A rule-based circuit representation for automated CMOS design and verification

  • Authors:
  • C.-F. E. Wu;A. S. Wojcik;L. M. Ni

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI;Department of Computer Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI;Department of Computer Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

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

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Abstract

A novel rule-based circuit representation is proposed to describe the connectivities of CMOS circuits at the transistor level. The unique feature of the rule-based representation is its ability to automate CMOS circuit design and verification. A precise symbolic description of the functionality of a transistor-level circuit can be derived based on a set of production rules in linear time. Automated synthesis and verification of CMOS logic circuits are demonstrated.