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Circuits via topoi

Logic in Computer Science 2018-07-20 v1

Abstract

Leveraging topos theory a semantics can be given to sequential circuits where time-sensitive gates, such as unit delay, are treated uniformly with combinational gates. Both kinds of gates are functions in a particular topos: the topos of presheaves over the natural ordering of N\mathbb{N}. This is used to show that sequential circuits validate the equational theory of traced categories.

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@article{arxiv.1807.07159,
  title  = {Circuits via topoi},
  author = {Arnaud Spiwack},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.07159},
  year   = {2018}
}
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