論文

査読有り
1993年10月

BEM-II - AN ARITHMETIC BOOLEAN EXPRESSION MANIPULATOR USING BDDS

IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRONICS COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
  • S MINATO

E76A
10
開始ページ
1721
終了ページ
1729
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
出版者・発行元
IEICE-INST ELECTRONICS INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS ENG

Recently, there has been a lot of research on solving combinatorial problems using Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs), which are very efficient representations of Boolean functions. We have already developed a Boolean Expression Manipulator, which calculates and reduces Boolean expressions quickly based on BDD techniques. This greatly aids our works on developing VLSI CAD systems and solving combinatorial problems. Any combinatorial problem can be described in Boolean expressions; however, arithmetic operations, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, equality and inequality, are also used for describing many practical problems. Arithmetic operations provide simple descriptions of problems in many cases. In this paper, we present an arithmetic Boolean expression manipulator (BEM-II), based on BDD techniques. BEM-II calculates Boolean expressions containing arithmetic operations and then displays the results in various formats. It can solve problems represented by a set of equalities and inequalities, which are dealt with using 0-1 linear programming. We show the efficient data structure based on BDD representation, algorithms for manipulating Boolean expressions with arithmetic operations, and good formats for displaying the results. Finally we present the specification of BEM-II and an example of application to the 8-Queens problem. BEM-II is customizable to various applications. It has good computation performance in terms of the total time for programming and execution. We expect BEM-II to be a helpful tool in research and development on digital systems.

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ID情報
  • ISSN : 0916-8508
  • eISSN : 1745-1337
  • CiNii Articles ID : 110003215400
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:A1993MD78200021

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