{"volume":26,"title":"Instance-Specific Accelerators for Minimum Covering","_id":"2420","publication_identifier":{"issn":["0920-8542"]},"department":[{"_id":"518"},{"_id":"78"}],"user_id":"398","citation":{"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>.","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} }","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>","short":"C. Plessl, M. Platzner, Journal of Supercomputing 26 (2003) 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>."},"year":"2003","status":"public","intvolume":"        26","author":[{"orcid":"0000-0001-5728-9982","first_name":"Christian","full_name":"Plessl, Christian","id":"16153","last_name":"Plessl"},{"first_name":"Marco","id":"398","last_name":"Platzner","full_name":"Platzner, Marco"}],"publisher":"Kluwer Academic Publishers","extern":"1","date_updated":"2022-01-06T06:56:10Z","type":"journal_article","publication":"Journal of Supercomputing","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"keyword":["reconfigurable computing","instance-specific acceleration","minimum covering"],"date_created":"2018-04-17T15:10:00Z","abstract":[{"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. ","lang":"eng"}],"doi":"10.1023/a:1024443416592","page":"109-129","issue":"2"}