An efficient logic extraction algorithm using partitioning and circuit encoding

Abstract

Nowadays, finding subcircuits in a larger circuit is primarily solved by using various heuristics based on graph isomorphism. These approaches are addressed on identify g one specific subcircuit at each time and may take numerous runs if many subcircuits need to be extracted. Therefore, they are not quite suitable for converting the whole circuit represented at transistor-level to a gate-level netlist. We present a logic extraction approach based on dc-connected component (DCC) partition and modified circuit-encoding algorithm to extract all kinds of subscircuits from the input circuit concurrently such that we can. map each subcircuit represented as transistor level netlist to its corresponding logic gate. This mapping relation can be exploited to speed up the simulation of large circuits. Experiments on several real circuits, including sequential logic ones and combination logic ones, show the near-linear performance in run time and memory usage.