System Development & Application
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App. Res. of Comp. Printed Article
Vol. 41, 2024 No. 1
200-205

Analog SAT solver based on improved continuous-time dynamic systems

Zhao Haijun1
Chen Huayue1
Cui Mengtian2
1. School of Computer Science, China West Normal University, Nanchong Sichuan 637009, China
2. School of Computer Science & Engineering, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu 610041, China
DOI: 10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2023.04.0189

Abstract

This paper studied efficient solving of the Boolean satisfiability problem. Firstly, by analyzing the k-SAT problem and the deterministic continuous-time dynamical system based on the coupled ordinary differential equation form, this paper proposed an improved continuous-time dynamical system equation based on the time-delay information form to maintain the centralized search property. Then, it presented the analog design of three main components, namely, the signal dynamics circuit, the auxiliary variable circuit and the digital verification circuit, to implement the system equation. In the design of signal dynamics circuit, this paper designed a form of analog hardware to obtain higher performance, smaller area and lower power consumption. In the analog hardware design of the proposed auxiliary variable circuit and digital verification circuit, it achieved the goal of avoiding the gradient descent search falling into no solution and determining whether the solution of a given problem has been found. At the same time, it proposed two design schemes of alternative auxiliary variable circuit with reduced area and power consumption. The simulation results show that the proposed new analog hardware SAT solver is not only effective, but also has higher speedup performance and lower power consumption compared with the SAT solver implemented by only software algorithm and other hardware SAT solvers.

Foundation Support

四川省自然科学基金资助项目(2022NSFSC0536)
国家自然科学基金资助项目(12050410248)

Publish Information

DOI: 10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2023.04.0189
Publish at: Application Research of Computers Printed Article, Vol. 41, 2024 No. 1
Section: System Development & Application
Pages: 200-205
Serial Number: 1001-3695(2024)01-030-0200-06

Publish History

[2023-09-12] Accepted Paper
[2024-01-05] Printed Article

Cite This Article

赵海军, 陈华月, 崔梦天. 基于改进连续时间动态系统的模拟SAT求解器 [J]. 计算机应用研究, 2024, 41 (1): 200-205. (Zhao Haijun, Chen Huayue, Cui Mengtian. Analog SAT solver based on improved continuous-time dynamic systems [J]. Application Research of Computers, 2024, 41 (1): 200-205. )

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