21st International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSI Design 2008)
Enhanced TED: A New Data Structure for RTL Verification
Hyderabad, India
January 04-January 08
ISBN: 0-7695-3083-4
This work provides a canonical representation for manipulation of RTL designs. Work has already been done on a canonical and graph-based representation called Taylor Expansion Diagram (TED). Although TED can effectively be used to represent arithmetic expressions at the word-level, it is not memory efficient in representing bit-level logic expressions. In addition, TED cannot represent Boolean expressions at the word-level (vector-level). In this paper, we present modifications to TED that will improve its ability for bit-level logic representation while enhancing its robustness to represent word-level Boolean expressions. It will be shown that for bit-level logic expressions, the Enhanced TED (ETED) performs the same as the BDD representation.
Citation:
Pejman Lotfi-Kamran, Mehran Massoumi, Mohammad Mirzaei, Zainalabedin Navabi, "Enhanced TED: A New Data Structure for RTL Verification," vlsid, pp.481-486, 21st International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSI Design 2008), 2008