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  • Accelerating Boolean Matchi...
    ZHANG, Chun; HU, Yu; WANG, Lingli; HE, Lei; TONG, Jiarong

    IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, 2010, Volume: E93.A, Issue: 10
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    Boolean matching is a fundamental problem in FPGA synthesis, but existing Boolean matchers are not scalable to complex PLBs (programmable logic blocks) and large circuits. This paper proposes a filter-based Boolean matching method, F-BM, which accelerates Boolean matching using lookup tables implemented by Bloom filters storing pre-calculated matching results. To show the effectiveness of the proposed F-BM, a post-mapping re-synthesis minimizing area which employs Boolean matching as the kernel has been implemented. Tested on a broad selection of benchmarks, the re-synthesizer using F-BM is 80X faster with 0.5% more area, compared with the one using a SAT-based Boolean matcher.