Title
A rule-based logic circuit synthesis system for CMOS gate arrays
Abstract
This paper presents a CMOS gate-array version of Digital System Design Language/Synthesis eXpert (DDL/SX), a rule-based system for logic circuit synthesis. The system inputs technology-independent functional diagrams, and automatically generates conventional technology-dependent logic diagrams in order to eliminate time-consuming and error-prone tasks in logic design. Because the synthesis process was not clear enough to establish a fixed algorithm, a rule-based approach was adopted to develop the system. This approach made it easy to incrementally improve the system's capabilities by adding, modifying, or deleting design knowledge represented as rules. Experimental use of the system revealed that the automatically generated logic design is almost as good as a manual design, and the design time is reduced by a factor of four.
Year
DOI
Venue
1986
10.1145/318013.318109
DAC
Keywords
Field
DocType
rule-based logic circuit synthesis,deleting design knowledge,synthesis process,manual design,rule-based system,synthesis expert,system input,design time,logic design,logic circuit synthesis,conventional technology-dependent logic diagram,cmos gate array,knowledge based systems,logic circuits,rule based system,cmos technology,random testing,rule based
Logic synthesis,Logic gate,Sequential logic,Pass transistor logic,Computer science,Logic optimization,Logic analyzer,Electronic engineering,Register-transfer level,Logic family,Computer engineering
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-8186-0702-5
2
0.72
References 
Authors
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takao Saito13324.81
Hiroyuki Sugimoto220.72
Masami Yamazaki320.72
Nobuaki Kawato410579.03