Background
Korfhage, Robert Roy was born on December 2, 1930 in Syracuse, New York, United States. Son of Roy Fred and Loretta Margaret (Krohn) Korfhage.
(The roots of the project which culminates with the writin...)
The roots of the project which culminates with the writing of this book can be traced to the work on logic synthesis started in 1979 at the IBM Watson Research Center and at University of California, Berkeley. During the preliminary phases of these projects, the impor tance of logic minimization for the synthesis of area and performance effective circuits clearly emerged. In 1980, Richard Newton stirred our interest by pointing out new heuristic algorithms for two-level logic minimization and the potential for improving upon existing approaches. In the summer of 1981, the authors organized and participated in a seminar on logic manipulation at IBM Research. One of the goals of the seminar was to study the literature on logic minimization and to look at heuristic algorithms from a fundamental and comparative point of view. The fruits of this investigation were surprisingly abundant: it was apparent from an initial implementation of recursive logic minimiza tion (ESPRESSO-I) that, if we merged our new results into a two-level minimization program, an important step forward in automatic logic synthesis could result. ESPRESSO-II was born and an APL implemen tation was created in the summer of 1982. The results of preliminary tests on a fairly large set of industrial examples were good enough to justify the publication of our algorithms. It is hoped that the strength and speed of our minimizer warrant its Italian name, which denotes both express delivery and a specially-brewed black coffee.
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(The roots of the project which culminates with the writin...)
The roots of the project which culminates with the writing of this book can be traced to the work on logic synthesis started in 1979 at the IBM Watson Research Center and at University of California, Berkeley. During the preliminary phases of these projects, the impor tance of logic minimization for the synthesis of area and performance effective circuits clearly emerged. In 1980, Richard Newton stirred our interest by pointing out new heuristic algorithms for two-level logic minimization and the potential for improving upon existing approaches. In the summer of 1981, the authors organized and participated in a seminar on logic manipulation at IBM Research. One of the goals of the seminar was to study the literature on logic minimization and to look at heuristic algorithms from a fundamental and comparative point of view. The fruits of this investigation were surprisingly abundant: it was apparent from an initial implementation of recursive logic minimiza tion (ESPRESSO-I) that, if we merged our new results into a two-level minimization program, an important step forward in automatic logic synthesis could result. ESPRESSO-II was born and an APL implemen tation was created in the summer of 1982. The results of preliminary tests on a fairly large set of industrial examples were good enough to justify the publication of our algorithms. It is hoped that the strength and speed of our minimizer warrant its Italian name, which denotes both express delivery and a specially-brewed black coffee.
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consultant Information sciences educator
Korfhage, Robert Roy was born on December 2, 1930 in Syracuse, New York, United States. Son of Roy Fred and Loretta Margaret (Krohn) Korfhage.
Biosystems Engineering in Mathematics, University of Michigan, 1952; Master of Science, University of Michigan, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, 1962.
Assistant professor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 1960-1962; assistant professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1962-1967; associate professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 1967-1970; professor, Southern Methodist U., Dallas, 1970-1986; professor, U. Pittsburgh, since 1986. President DOM, Inc., Pittsburgh, since 1983.
(The roots of the project which culminates with the writin...)
(The roots of the project which culminates with the writin...)
(computers and information sciences)
(Hardcover book.)
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computing Society, Association Computing Machinery (council 1975-1981), American Institute Information Science, Sigma Xi.
Married Ann Hobart Willard, June 14, 1955. Children: Willard, Margaret, Lisa, David.