conference paper Christian Plessl author 161530000-0001-5728-9982 Marco Platzner author 398 518 department 78 department In this paper we present instance-specific accelerators for minimum-cost covering problems. We first define the covering problem and discuss a branch&bound algorithm to solve it. Then we describe an instance-specific hardware architecture that implements branch&bound in 3-valued logic and uses reduction techniques usually found in software solvers. Results for small unate covering problems reveal significant raw speedups. CSREA Press2001 minimum coveringacceleratorfunding-sundance 85-91 Plessl, C., &#38; Platzner, M. (2001). Instance-Specific Accelerators for Minimum Covering. In <i>Proc. Int. Conf. on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA)</i> (pp. 85–91). CSREA Press. Plessl, Christian, and Marco Platzner. “Instance-Specific Accelerators for Minimum Covering.” <i>Proc. Int. Conf. on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA)</i>, CSREA Press, 2001, pp. 85–91. @inproceedings{Plessl_Platzner_2001, title={Instance-Specific Accelerators for Minimum Covering}, booktitle={Proc. Int. Conf. on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA)}, publisher={CSREA Press}, author={Plessl, Christian and Platzner, Marco}, year={2001}, pages={85–91} } C. Plessl, M. Platzner, in: Proc. Int. Conf. on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA), CSREA Press, 2001, pp. 85–91. Plessl C, Platzner M. Instance-Specific Accelerators for Minimum Covering. In: <i>Proc. Int. Conf. on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA)</i>. CSREA Press; 2001:85-91. C. Plessl and M. Platzner, “Instance-Specific Accelerators for Minimum Covering,” in <i>Proc. Int. Conf. on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA)</i>, 2001, pp. 85–91. Plessl, Christian, and Marco Platzner. “Instance-Specific Accelerators for Minimum Covering.” In <i>Proc. Int. Conf. on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA)</i>, 85–91. CSREA Press, 2001. 24282018-04-17T15:39:17Z2022-01-06T06:56:17Z