Approximate arithmetic circuits: A survey, characterization, and recent applications
Approximate computing has emerged as a new paradigm for high-performance and energy-
efficient design of circuits and systems. For the many approximate arithmetic circuits …
efficient design of circuits and systems. For the many approximate arithmetic circuits …
A review, classification, and comparative evaluation of approximate arithmetic circuits
Often as the most important arithmetic modules in a processor, adders, multipliers, and
dividers determine the performance and energy efficiency of many computing tasks. The …
dividers determine the performance and energy efficiency of many computing tasks. The …
Adaptive and energy-efficient architectures for machine learning: Challenges, opportunities, and research roadmap
Gigantic rates of data production in the era of Big Data, Internet of Thing (IoT)/Internet of
Everything (IoE), and Cyber Physical Systems (CSP) pose incessantly escalating demands …
Everything (IoE), and Cyber Physical Systems (CSP) pose incessantly escalating demands …
Libraries of approximate circuits: Automated design and application in CNN accelerators
Libraries of approximate circuits are composed of fully characterized digital circuits that can
be used as building blocks of energy-efficient implementations of hardware accelerators …
be used as building blocks of energy-efficient implementations of hardware accelerators …
autoax: An automatic design space exploration and circuit building methodology utilizing libraries of approximate components
Approximate computing is an emerging paradigm for developing highly energy-efficient
computing systems such as various accelerators. In the literature, many libraries of …
computing systems such as various accelerators. In the literature, many libraries of …
DeMAS: An efficient design methodology for building approximate adders for FPGA-based systems
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 …
on gate and/or transistor level approximations (eg, through circuit simplification or …
AxHLS: Design space exploration and high-level synthesis of approximate accelerators using approximate functional units and analytical models
J Castro-Godínez, J Mateus-Vargas… - Proceedings of the 39th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
With the emergence of approximate computing as a design paradigm, many approximate
functional units have been proposed, particularly approximate adders and multipliers. These …
functional units have been proposed, particularly approximate adders and multipliers. These …
Formal methods for exact analysis of approximate circuits
Z Vasicek - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate circuits are digital circuits that are intentionally designed in such a way that the
specification is violated in terms of functionality in order to obtain some improvements in …
specification is violated in terms of functionality in order to obtain some improvements in …
Approximating complex arithmetic circuits with formal error guarantees: 32-bit multipliers accomplished
We present a novel method allowing one to approximate complex arithmetic circuits with
formal guarantees on the approximation error. The method integrates in a unique way formal …
formal guarantees on the approximation error. The method integrates in a unique way formal …
MACISH: Designing approximate MAC accelerators with internal-self-healing
Approximate computing studies the quality-efficiency trade-off to attain a best-efficiency (eg,
area, latency, and power) design for a given quality constraint and vice versa. Recently, self …
area, latency, and power) design for a given quality constraint and vice versa. Recently, self …