Abstract
Recovering the design of a circuit involves raising the level of abstraction from a flat netlist to a more easily understood modular level. Efficient algorithms exist to locate gate clusters (subcircuits) that are syntactically equivalent to known modules, but such technology will fail to match semantically equivalent subcircuits that differ in implementation. This paper discusses the problem of generating the candidate subcircuits so that their equivalence to a known high level module can be examined.
Original language | American English |
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State | Published - Dec 1 1997 |
Disciplines
- Computer Sciences
- Engineering