Bump on the Road: Hardware vs. Software

With higher complexity puzzles (N>5), our software-based algorithm does not seem to solve the puzzles efficiently. We may need to implement some of our algorithm at the hardware-level with customized logic modules and see what happens when we try to solve the higher complexity puzzles; or we may need to reevaluate our software algorithm and develop further our methods to solve the sudoku puzzles. As a team, we will need to investigate and hopefully upgrade/adapt our current algorithm to solve puzzles with higher complexities faster (especially for N>5).