A Reconfigurable Approximate Computing RISC-V Platform for Fault-Tolerant Applications

A Delavari, F Ghoreishy… - 2024 27th Euromicro …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The demand for energy-efficient and high-performance embedded systems drives the
evolution of new hardware architectures, including concepts like approximate computing …

SmartApprox: Learning-based configuration of approximate memories for energy-efficient execution

J Fabrício Filho, I Felzmann, L Wanner - … Computing: Informatics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Approximate memories reduce power and increase energy efficiency, at the expense of
errors in stored data. These errors may be tolerated, up to a point, by many applications with …

Approximate Memory with Protected Static Allocation

J Fabrício Filho, I Felzmann… - 2022 IEEE 34th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate memories provide energy savings or performance improvements at the cost of
occasional errors in stored data. Applications that tolerate errors on their data profit from this …

Evaluation of Run-Time Energy Efficiency using Controlled Approximation in a RISC-V Core

A Delavari, F Ghoreishy, HS Shahhoseini… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The limited energy available in most embedded systems poses a significant challenge in
enhancing the performance of embedded processors and microcontrollers. One promising …

Special Session: How much quality is enough quality? A case for acceptability in approximate designs

I Felzmann, J Fabrício Filho… - 2021 IEEE 39th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate systems are designed to offer improved efficiency with potentially reduced
quality of results. Quality of output in these systems is typically quantified in comparison to a …