John Backes

About John

My research interests include Logic Synthesis, Formal Verification, Bounded Model Checking, Technology Mapping, and SAT-Based Algorithms. I formally started the PhD program at UMN in May 2009; however, I've been an informal PhD student for quite some time.

John's Papers

title: Reduction of Interpolants For Logic Synthesis authors: John Backes and Marc Riedel to be presented at: International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis, Irvine, CA, 2010.

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title: The Synthesis of Cyclic Dependencies with Craig Interpolation authors: John Backes and Marc Riedel presented at: International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis, Berkeley, CA, 2009.

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title: The Analysis of Cyclic Circuits with Boolean Satisfiability authors: John Backes, Brian Fett and Marc Riedel presented at: The International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, San Jose, CA, 2008.

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title: The Synthesis of Stochastic Circuits for Nanoscale Computation authors: Weikang Qian, John Backes, and Marc Riedel presented at: International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis, San Diego, CA, 2007.

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