Given the stringent requirements of energy efficiency for Internet-of-Things edge devices,
approximate multipliers, as a basic component of many processors and accelerators, have …

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 …

In this paper, we propose four 4: 2 compressors, which have the flexibility of switching
between the exact and approximate operating modes. In the approximate mode, these dual …

Approximate multiplication is a common operation used in approximate computing methods
for high performance and low power computing. Power-efficient circuits for approximate …

Recent advancements in hardware and software systems have been driven by the
deployment of emerging smart health and mobility applications. These developments have …

A scalable approximate multiplier, called truncation-and rounding-based scalable
approximate multiplier (TOSAM) is presented, which reduces the number of partial products …

Approximate computing forms a design alternative that exploits the intrinsic error resilience
of various applications and produces energy-efficient circuits with small accuracy loss. In this …

This paper proposes energy-efficient approximate multipliers based on the Mitchell's log
multiplication, optimized for performing inferences on convolutional neural networks (CNN) …

High speed multimedia applications have paved way for a whole new area in high speed
error-tolerant circuits with approximate computing. These applications deliver high …

Approximate computing is a promising approach for reducing power consumption and
design complexity in applications that accuracy is not a crucial factor. Approximate …