From 3 July 2023 to 6 July 2023, and Keith George Ciantar attended CODIT 2023, the 9th International Conference on Control, Decision and 福利在线免费 technologies, which was held in Rome in Italy. The conference was held at the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering 鈥 the University of Rome 鈥淟a Sapienza鈥.
Keith George Ciantar and Prof. Ing. Owen Casha, from the Department of , presented a paper titled " Implementation of a Sudoku Puzzle Solver on a FPGA ".
In this paper, the design, implementation and evaluation of a hybrid Sudoku puzzle solver on a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) was presented. The solver initially makes use of pen-and-paper solving techniques to reduce the number of possible values and prune the overall search space. Once this process is complete, the solver then utilizes a depth-first search algorithm to systematically guess and backtrack through the puzzle, until a solution is reached. This work strived to implement a solver with minimal area utilization while maintaining simplicity and still achieving adequate performance. The implementation and the testing of the Sudoku puzzle solver were carried out on a Xilinx Spartan-6 XC6SLX45 FPGA.
Prof. Ing. Casha also chaired one of the sessions held on 3 July 2023 titled "Sensors, Mobile and Wireless Communications ".
