Multi-objective application-driven approximate design method

S Barone, M Traiola, M Barbareschi, A Bosio - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate Computing (AxC) paradigm aims at designing computing systems that can
satisfy the rising performance demands and improve the energy efficiency. AxC exploits the …

A Genetic-algorithm-based Approach to the Design of DCT Hardware Accelerators

M Barbareschi, S Barone, A Bosio, J Han… - ACM Journal on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
As modern applications demand an unprecedented level of computational resources,
traditional computing system design paradigms are no longer adequate to guarantee …

The westwood experience: connecting story to locations via mixed reality

J Wither, R Allen, V Samanta… - … on Mixed and …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Westwood Experience is a location-based narrative using Mixed Reality effects to
connect participants to unique and evocative real locations, bridging the gap between the …

Probabilistic estimation of the application-level impact of precision scaling in approximate computing applications

M Traiola, A Savino, S Di Carlo - Microelectronics Reliability, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The introduction of Approximate Computing (AxC) into software allows achieving
several optimizations such as performance improvement, energy reduction, and area …

Jump search: A fast technique for the synthesis of approximate circuits

L Witschen, H Ghasemzadeh Mohammadi… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
State-of-the-art frameworks for generating approximate circuits automatically explore the
search space in an iterative process-often greedily. Synthesis and verification processes are …

An MCTS-based framework for synthesis of approximate circuits

M Awais, HG Mohammadi… - 2018 IFIP/IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing has become a very popular design strategy that exploits error
resilient computations to achieve higher performance and energy efficiency. Automated …

A pruning technique for B&B based design exploration of approximate computing variants

M Barbareschi, F Iannucci… - 2016 IEEE Computer …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate Computing is revealing a new design paradigm which trades algorithms
precision off for enhancing performance parameters, commonly energy consumption and …

LDAX A Learning-based Fast Design Space Exploration Framework for Approximate Circuit Synthesis

M Awais, H Ghasemzadeh Mohammadi… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The majority of existing frameworks for automated synthesis of Approximate Circuits (AxCs)
employ a search-based Design Space Exploration (DSE) approach. This includes an …

Improved learning-based design space exploration for approximate instance generation

MA Rajput, S Alyami, QA Ahmed, H Alshahrani… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Design methodologies for approximation of medium to large-scale accelerators have largely
relied on search-based design space exploration. Due to the enormously sized solution …

Predicting the impact of functional approximation: From component-to application-level

M Traiola, A Savino, M Barbareschi… - 2018 IEEE 24th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate Computing (AxC) trades off between the level of accuracy required by the user
and the actual precision provided by the computing system to achieve several optimizations …