Approximate arithmetic circuits: A survey, characterization, and recent applications

H Jiang, FJH Santiago, H Mo, L Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing has emerged as a new paradigm for high-performance and energy-
efficient design of circuits and systems. For the many approximate arithmetic circuits …

Comparison and extension of approximate 4-2 compressors for low-power approximate multipliers

AGM Strollo, E Napoli, D De Caro… - … on Circuits and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate multipliers attract a large interest in the scientific literature that proposes
several circuits built with approximate 4-2 compressors. Due to the large number of …

A survey on approximate multiplier designs for energy efficiency: From algorithms to circuits

Y Wu, C Chen, W Xiao, X Wang, C Wen, J Han… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Approximate multipliers based on new approximate compressors

D Esposito, AGM Strollo, E Napoli… - … on Circuits and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing is an emerging trend in digital design that trades off the requirement
of exact computation for improved speed and power performance. This paper proposes …

A majority-based imprecise multiplier for ultra-efficient approximate image multiplication

F Sabetzadeh, MH Moaiyeri… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing is an emerging approach for reducing the energy consumption and
design complexity in many applications where accuracy is not a crucial necessity. In this …

Approximate logic synthesis: A survey

I Scarabottolo, G Ansaloni… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing is an emerging paradigm that, by relaxing the requirement for full
accuracy, offers benefits in terms of design area and power consumption. This paradigm is …

TOSAM: An energy-efficient truncation-and rounding-based scalable approximate multiplier

S Vahdat, M Kamal, A Afzali-Kusha… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A scalable approximate multiplier, called truncation-and rounding-based scalable
approximate multiplier (TOSAM) is presented, which reduces the number of partial products …

Energy and area efficient imprecise compressors for approximate multiplication at nanoscale

M Ahmadinejad, MH Moaiyeri, F Sabetzadeh - AEU-International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Approximate computing is a new paradigm for designing energy-efficient integrated circuits
at the nanoscale. In this paper, we propose efficient imprecise 4: 2 and 5: 2 compressors by …

Weight-oriented approximation for energy-efficient neural network inference accelerators

ZG Tasoulas, G Zervakis… - … on Circuits and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current research in the area of Neural Networks (NN) has resulted in performance
advancements for a variety of complex problems. Especially, embedded system applications …

Design of ultra-low power consumption approximate 4–2 compressors based on the compensation characteristic

H Pei, X Yi, H Zhou, Y He - … on Circuits and Systems II: Express …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing is tentatively applied in some digital signal processing applications
which have an inherent tolerance for erroneous computing results. The approximate …