• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.9A no.3
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• pp.363-370
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• 2002

OPKFDD (Ordered Pseudo-Kronecker Functional Decision Diagram) is one of ordered-DDs (Decision Diagrams) in which each node can take one of three decomposition types : Shannon, positive Davio and negative Davio decompositions. Whereas OBDD (Ordered Binary Decision Diagram) uses only the Shannon decomposition in each node, OPKFDD uses the three decompositions and generates representations of functions with smaller number of nodes than other DDs. However, this leads to the extreme difficulty of getting an optimal solution for the minimization of OPKFDD. Since an appropriate decomposition type has to be chosen for each node, the size of the representation is decided by the selection of the decomposition type. We propose a heuristic method to generate OPKFDD efficiently from the OBDD of the given function and the algorithm of the decision of decomposition type for a given variable ordering. Experimental results demonstrate the performance of the algorithm.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.27 no.9
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• pp.759-767
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• 2000

OPKFDD(Ordered Pseudo-Kronecker Functional Decision Diagram)는 각 노드에서 다양한 decomposition을 취할 수 있는 Ordered-DD(Decision Diagram)의 한 종류이다. OBDD(Ordered Binary Decision Diagram)에서 각 노드는 Shannon decomposition 만을 이용하는 반면, OPKFDD는 각 노드마다 Shannon, positive Davio, negative Davio decomposition 중의 하나를 사용하도록 하며 많은 경우 매우 적은 수의 노드로 함수를 표현할 수 있다. 그러나 각 노드마다 각기 다른 확장 방법을 선택할 수 있는 특징 때문에 입력 노드에 대한 확장 방밥과 입력 변수 순서의 결정에 의해서 OPKFDD의 크기가 좌우되며 이에 대한 최적의 해를 구하는 것은 매우 어려운 문제로 알려져 있다. 본 논문에서는 DD 크기를 기준을 노드 수로 하여 기존의 BDD(Binary Decision Diagram) 자료구조에서 OPKFDD를 효율적으로 유도해내는 방법을 제시하고 complex term을 이용하여 이를 최소화하는 알고리즘을 제시한다. 그리고 입력변수 순서 결정을 위하여 다출력함수의 경우 함수간의 포함관계를 고려한 그룹-sifting과 각 노드의 확장 방법을 제안하고 실험 결과를 제시한다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.8A no.1
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• pp.48-55
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• 2001

Using BDD, we can represent Boolean functions uniquely and compactly, Hence, BDD have become widely used for CAD applications, such as logic synthesis, formal verification, and etc. The size of the BDD representation for a function is very sensitive to the choice of orderings on the input variables. Therefore, it is very important to find a good variable ordering which minimize the size of the BDD. Since finding an optimal ordering is NP-complete, several heuristic algorithms have been proposed to find good variable orderings. In this paper, we propose a variable ordering algorithm based on the $\mu$O(microcanonical optimization). $\mu$O consists of two distinct procedures that are alternately applied : Initialization and Sampling. The initialization phase is to executes a fast local search, the sampling phase leaves the local optimum obtained in the previous initialization while remaining close to that area of search space. The proposed algorithm has been experimented on well known benchmark circuits and shows superior performance compared to a algorithm based on simulated annealing.