DenseQMC: an efficient bit-slice implementation of the Quine-McCluskey algorithm
Data Structures and Algorithms
2023-02-21 v1
Abstract
This note describes a new efficient bit-slice implementation DenseQMC of the Quine-McCluskey algorithm for finding all prime implicants of a Boolean function in the dense case. It is practically feasible for n <= 23 when run on a common laptop or for n <= 27 when run on a server with 1 TiB RAM. This note also outlines a very common mistake in the implementations of the Quine-McCluskey algorithm, leading to a quadratic slowdown. An optimized corrected implementation of the classic approach is also given (called SparseQMC). The implementation is freely available at https://github.com/hellman/Quine-McCluskey .
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@article{arxiv.2302.10083,
title = {DenseQMC: an efficient bit-slice implementation of the Quine-McCluskey algorithm},
author = {Aleksei Udovenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.10083},
year = {2023}
}
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14 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, 4 algorithms, 2 footnotes