Identifying High-Level Components in Combinational Circuits

Authors

Travis E. Doom, Wright State University - Main CampusFollow
Jennifer L. White
Anthony S. Wojcik
Greg Chisholm

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2-1998

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Abstract

The problem of finding meaningful subcircuits in a logic layout appears in many contexts in computer-aided design. Existing techniques rely upon finding exact matchings of subcircuit structure within the layout. These syntactic techniques fail to identify functionally equivalent subcircuits which are differently implemented optimized, or otherwise obfuscated. We present a mechanism for identifying functionally equivalent subcircuits which is capable of overcoming many of these limitations. Such semantic matching is particularly useful in the field of design recovery.

Comments

Presented at the 8th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, Lafayette, LA, February 19-21, 1998.

Repository Citation

Doom, T. E., White, J. L., Wojcik, A. S., & Chisholm, G. (1998). Identifying High-Level Components in Combinational Circuits. Proceedings of the 8th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 313-318.
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DOI

10.1109/GLSV.1998.665284