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1991 European Design Automation Conference report

1991 European Design Automation Conference report 1991 European Design Automation. Conference Report Nels Vander Zanden Information and Computer Science Department University of California, Irvine This was the second year for the EDAC conference and it was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on February 25-28, 1991. The conference was quite successful and the committee members did an excellent job of organizing this second EDAC conference. The conference covered a broad spectrum of automation topics, from high-level design issues to layout concerns and proved to be quite interesting. My primary interest is in logic and high-level synthesis and I found a couple of sessions devoted to these areas. Session 2A, "Logic Synthesis", featured a talk by Masahiro Fujita on a multi-level logic minimization program using binary decision diagrams. The talk discussed methods for finding good variable orderings for the binary decision diagrams. Another paper in this session, by Tadeusz Luba, Jerzy Kalinowski, and Krzysztof Jasinski, discussed a logic synthesis system that employs decomposition as the first step in logic synthesis rather t h a n after two-level minimization as has been done in previous systems. The authors present experiments to demonstrate that their system achieves significant reductions in silicon area. In session 5A entitled "Finite State http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM SIGDA Newsletter Association for Computing Machinery

1991 European Design Automation Conference report

Zanden, Nels Vander
ACM SIGDA Newsletter , Volume 21 (1) – Jun 1, 1991
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1991 European Design Automation. Conference Report Nels Vander Zanden Information and Computer Science Department University of California, Irvine This was the second year for the EDAC conference and it was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on February 25-28, 1991. The conference was quite successful and the committee members did an excellent job of organizing this second EDAC conference. The conference covered a broad spectrum of automation topics, from high-level design issues to layout concerns and proved to be quite interesting. My primary interest is in logic and high-level synthesis and I found a couple of sessions devoted to these areas. Session 2A, "Logic Synthesis", featured a talk by Masahiro Fujita on a multi-level logic minimization program using binary decision diagrams. The talk discussed methods for finding good variable orderings for the binary decision diagrams. Another paper in this session, by Tadeusz Luba, Jerzy Kalinowski, and Krzysztof Jasinski, discussed a logic synthesis system that employs decomposition as the first step in logic synthesis rather t h a n after two-level minimization as has been done in previous systems. The authors present experiments to demonstrate that their system achieves significant reductions in silicon area. In session 5A entitled "Finite State

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ACM SIGDA Newsletter – Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Jun 1, 1991

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