DGC
From: Oliver Kraus
DGC - Digital Gate Compiler
HISTORY
About three or four years ago, there was a small
asynchronous design group at the institute for
computer aided circuit design of the university of
erlangen-nuremberg. Beside all other projects I
spent my time on the creation of asynchronous
state machines. It later became my Ph D project.
During my research I found that many things had
been done before: Most parts are based on the work
of S. Nowik (Minimalist) and K. Yun (3D).
DGC differs from other projects in some points:
- There is an hazard free netlist generator.
This also means the handling of essential hazards
(delay chain generation)
- There is a new, much better encoding method.
Well, DGC has some other disatvantages, so at the
end, results of DGC and MINIMALIST are comparable
- DGC removes some restrictions on the XBM format
and adds some new keywords.
DGC is a collection of several programs.
Directly comparable to the programs MINIMALIST and
3D is XBM2PLA which creates the boolean functions
from a XBM description. XBM2PLA and DGC do
not call external programs (like hfmin). Everything
is handled inside a single executable. So DGC and
XBM2PLA are much easier to handle compared to
MINIMALIST and 3D. Moreover DGC comes with a
configure script which makes DGC much more portable
(DGC runns on MacOS X, on Windows and of course on
nearly all unixes...)
I should also mention that EVERY algorithm has been
rewritten from scratch...
There are also some papers about DGC. For example
a poster presentation at DATE 2003.
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