Technology-independenttimingoptimizationis animportantproblem in logic synthesis. Although many promising techniques have been proposed in the past, unfortunately they are quite s...
A simple extension of the critical path method is presented which allows more accurate optimization of circuits with level-sensitive latches. The extended formulation provides a s...
Abstract-- SAT sweeping is the process of merging two or more functionally equivalent nodes in a circuit by selecting one of them to represent all the other equivalent nodes. This ...
Stephen Plaza, Kai-Hui Chang, Igor L. Markov, Vale...
In program debugging, finding a failing run is only the first step; what about correcting the fault? Can we automate the second task as well as the first? The AutoFix-E tool au...
Yi Wei, Yu Pei, Carlo A. Furia, Lucas S. Silva, St...
Recent technology mappers for LUT based FPGAs employ cut enumeration. Although many cuts are often needed to nd good network, enumerating all cuts with large size consumes run-tim...