Exploiting communication complexity for Boolean matching

Abstract

Boolean matching is to check the equivalence of two functions under input permutation and input/output phase assignment. A straightforward implementation takes time complexity O(n!2/sup n/2), where n is the number of variables. Various signatures of variables were used to prune impossible permutations by many researchers. In this paper, based on communication complexity, we also propose two signatures, cofactor and equivalence signatures, which are general forms of many existing signatures. These signatures are used to develop an efficient Boolean matching algorithm which is based on checking structural equivalence of OBDD's. Experimental results on a set of benchmarks show that our algorithm is indeed very effective in solving Boolean matching problem.