Minimization of circuit registers: Retiming revisited

نویسندگان

  • Bruno Gaujal
  • Jean Mairesse
چکیده

In this paper, we address the following problem: given a synchronous digital circuit, is it possible to construct a new circuit computing the same function as the original one but using a minimal number of registers? The construction of such a circuit can be done in polynomial time and is based on a result of Orlin for one periodic bi-infinite graphs showing that the cardinality maximum flow is equal to the size of a minimum cut. The idea is to view such a graph as the unfolding of the dependences in a digital circuit.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics

دوره 156  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008