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We present different architectures to solve Boolean satisfiability problems in instance-specific hardware. A simulation of these architectures shows that for examples from the DIMACS benchmark suite, high raw speed-ups over software can be achieved. We present a design tool flow and prototype implementation of an instance-specific satisfiability solver and discuss experimental results. We measure the overall speed-up of the instance-specific architecture that takes the hardware compilation time into account. The results prove that many of the DIMACS examples can be accelerated with current FPGA technology.
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Platzner, M., De Micheli, G. (1998). Acceleration of satisfiability algorithms by reconfigurable hardware. In: Hartenstein, R.W., Keevallik, A. (eds) Field-Programmable Logic and Applications From FPGAs to Computing Paradigm. FPL 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1482. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0055234
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