On performance optimization and quality control for approximate-communication-enabled networks-on-chip

S Xiao, X Wang, M Palesi, AK Singh… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For many applications showing error forgiveness, approximate computing is a new design
paradigm that trades application output accuracy for mitigating computation/communication …

ACDC: An accuracy-and congestion-aware dynamic traffic control method for networks-on-chip

S Xiao, X Wang, M Palesi, AK Singh… - … Design, Automation & …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many applications exhibit error forgiving features. For these applications, approximate
computing provides the opportunity of accelerating the execution time or reducing power …

Approximate communication for energy-efficient network-on-chip

L Wang, X Wang - Advances in Computers, 2022 - Elsevier
Approximate Computing is being touted as a viable solution for high-performance
computation by relaxing the accuracy constraints of applications. This trend has been …

Learning-based quality management for approximate communication in network-on-chips

Y Chen, A Louri - … Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current multi/many-core systems spend large amounts of time and power transmitting data
across on-chip interconnects. This problem is aggravated when data-intensive applications …

Approximate communication strategies for energy-efficient and high performance NoC: Opportunities and challenges

MF Reza, P Ampadu - Proceedings of the 2019 Great Lakes Symposium …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
With the advancement and miniaturization of transistor technology, hundreds of cores can
be integrated on a single chip. Network-on-Chips (NoCs) are the de facto on-chip …

An online quality management framework for approximate communication in network-on-chips

Y Chen, A Louri - Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Approximate communication is being seriously considered as an effective technique for
reducing power consumption and improving the communication efficiency of network-on …

HAS-RL: A Hierarchical Approximate Scheme Optimized With Reinforcement Learning for NoC-Based NN Accelerators

S Li, S Zhou, Y Xue, W Fan, T Cheng… - … on Circuits and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network-on-Chip (NoC) is a scalable on-chip communication architecture for the NN
accelerator, but with the increase in the number of nodes, the communication delay …

Slack-aware packet approximation for energy-efficient network-on-chips

Y Chen, A Louri, S Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network-on-Chips (NoCs) are the standard on-chip communication fabrics for connecting
cores, caches, and memory controllers in multi/many-core systems. With the increase in …

APPROX-NoC: A data approximation framework for network-on-chip architectures

R Boyapati, J Huang, P Majumder, KH Yum… - Proceedings of the 44th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The trend of unsustainable power consumption and large memory bandwidth demands in
massively parallel multicore systems, with the advent of the big data era, has brought upon …

An approximate multiplane network-on-chip

L Wang, Y Wang, X Wang - 2020 Design, Automation & Test in …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing communication demands in chip multiprocessors (CMPs) and many error-
tolerant applications are driving the approximate design of the network-on-chip (NoC) for …