Mesh arrays and LOGICIAN: a tool for their efficient generation

  • Authors:
  • J. A. Beekman;R. M. Owens;M. J. Irwin

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA;Department of Computer Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA;Department of Computer Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

  • Venue:
  • DAC '87 Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

This paper introduces a standard structure for VLSI design which we call the mesh array and describes a design tool called LOGICIAN which minimizes a set of functions for realization in CMOS mesh arrays. LOGICIAN features multi-level logic synthesis through recursive enumeration of each function. Several techniques to speed-up the minimization process in LOGICIAN are described.