimization Algorithms
- Message-ID: <BzBCMC.332@rice.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec15.024904.22554@amd.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:27:47 GMT
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- roberts@angelo.amd.com (Dave Roberts) writes:
- >
- >I couldn't think of a more appropriate news group to post this in
-
- comp.compilers comes to mind :-)
-
- >What sort of algorithms are typically used to minimize logic equations
- >specified in high level hardware description languages (PAL software,
- >Verilog, etc.)?
- >[...]
- >So I guess my question is, how are these problems overcome? Do people
- >use other algorithms than Quine-McClusky instead that don't suffer
- >these problems? If so, what are they?
- >
- >Does someone have references of articles that describe this stuff?
-
- Here's one, which has many pointers further back.
-
- author="Kurt Keutzer and Wayne Wolf",
- title="Anatomy of a Hardware Compiler",
- pages="95--104",
- journal=sigplan,
- year=1988,
- month=jul,
- volume=23,
- number=7
-
- It's in the Proceedings of the SIGPLAN '88 Conference on
- Programming Language Design and Implementation.
-
- Preston Briggs
-