Digital design using selection operations

A method for designing a digital integrated circuit chip, the method comprising:

• identifying a logical structure to be implemented by the digital integrated circuit chip;
• representing the logical structure in terms of a plurality of logical operations wherein fewer than 50% of the plurality of logical operations comprise a Boolean logical operation having more than a single input;
• and
• determining logic cells that correspond to an implementation of the logical operations.

A computer-readable storage medium having a computer-readable program embodied therein for directing operation of a computer system including a processor and at least one input device, wherein the computer-readable program includes instructions for operating the computer system for designing a digital circuit in accordance with the following:

• receiving an expression of a logical structure to be implemented by the digital circuit from the at least one input device;
• representing the logical structure in terms of a plurality of logical operations with the processor, wherein the plurality of logical operations comprises at least 5% selection operations, each such selection operation passing at least one of a plurality of inputs as an output;
• and
• determining logic cells that correspond to an implementation of the logical operations with the processor.