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| 62 | Acknowledgments | 
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| 66 | The contributors: Iris Bahar, Hyunwoo Cho, Erica Frohm, Charlie Gaona, | 
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| 67 | Cheng Hua, Jae-Young Jang, Seh-Woong Jeong, Balakrishna Kumthekar, | 
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| 68 | Enrico Macii, Bobbie Manne, In-Ho Moon, Curt Musfeldt, Shipra Panda, | 
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| 69 | Abelardo Pardo, Bernard Plessier, Kavita Ravi, Hyongkyoon Shin, Alan | 
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| 70 | Shuler, Arun Sivakumaran, Jorgen Sivesind. | 
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| 73 | The early adopters: Gianpiero Cabodi, Jordi Cortadella, Mario Escobar, | 
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| 74 | Gayani Gamage, Gary Hachtel, Mariano Hermida, Woohyuk Lee, Enric | 
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| 75 | Pastor, Massimo Poncino, Ellen Sentovich, the students of ECEN5139. | 
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| 78 | I am also particularly indebted to the following people for in-depth | 
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| 79 | discussions on BDDs: Armin Biere, Olivier Coudert, Geert Janssen, David | 
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| 80 | Long, Jean Christophe Madre, Ken McMillan, Shin-Ichi Minato, Jaehong | 
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| 81 | Park, Rajeev Ranjan, Rick Rudell, Ellen Sentovich, Tom Shiple, and | 
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| 82 | Bwolen Yang. | 
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| 85 | Special thanks to Norris Ip for guiding my faltering steps | 
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| 86 | in the design of the C++ interface. | 
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| 87 | Gianpiero Cabodi and Stefano Quer have graciously agreed to let me | 
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| 88 | distribute their dddmp library with CUDD. | 
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| 91 | Masahiro Fujita, Gary Hachtel, and Carl Pixley have provided | 
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| 92 | encouragement and advice. | 
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| 95 | The National Science Foundation and the Semiconductor Research Council | 
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| 96 | have supported in part the development of this package. | 
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