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 \begin{abstract}
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+    The present report describes and summarizes my 1st year of Master's
+    degree's internship at the university of Chalmers, Göteborg, Sweden. I
+    worked under supervision of Carl-Johan Seger and Mary Sheeran.
+
+    The project's goal was to contribute to VossII, a hardware proving tool
+    cloning fl, developed at Intel by Carl Seger for internal usage only. It
+    led me to work on \emph{pattern-matching} on electronic circuits for a
+    \emph{search-and-replace} method, allowing one to apply previously proved
+    transformations to a circuit.
+
+    This problem turns out to be more or less the \emph{subgraph isomorphism
+    problem}, which is NP-complete, and must nevertheless be solved fast on
+    processor-sized circuits on this particular case.
+
+    During my internship, I developed a C++ library to perform this task that
+    will be integrated in VossII, based on a few well-known algorithms as well
+    as some ad-hoc heuristics and algorithm tweaks to better match the context
+    of circuits. One of my objectives all along was also to keep a clean and
+    well-documented codebase, as the tool will have to be maintainable by
+    others later.
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