Abstract – Implication graphs are used to solve the test generation, redundancy identification, synthesis, and verification problems of digital circuits. We propose a new “oring ” node structure to represent partial implications in a graph. The oring node is the contrapositive of the previously used “anding ” node. An n-input gate requires one oring and one anding nodes to represent all partial implications. This implication graph is shown to be more complete and more compact compared to the previously published (n+1) anding node graph. Introduction of the new oring node finds more redundancies using the transitive closure method. The second contribution of the present work is a set of new algorithms to update transitive closure for every newly added edge in the implication

Abstract – Implication graphs are used to solve the test generation, redundancy identification, synthesis, and verification problems of digital circuits. We propose a new “oring ” node structure to represent partial implications in a graph. The oring node is the contrapositive of the previously used “anding ” node. The addition of a single oring node in the implication graph of a Boolean gate eliminates the need for several anding nodes. An n-input gate requires one oring and one anding nodes to represent all partial implications. This implication graph is shown to be more complete and more compact compared to the previously published (n+1) anding nodes graph. Introduction of the new oring node finds more redundancies using the transitive closure method. The second contribution of the present work is new algorithms

Redundant logic in a digital circuit is often identified as untestable or redundant single stuck-at faults. Redundant faults in a combinational circuit are faults that no input patterns can detect [2]. Removal of such faults simplifies the circuit without chang\Lambda Student

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There is a class of implication-based methods that identify logic redundancy from circuit topology and without any primary input assignment. These methods are less complex than automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) but identify only a subset of all redundancies. This paper provides new results to enlarge this subset. Contributions are a fixed-value theorem and two theorems on fanout stem unobservability. We represent signal controllabilities and observabilities using an implication graph and its transitive closure (TC). Both complete and partial implications are included. Weaknesses of this procedure areindealing with the e ects of xedvalued variables on TC and the lack of observability relations across fanouts. The xed-value theorem adds unconditional edges from all variables to the xed variable and then recomputes TC recursively until no new fixed nodes are found. The stem unobservability theorems determine the observability status of a fanout stem from its dominator set, which either has fixed values, or is unobservable. Results are considerably improved from the previously reported implication-based identi ers. In the c5315 circuit we identify 58 out of 59 redundant faults. All 34 redundant faults of c6288 are identified.