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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1995
J Greg Viot, Austin, TX (US);
Oded Yishay, Austin, TX (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A process (601-611) and implementing computer system (13) for selecting a specific logic circuit among a group of otherwise acceptable alternative circuits, as represented by prime implicant terms (607), includes determining and assigning a power consumption factor (609) to each of the alternative logic circuit implementations. In the disclosed example, the probability of switching logic states (313, 513) is determined and used as a measure of the power consumption factor associated with each of the acceptable and valid prime implicant solutions for a given logic function. From a group of acceptable prime implicant solutions, the power optimum solution is chosen (611) which has been determined to be the most likely to consume the least amount of power in implementing the desired logic function.