COSIMA: a self-testable simulated annealing processor for universalcost functions

摘要

Presents a chip forming the heart of a special purposecoprocessing unit, which accelerates simulated annealing algorithms tosolve combinatorial optimization problems. The chip includes about 26000transistors and runs at an expected clock frequency of 20 MHz. Comparedwith a software solution it leads to a speedup of about 500