Constructive library-aware synthesis using symmetries
DATE '00 Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
Logic Synthesis and Verification
Resynthesis of multi-level circuits under tight constraints using symbolic optimization
Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Implicit enumeration of structural changes in circuit optimization
Proceedings of the 41st annual Design Automation Conference
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This paper presents an aggressive optimization technique targeting combinational logic circuits. Starting from an initial implementation mapped on a given technology library, the network is optimized by finding optimal replacements to clusters of two or more cells at the same time. We leverage a generalized matching algorithm that finds symbolically all possible matching assignments of library cells to a multioutput network specified by a Boolean relation and automatically selects the minimum cost replacement. The remapping technique can be applied to area minimization under delay constraints, power minimization under delay constraints, and unconstrained delay minimization. Our remapping tool is based on a fully symbolic algorithm geared toward flexibility and robustness. The tool has been tested on a large set of benchmark circuits. The quality of the results proves the practical relevance of the technique. We obtain sizable improvements in (i) speed (6% in average, up to 20.7%), (ii) area under speed constraints (13.7% in average, up to 29.5%), and (iii) power under speed constraints (22.3% in average, up to 38.1%)