"ABC: The Way It Should Have Been Designed" – Alan Mishchenko (Latch_2024)

Alan Mishchenko

https://fossi-foundation.org/latch-up/2024

Almost two decades ago, in September 2005, the first public version of ABC was released. It featured technology-independent synthesis using DAG-aware rewriting, technology mapping for standard cells and lookup tables, and simple combinational equivalence checking, all based on the And-Inverter Graphs (AIG) data-structure used to unify the computation flow. In the coming years ABC has been adopted as an optimization engine and a research environment by a number of academic and industrial users. The use that followed exposed a number of shortcomings in the original design of ABC. This talk focuses on what is present and, more importantly, what is missing in ABC, and how ABC could be improved to make it more versatile and user-friendly. The motivation for this talk is to help academic researchers maximize the usefulness of their tools and to set a new standard for future versions of ABC.

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