Symbolic modeling of a universal reconfigurable logic gate and its applications to circuit synthesis

  • Authors:
  • Paul Tarau;Brenda Luderman

  • Affiliations:
  • University of North Texas;Texas Instruments Inc.

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Research in Applied Computation Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

With the help of a simple reconfigurable logic gate that emulates conjunction, implication and a 1-bit memory cell, we devise a mechanism for synthesizing fine grained circuits that overlap multiple logic functions. The use of the gate as an integrated combinational and sequential logic building block enables processor architectures that naturally avoid the von Neumann bottleneck and support fine grained parallel execution. A symbolic model of the approach, including an exact synthesizer for small circuits, is provided as a literate Haskell program, available from http://logic.csci.unt.edu/tarau/research/2012/fsyn.hs.