An Approximation Algorithm for Generalized EXOR Projected Sum of Products

Fast minimization time, compact area and low delay are important issues in logic circuit design. In order to orchestrate these main goals, in this paper we propose a new four level logic form ({\em Generalized EXOR-Projected Sum of Products}, in short {\em GEP-SOP}) with low delay and compact area. Even if the problem of finding an optimal GEP-SOPs is computationally hard, we propose an efficient approximation algorithm that gives guaranteed near optimal solutions. A wide set of experimental results confirms that the GEP-SOP forms are often more compact than the SOP forms, and their synthesis is always a very fast reoptimization phase after SOP minimization