Multilevel logic synthesis of very high complexity circuits

Abstract

This paper presents an approach based on ROBDD representation for multilevel logic synthesis. This approach makes it possible to handle very high complexity circuits that cannot be synthesized by the classical factorization algorithms. Two important algorithms are used. The former generates a multilevel expression from an ROBDD. The latter builds a minimal ROBDD from the two ROBDDs representing an incompletely specified Boolean function. This approach is implemented in the logic synthesis software LOGIC developed as part of the ALLIANCE CAD package.<>