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In addition, designers will have to accustom<br />themselves to designs in the hardware library. By having a back-end system that looks for<br />similar circuits, there is little to no effort for the designer to reuse the design. This thesis<br />provides an overview and comparison of different methods for characterizing and comparing<br />digital circuits in order to suggest candidate circuits that engineers can reuse. Several of<br />these methods are implemented, modified, and compared to show the feasibility of utilizing<br />this work for increasing overall productivity.<br />","abstract_html":"Productivity for digital circuit design is being outpaced currently by the rate at which&lt;br /&gt;silicon is growing such as FPGAs. Complex designs take a large amount of engineering&lt;br /&gt;hours to complete. Reuse of existing design can potentially decrease this cost and increase&lt;br /&gt;design productivity. 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