Conference Report of the International Workshop on Logic Synthesis 1989 Michael Neher Computer Science Research Center (FZI) at the University of Karlsruhe W. Germany Introduction: The International Workshop on Logic Synthesis was held on May 24 - 26, 1989 at the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina in Research Triangle Park, N.C. The over 100 attendees came mainly from US with very low European participation. The 11 sessions covered multilevel combinational logic synthesis, sequential logic synthesis, control FSM synthesis, behavioral synthesis systems and complexity issues in synthesis. One session was dedicated to benchmark and poster presentations, chaired by R. Lisanke, who is responsible for the MCNC benchmark distribution. I attended the conference with support from SIGDA and want to point out the highlights of the conference: Control FSM synthesis: There were four papers presented on state assignment. G. Saucier (INPG/CSI, Grenoble) concentrated on the generation of coding constraints for the state assignment. T. Villa (ucb) uses symbolic logic minimization for the generation of coding constraints in his NOVA system. He developed an exact, but time consuming algorithm for embedding the coding constraints. All coding constraints are taken into account, so the length of the state code field is eventually
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