Approximation opportunities in edge computing hardware: A systematic literature review

HJ Damsgaard, A Ometov, J Nurmi - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
With the increasing popularity of the Internet of Things and massive Machine Type
Communication technologies, the number of connected devices is rising. However, although …

X-CGRA: An energy-efficient approximate coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture

O Akbari, M Kamal, A Afzali-Kusha… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we present an energy-efficient approximate CGRA (X-CGRA). Instead of
conventional exact arithmetic units, it employs configurable approximate adders and …

A quality-aware voltage overscaling framework to improve the energy efficiency and lifetime of TPUs based on statistical error modeling

A Senobari, J Vafaei, O Akbari, C Hochberger… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are a type of artificial intelligence models that are inspired by
the structure and function of the human brain, designed to process and learn from large …

Design of approximate booth squarer for error-tolerant computing

KM Reddy, MH Vasantha, YBN Kumar… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To explore the benefits of approximate computing, this article proposes an approximate
partial product generator for squarer (APPGS). Using APPGS, three designs of approximate …

BioCare: An energy-efficient CGRA for bio-signal processing at the edge

Z Ebrahimi, A Kumar - 2021 IEEE International Symposium on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Architectures (CGRAs) have proved to be viable platforms
for health monitoring applications. Targeting energy-efficiency, state-of-the-art (SoA) CGRAs …

ASAP: automatic synthesis of area-efficient and precision-aware CGRAs

C Tan, T Tambe, J Zhang, B Fang, T Geng… - Proceedings of the 36th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Coarse-grained reconfigurable accelerators (CGRAs) are a promising accelerator design
choice that strikes a balance between performance and adaptability to different computing …

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 …

DAEM: A Data-and Application-Aware Error Analysis Methodology for Approximate Adders

MA Hanif, R Hafiz, M Shafique - Information, 2023 - mdpi.com
Approximate adders are some of the fundamental arithmetic operators that are being
employed in error-resilient applications, to achieve performance/energy/area gains. This …

SC-CGRA: An Energy-Efficient CGRA Using Stochastic Computing

D Mou, B Wang, D Liu - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Stochastic Computing (SC) offers a promising computing paradigm for low-power and cost-
effective applications, with the added advantage of high error tolerance. In parallel, Coarse …

GREEN: An Approximate SIMD/MIMD CGRA for Energy-Efficient ProcessiNg at the Edge

Z Ebrahimi, A Kumar - … on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid evolution of compute-intensive programs from bio-signal to image-, and video-
processing has motivated moving toward Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Architectures …