On the Time-Bandwidth Proof in VLSI Complexity

  • Authors:
  • Y. S. Abu-Mostafa

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

A subtle fallacy in the original proof [1] that the computation time T is lowerbounded by a factor inversely proportional to the minimum bisection width of a VLSI chip is pointed out. A corrected version of the proof using the idea of conditionally self-delimiting messages is given.