Achieving design closure is one of the biggest headaches for modern VLSI designers. This problem is exacerbated by high-level design automation tools that ignore increasingly impo...
Zhenyu (Peter) Gu, Jia Wang, Robert P. Dick, Hai Z...
We discuss fault equivalence and dominance relations for multiple output combinational circuits. The conventional definition for equivalence says that “Two faults are equivalen...
BDDs have proven to be an efficient means to represent and manipulate Boolean formulae [1] and sets [2] due to their compactness and canonicality. In this work, we leverage the eff...
Much attention has been given in recent years to the problem of finding Minimally Unsatisfiable Subformulas (MUSes) of Boolean formulas. In this paper, we present a new view of the...
In this paper we develop a theory of equivalence checking (EC) and logic synthesis of circuits with a common specification (CS). We show that two combinational circuits N1, N2 have...