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Introduce a Boolean variable for each gate output and impose its equivalence to the gate's input function with a constant number of clauses. A final unit clause forces acceptance. For a bounded-fan-in Boolean circuit, the formula size is linear in the gate count and it is satisfiable exactly when some input makes the Boolean circuit output one. Auxiliary variables extend the satisfying assignments; this is equisatisfiability, not equality as functions of the enlarged variable set.

For any set of lengths $A$, choose at length $n$ a constant-zero Boolean circuit when $n\notin A$, and an AND of all inputs when $n\in A$. This uses $O(n+1)$ gates. If $A$ is undecidable, so is $U_A$, yet it belongs to P/poly. Since all NP languages are decidable by certificate enumeration, this proves P/poly is not equal to NP; it does not resolve containment in the other direction.