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- Patent Title: Optimizing a netlist circuit representation by leveraging binary decision diagrams to perform rewriting
- Patent Title (中): 通过利用二进制决策图执行重写来优化网表电路表示
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Application No.: US12197980Application Date: 2008-08-25
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Publication No.: US08799837B2Publication Date: 2014-08-05
- Inventor: Jason Baumgartner , Geert Janssen , Robert Kanzelman , Viresh Paruthi
- Applicant: Jason Baumgartner , Geert Janssen , Robert Kanzelman , Viresh Paruthi
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Brevetto Law Group
- Main IPC: G06F17/50
- IPC: G06F17/50

Abstract:
Leveraging existing Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) to enhance circuit reductions in a system model representing a state machine as a netlist. The netlist is evaluated to determine the regions with the greatest potential reductions. BDD sweeping is performed to identify redundancies in the netlist. BDD rewriting implements the circuit reductions by replacing gates of the original netlist with more efficient equivalent logic.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100050145A1 Optimizing a Netlist Circuit Representation by Leveraging Binary Decision Diagrams to Perform Rewriting Public/Granted day:2010-02-25
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