Approximate Computing (AxC) has emerged as a promising paradigm to enhance
performance and energy efficiency by allowing a controlled trade-off between accuracy and …

Approximate computing has emerged as a new computing architecture paradigm that trades
off necessary numerical accuracy for performance. Various approximation operation units …

This article presents an error estimation technique for a data-flow graph (DFG)
representation of an approximate computing (AC) circuit. The technique, which may be used …

Automated frameworks for approximate accelerator synthesis employ an iterative search-
based approach to generate approximate instances of hardware. While offering distinct …

As the need for efficient digital circuits is ever growing in the industry, the design of such
systems remains daunting, requiring both expertise and time. In an attempt to close the gap …

Approximate hardware designs are largely acquired via automated frameworks, most of
which rely on iterative search to find feasible approximate instances in the design space …

Approximate computing has emerged as one way to meet the challenge of improving a
computing system's performance by trading off an application's quality against a target …

FPGA-based architectures have emerged as a versatile acceleration solution for various
applications, aided by High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools. For applications with some level of …

This chapter deals with optimization techniques for the approximate realization of high-level
description of input applications. It includes a study and analysis of different design space …

In a world where required computational capacitities grow exponentially, FPGA based
hardware accelerators are imposing themselves as energy efficient alternatives to general …