IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
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Head-Tail Expressions for Interval Functions
Infall SYAFALNITsutomu SASAO
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2014 Volume E97.A Issue 10 Pages 2043-2054

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This paper shows a method to represent interval functions by using head-tail expressions. The head-tail expressions represent greater-than GT(X:A) functions, less-than LT(X:B) functions, and interval functions IN0(X:A,B) more efficiently than sum-of-products expressions. Let n be the number of bits to represent the largest value in the interval (A,B). This paper proves that a head-tail expression (HT) represents an interval function with at most n words in a ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) realization. It also shows the average numbers of factors to represent interval functions by HTs for up to n=16, which were obtained by a computer simulation. It also conjectures that, for sufficiently large n, the average number of factors to represent n-variable interval functions by HTs is at most 2/3n-5/9. Experimental results also show that, for n≥10, to represent interval functions, HTs require at least 20% fewer factors than MSOPs, on the average.

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