A Relational Approach to Functional Decomposition of Logic Circuits

dc.creatorLee, Tony T.
dc.creatorYe, Tong
dc.date2006-11-06
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:31:39Z
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dc.descriptionFunctional decomposition of logic circuits has profound influence on all quality aspects of the cost-effective implementation of modern digital systems. In this paper, a relational approach to the decomposition of logic circuits is proposed. This approach is parallel to the normalization of relational databases, they are governed by the same concepts of functional dependency (FD) and multi-valued dependency (MVD). It is manifest that the functional decomposition of switching function actually exploits the same idea and serves a similar purpose as database normalization. Partitions play an important role in the decomposition. The interdependency of two partitions can be represented by a bipartite graph. We demonstrate that both FD and MVD can be represented by bipartite graphs with specific topological properties, which are delineated by partitions of minterms. It follows that our algorithms are procedures of constructing those specific bipartite graphs of interest to meet the information-lossless criteria of functional decomposition.
dc.description29 pages, 12 figures, submitted to Discrete Applied Mathematics
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0611024
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0611024
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/118832
dc.subjectDiscrete Mathematics
dc.subjectMachine Learning
dc.titleA Relational Approach to Functional Decomposition of Logic Circuits
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