---
_id: '2420'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: ' This paper presents the acceleration of minimum-cost covering problems by
    instance-specific hardware. First, we formulate the minimum-cost covering problem
    and discuss a branch \& bound algorithm to solve it. Then we describe instance-specific
    hardware architectures that implement branch \& bound in 3-valued logic and use
    reduction techniques similar to those found in software solvers. We further present
    prototypical accelerator implementations and a corresponding design tool flow.
    Our experiments reveal significant raw speedups up to five orders of magnitude
    for a set of smaller unate covering problems. Provided that hardware compilation
    times can be reduced, we conclude that instance-specific acceleration of hard
    minimum-cost covering problems will lead to substantial overall speedups. '
author:
- first_name: Christian
  full_name: Plessl, Christian
  id: '16153'
  last_name: Plessl
  orcid: 0000-0001-5728-9982
- first_name: Marco
  full_name: Platzner, Marco
  id: '398'
  last_name: Platzner
citation:
  ama: Plessl C, Platzner M. Instance-Specific Accelerators for Minimum Covering.
    <i>Journal of Supercomputing</i>. 2003;26(2):109-129. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024443416592">10.1023/a:1024443416592</a>
  apa: Plessl, C., &#38; Platzner, M. (2003). Instance-Specific Accelerators for Minimum
    Covering. <i>Journal of Supercomputing</i>, <i>26</i>(2), 109–129. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024443416592">https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024443416592</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Plessl_Platzner_2003, title={Instance-Specific Accelerators for
    Minimum Covering}, volume={26}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024443416592">10.1023/a:1024443416592</a>},
    number={2}, journal={Journal of Supercomputing}, publisher={Kluwer Academic Publishers},
    author={Plessl, Christian and Platzner, Marco}, year={2003}, pages={109–129} }'
  chicago: 'Plessl, Christian, and Marco Platzner. “Instance-Specific Accelerators
    for Minimum Covering.” <i>Journal of Supercomputing</i> 26, no. 2 (2003): 109–29.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024443416592">https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024443416592</a>.'
  ieee: C. Plessl and M. Platzner, “Instance-Specific Accelerators for Minimum Covering,”
    <i>Journal of Supercomputing</i>, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 109–129, 2003.
  mla: Plessl, Christian, and Marco Platzner. “Instance-Specific Accelerators for
    Minimum Covering.” <i>Journal of Supercomputing</i>, vol. 26, no. 2, Kluwer Academic
    Publishers, 2003, pp. 109–29, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024443416592">10.1023/a:1024443416592</a>.
  short: C. Plessl, M. Platzner, Journal of Supercomputing 26 (2003) 109–129.
date_created: 2018-04-17T15:10:00Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:56:10Z
department:
- _id: '518'
- _id: '78'
doi: 10.1023/a:1024443416592
extern: '1'
intvolume: '        26'
issue: '2'
keyword:
- reconfigurable computing
- instance-specific acceleration
- minimum covering
language:
- iso: eng
page: 109-129
publication: Journal of Supercomputing
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 0920-8542
publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
status: public
title: Instance-Specific Accelerators for Minimum Covering
type: journal_article
user_id: '398'
volume: 26
year: '2003'
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