DrAx: An automatic approach to designing more precise and energy-efficient approximate adders

M Rezaalipour, S Tajasob… - 2018 Real-Time and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As Moore's Law scaling tapers off, there is a growing emphasis on improving the energy-
efficiency of nanometer ICs through architectural techniques. Recently, approximate …

A double bit approximate adder providing a new design perspective for gate-level design

N Maroof, AY Al-Zahrani - Journal of Circuits, Systems and …, 2022 - World Scientific
In the modern Block-chain and Artificial Intelligence era, energy efficiency has become one
of the most important design concerns. Approximate computing is a new and an evolving …

Approximate adder with reduced error

P Balasubramanian, DL Maskell… - 2019 IEEE 31st …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new approximate adder is proposed, which is suitable for FPGA-and ASIC-based
implementations. Here, we consider an Artix-7 FPGA for the implementations using Vivado …

QuAd: Design and analysis of quality-area optimal low-latency approximate adders

MA Hanif, R Hafiz, O Hasan, M Shafique - Proceedings of the 54th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Approximate circuits exploit error resilience property of applications to tradeoff computation
quality (accuracy) for gaining advantage in terms of performance, power, and/or area. While …

DeMAS: An efficient design methodology for building approximate adders for FPGA-based systems

BS Prabakaran, S Rehman, MA Hanif… - … , Automation & Test …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current state-of-the-art approximate adders are mostly ASIC-based, ie, they focus solely
on gate and/or transistor level approximations (eg, through circuit simplification or …

A comparative survey of approximate adders

S Dutt, S Nandi, G Trivedi - 2016 26th International Conference …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The gap between capabilities of CMOS technology scaling and requirements of future
application workloads is increasing rapidly. There are several promising design approaches …

Coherent design of hybrid approximate adders: Unified design framework and metrics

A Najafi, M Weißbrich, G Payá-Vayá… - IEEE Journal on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Numerous approximate adders have been proposed in the literature in response to the
languishing benefits of technology scaling. However, they have been obtained with an ad …

A novel approach for fast and accurate mean error distance computation in approximate adders

AS Roy, AS Dhar - 2018 IEEE International Symposium on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In error-tolerant applications, approximate adders have been exploited extensively to
achieve energy efficient system designs. Mean error distance is one of the important error …

Designing efficient imprecise adders using multi-bit approximate building blocks

S Tajasob, M Rezaalipour, M Dehyadegari… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Energy-efficiency has become a major concern in designing computer systems. One of the
most promising solutions to enhance power and energy-efficiency in error tolerant …

Enhance the segmentation principle in approximate computing

A Dalloo - 2018 International Conference on Circuits and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exploiting the trade-off between accuracy and hardware cost has a tremendous potential to
improve the efficiency of integrated systems. Using this concept, numerous approximate …