Boolean Expression Diagrams

Boolean Expression Diagrams

Boolean Expression Diagrams

This paper presents a new data structure called Boolean Expression Diagrams (BEDs) for representing and manipulating Boolean functions. BEDs are a generalization of Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) which can represent any Boolean circuit in linear space and still maintain many of the desirable properties of BDDs. Two algorithms are described for transforming a BED into a reduced ordered BDD. One...

Boolean Expression Diagrams ( Appears in LICS ' 97 )

This paper presents a new data structure called Boolean Expression Diagrams (BEDs) for representing and manipulating Boolean functions. BEDs are a generalization of Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) which can represent any Boolean circuit in linear space and still maintain many of the desirable properties of BDDs. Two algorithms are described for transforming a BED into a reduced ordered BDD. One...

Equivalence checking of combinational circuits using Boolean expression diagrams

The combinational logic-level equivalence problem is to determine whether two given combinational circuits implement the same Boolean function. This problem arises in a number of CAD applications, for example when checking the correctness of incremental design changes (performed either manually or by a design automation tool). This paper introduces a data structure called Boolean Expression Dia...

Combinational Logic-Level Veri cation using Boolean Expression Diagrams

Boolean Expression Diagrams (BEDs) is a new data structure for representing and manipulating Boolean functions. BEDs are a generalization of Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) that are capable of representing any Boolean circuit in linear space and still maintain many of the desirable properties of BDDs. This paper demonstrates that BEDs are well suited for solving the combinational logic-level ve...