View the entire paper (requires a Postscript-capable viewer)This paper presents a novel technique for re-synthesizing circuits for low-power dissipation. Power consumption is reduced through redundancy addition and removal by using learning to identify indirect logic implications within a circuit. Such implications are exploited by adding gates and connections to the circuit without altering its overall behavior and thereby enabling us to eliminate other, high power dissipating, nodes. We propose a new BDD-based method for computing indirect implications in a logic network; furthermore, we present heuristic techniques to perform redundancy addition and removal without destroying the topology of the mapped circuit. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed technique in reducing power while keeping within delay and area constraints.
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