Risk-5: Controlled approximations for RISC-V

I Felzmann, J Fabrício Filho… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate Computing offers enhanced energy efficiency by exploring quality relaxation
on applications. Application-agnostic hardware-level techniques can provide high benefits …

SmartApprox: Learning-based configuration of approximate memories for energy-efficient execution

J Fabrício Filho, I Felzmann, L Wanner - … Computing: Informatics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Approximate memories reduce power and increase energy efficiency, at the expense of
errors in stored data. These errors may be tolerated, up to a point, by many applications with …

Approximate Memory with Protected Static Allocation

J Fabrício Filho, I Felzmann… - 2022 IEEE 34th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate memories provide energy savings or performance improvements at the cost of
occasional errors in stored data. Applications that tolerate errors on their data profit from this …

AxPIKE: instruction-level injection and evaluation of approximate computing

I Felzmann, J Fabrício Filho… - 2021 Design, Automation …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Representing the interaction between accurate and approximate hardware modules at the
architecture level is essential to understand the impact of Approximate Computing in a …

Special Session: How much quality is enough quality? A case for acceptability in approximate designs

I Felzmann, J Fabrício Filho… - 2021 IEEE 39th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate systems are designed to offer improved efficiency with potentially reduced
quality of results. Quality of output in these systems is typically quantified in comparison to a …

Transparent resilience for approximate DRAM

J Fabrício Filho, I Felzmann, L Wanner - International Conference on …, 2021 - Springer
Approximate DRAM can reduce energy consumption by exposing application data to
probabilistic errors. However, not all data is amenable to approximation, and errors in …

Special issue on Advancing on Approximate Computing: Methodologies, Architectures and Algorithms

M Barbareschi, A Bosio, L Sekanina, C Braun - Future Generation …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the modern computing era, characterized by saturated performance and high production
costs, Approximate Computing has been representing the most attractive breakthrough for …

[HTML][HTML] Approximate Computing: Techniques, Challenges and Applications

JR Stanley-Owusu - lancaster.ac.uk
Approximate Computing is a fairly new computing paradigm that aims at optimising
execution time, improving performance and energy efficiency by sacrificing accuracy of …