Unveiling the ISCAS-85 Benchmarks: A Case Study in Reverse Engineering

  • Authors:
  • Mark C. Hansen;Hakan Yalcin;John P. Hayes

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Design & Test
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Digital designers normally proceed from behavioral specification to logic circuit; rarely do they need to go in the reverse direction. One such situation is examined here: recovering the high-level specifications of a popular set of benchmark logic circuits. The authors present their methodology and experience in reverse engineering the ISCAS-85 circuits. They also discuss a few of the practical uses of the resulting high-level benchmarks and make them available for other researchers to use.