A state-machine synthesizer - SMS

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1981, Pages 301-305

  Brown, Douglas W ^a  

^a TEKTRONIX INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS;

CIRCUIT SYNTHESIS; D FLIP FLOPS; HIGH LEVEL DESCRIPTION; OUTPUT FUNCTIONS; STATE MACHINE; SUM OF PRODUCTS; TEDIOUS CALCULATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; LOGIC DESIGN;

EID: 84987168743     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/dac.1981.1585367     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

1. Christopher R. Clare, Designing Logic Systems Using Stale Machines, (McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1973).
2. D. L. Dietmeyer, "Connection arrays from equations, " Journal of Design Automation and Fault-Tolerant Computing, vol. 3, pp. 109-125, (April 1979).
3. D. L. Dietmeyer and M. H. Doshi, "Automated PLA synthesis of the combinational logic of a DDL description, " Journal of Design Automation and Fault-Tolerant Computing, vol. 3, pp. 241-257, (Winter 1979).
4. Per Brinch Hansen, The Architecture of Concurrent Programs, (Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1977), ch. 1.
5. S. J. Hong, R. G. Cain, D. L. Ostapko, "MINI: A heuristic approach for logic minimization, " IBM Journal of Research and Development, pp. 443-458, (September, 1974).
6. A. Svoboda, "Fast multiple output logical circuit minimization. " Svoboda died before he could publish this work. Douglas W. Brown, the author of this paper, has the preliminary version of Svoboda's final report on presto to Tektronix, Inc. This preliminary version is based on: A. Svoboda, "The concept of term exclusiveness and its effect on the theory of boolean functions, " Journal of the Association of Computing Machinery, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 425-440, (July 1975)
7. and on R. C. DeVries and A. Svoboda, "Multiple output minimization with mosaics of boolean functions, " IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. C-24, no. 8, pp. 777-785, (August 1975).
8. A. Svoboda and Donnamaie E. White, Advanced Logical Circuit Design Techniques, (Garland Press, New York, 1979), ch. 4 and 5.