An efficient algorithm for deriving logic functions of asynchronous circuits

Abstract

Signal Transition Graphs (STGs) are Petri nets, which were introduced to represent a behavior of asynchronous circuits. To derive logic functions from an STG, the reachability graph should be constructed. In the verification of STGs some method based on Occurrence nets (OCN) and its prefix, called unfolding, has been proposed. OCNs can represent both causality and concurrency between two nodes by net structure. In this paper, we propose a method to derive a logic function by generating substate space of a given STG using the structural properties of OCN. The proposed method can be seen as a parallel algorithm for deriving a logic function.