Computer Science and Engineering, Department of
Date of this Version
4-1978
Abstract
Fan-out-free networks of AND, OR, NOT, EXOR, and MAJORITY gates are considered. Boolean functions for which such networks exist are defined to be fan-out free. The paper solves the following problems regarding the fan-out-free networks and functions.
1) Characterization of the class of fan-out-free functions: The characterization given is constructive in the sense that if a given function is fan-out free one obtains a fan-out-free network to realize it.
2) Counting the class of fan-out-free functions: After establishing a correspondence between a fan-out-free function and a normalized network realizing it, a series of formulas are developed to count distinct normal networks for any subset of the five gates mentioned above.
3) Fault Diagnosis: Methods are developed to detect multiple faults and to locate single faults in arbitrary fan-out-free networks.
Comments
Published in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS, VOL. c-27, NO. 4, APRIL 1978, pp. 309-318. doi: 10.1109/TC.1978.1675103 Copyright 1978 IEEE. Used by permission.