Title :
Improving Single-Pass Redundancy Addition and Removal with Inconsistent Assignments
Author :
Lo, Wing-Hang ; Wu, Yu-Liang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong
Abstract :
Redundancy addition and removal, also known as rewiring, is a building block of a wide range of circuit optimization applications. In this paper, we propose a novel improvement on the FIRE redundancy identification technique and augment the state-of-the-art rewiring scheme RAMFIRE with it. Our method increases the number of alternative wires identified by 10% and improves the runtime by nearly 20%. Optimization applications based on rewiring can take the advantage of this speed up and enhanced rewiring power
Keywords :
circuit optimisation; logic design; redundancy; FIRE redundancy identification technique; RAMFIRE scheme; circuit optimization; rewiring scheme; single-pass redundancy addition; single-pass redundancy removal; Automatic test pattern generation; Circuit faults; Circuit testing; Fires; Logic circuits; Optimization methods; Performance evaluation; Redundancy; Runtime; Wires;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI Design, Automation and Test, 2006 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Hsinchu
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0179-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0180-1
DOI :
10.1109/VDAT.2006.258153
