Benjamin Menhorn
ABSTRACT
In general, this work will deal with measuring complexity. The focus question is towards addressing complexity in an adequate way. This work concentrates on digital circuits and digital hardware. For this field of computer science the complexity for circuits will be calculated. Therefore, a new complexity measure will be introduced, called design entropy. It allows a mathematical calculation of complexity resulting in figures. These allow a direct evaluation and comparison between different systems and realizations. The application and important capabilities of this measurement will be demonstrated on different examples.
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Index Terms
- Design entropy concept: a measurement for complexity
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