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Improved Decomposition of STGs

Walter Vogler, Ben Kangsah
Application of Concurrency to System Design ACSD 2005, St. Malo, Juni 2005
Eds.: J. Desel, Y. Watanabe
IEEE 2005, 244 – 253
Copyright by IEEE

Signal Transition Graphs (STGs) are a version of Petri nets for the specification of asynchronous circuit behaviour. It has been suggested to decompose such a specification as a first step; this leads to a modular implementation, which can support circuit synthesis by possibly avoiding state explosion or allowing the use of library elements.

In a previous paper, the original method was extended and shown to be much more generally applicable than known before. But further extensions are necessary, and some are presented here, e.g.: to avoid dynamic auto-conflicts, the previous paper insisted on avoiding structural auto-conflicts, which is too restrictive; we show how to work with the latter type of auto-conflicts. This and another simple extension makes it necessary to restructure presentation and correctness proof of the decomposition algorithm.

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