Circuit-level techniques for logic and memory blocks in approximate computing systemsx

S Amanollahi, M Kamal, A Afzali-Kusha… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an overview of circuit-level techniques used for approximate computing
(AC), including both computation and data storage units. After providing some background …

Design exploration of energy-efficient accuracy-configurable dadda multipliers with improved lifetime based on voltage overscaling

H Afzali-Kusha, M Vaeztourshizi… - … Transactions on Very …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates an energy-efficient accuracy-configurable Dadda (X-Dadda)
multiplier. The structure employs the voltage overscaling and approximate width setting as …

Energy and reliability improvement of voltage-based, clustered, coarse-grain reconfigurable architectures by employing quality-aware mapping

H Afzali-Kusha, O Akbari, M Kamal… - IEEE Journal on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An energy-quality scalable coarse grain reconfigurable architecture (CGRA) based on the
voltage overscaling (VOS) technique is presented. The approximation level of each …

An Energy-Efficient Generic Accuracy Configurable Multiplier Based on Block-Level Voltage Overscaling

AA Bahoo, O Akbari, M Shafique - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Voltage Overscaling (VOS) is one of the well-known techniques to increase the energy
efficiency of arithmetic units. Also, it can provide significant lifetime improvements, while still …

Proactive aging mitigation in CGRAs through utilization-aware allocation

M Brandalero, BN Lignati, ACS Beck… - 2020 57th ACM/IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Resource balancing has been effectively used to mitigate the long-term aging effects of
Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) in multi-core and Graphics Processing Unit …

OPTIMA: an approach for online management of cache approximation levels in approximate processing systems

R Yarmand, M Kamal, A Afzali-Kusha… - … Transactions on Very …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we present an approach for adjusting the approximation levels of the cache
memories in the memory hierarchy of an approximate processing system. The technique …

[引用][C] Voltage over Scaling-Based Dadda Multipliers for Energy-Efficient Accuracy Design Exploration

B Swarnalatha, N Umapathi - Specialusis Ugdymas, 2022