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On Logic Synthesis of Conventionally Hard to Synthesize Circuits Using Genetic Programming

FIŠER Petr, SCHMIDT Jan, VAŠÍČEK Zdeněk and SEKANINA Lukáš. On Logic Synthesis of Conventionally Hard to Synthesize Circuits Using Genetic Programming. In: Proc. of the 13th Int. IEEE Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems. Vienna: IEEE Computer Society, 2010, pp. 346-351. ISBN 978-1-4244-6610-8.
Czech title
O logické syntéze konvenčně obtížně syntetizovatelných obvodů pomocí genetického programování
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
Fišer Petr, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (FIT CTU)
Schmidt Jan, doc. Ing. (FIT CTU)
Vašíček Zdeněk, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DCSY FIT BUT)
Sekanina Lukáš, prof. Ing., Ph.D. (DCSY FIT BUT)
Keywords

digital circuit, logic synthesis, cartesian genetic programming 

Abstract

Recently, it has been shown that synthesis of some circuits is quite difficult for conventional methods. In this paper we present a method of minimization of multi-level logic networks which can solve these difficult circuit instances. The synthesis problem is transformed on the search problem. A search algorithm called Cartesian genetic programming (CGP) is applied to synthesize various difficult circuits. Conventional circuit synthesis usually fails for these difficult circuits; specific synthesis processes must be employed to obtain satisfactory results. We have found that CGP is able to implicitly discover new efficient circuit structures. Thus, it is able to optimize circuits universally, regardless their structure. The circuit optimization by CGP has been found especially efficient when applied to circuits already optimized by a conventional synthesis. The total runtime is reduced, while the result quality is improved further more.

Published
2010
Pages
346-351
Proceedings
Proc. of the 13th Int. IEEE Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems
Conference
IEEE International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems 2010, Vienna, AT
ISBN
978-1-4244-6610-8
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
Place
Vienna, AT
BibTeX 
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB9199,
   author = "Petr Fi\v{s}er and Jan Schmidt and Zden\v{e}k Va\v{s}\'{i}\v{c}ek and Luk\'{a}\v{s} Sekanina",
   title = "On Logic Synthesis of Conventionally Hard to Synthesize Circuits Using Genetic Programming",
   pages = "346--351",
   booktitle = "Proc. of the 13th Int. IEEE Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems",
   year = 2010,
   location = "Vienna, AT",
   publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
   ISBN = "978-1-4244-6610-8",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/9199"
}
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