• DocumentCode
    1134514
  • Title

    A Note on Minimal Reed-Muller Canonical Forms of Switching Functions

  • Author

    Kodandapani, K.L. ; Setlur, Rangaswamy V.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Computer Science, University of Regina
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1977
  • fDate
    3/1/1977 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    310
  • Lastpage
    313
  • Abstract
    A nonexhaustive procedure for obtaining minimal Reed-Muller canonical (RMC) forms of switching functions is presented. This procedure is a modification of a procedure presented earlier in the literature and enables derivation of an upper bound on the number of RMC forms to be derived to choose a minimal one. It is shown that the task of obtaining minimal RMC forms is simplified in the case of symmetric functions and self-dual functions.
  • Keywords
    Influence vector, minimal Reed-Muller canonical (RMC) forms, nonexhaustive procedures, self-dual functions, symmetric functions.; Automation; Computer science; Upper bound; Influence vector, minimal Reed-Muller canonical (RMC) forms, nonexhaustive procedures, self-dual functions, symmetric functions.;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computers, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9340
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TC.1977.1674830
  • Filename
    1674830