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cited in countless publications. A few representative sources of these methods are presented
here. Included are some of the original references as well as some of the more current ones,
which often provide useful summaries of the methods.
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[9] E. J. McCluskey, “Minimization of Boolean Functions,” Bell Syst. Tech. J. 35(5), 1417–1444
(1956).
[10] W. V. Quine, “The Problem of Simplifying Truth Functions,” Am. Math Monthly 59(8), 521–531
(1952).
[11] R. K. Brayton, G. Hachtel, C. McMullen, and A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Logic Minimization
Algorithms for VLSI Synthesis. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1984.
[12] R. Rudell and A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, ...