Minimization over Boolean graphs

  • Authors:
  • J. Paul Roth;R. M. Karp

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IBM Journal of Research and Development
  • Year:
  • 1962

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Abstract

This paper presents a systematic procedure for thed esign of gate-type combinational switching circuits without diredted loops. Each such circuit (Boolean graph) is in correspondence with a sequence of decompositions of the Boolean function which it realizes. A general approach to functional decomposition i s given and, in terms oaf convenient positional representation, efficient tests for the detection of decompositions are derived. These results are employed in the development of an alphabetic search procedure for determining minimum-cost Boolean graphs which satisfy any given design specifications.