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 …

Approximate Computing: Concepts, Architectures, Challenges, Applications, and Future Directions

AM Dalloo, AJ Humaidi, AK Al Mhdawi… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The unprecedented progress in computational technologies led to a substantial proliferation
of artificial intelligence applications, notably in the era of big data and IoT devices. In the …

FPGA-based multi-level approximate multipliers for high-performance error-resilient applications

N Van Toan, JG Lee - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents approximate multipliers which are efficiently deployed on Field
Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) by using newly proposed approximate logic …

Circuit-level techniques for logic and memory blocks in approximate computing systemsx

S Amanollahi, M Kamal, A Afzali-Kusha… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an overview of circuit-level techniques used for approximate computing
(AC), including both computation and data storage units. After providing some background …

[HTML][HTML] A Survey on Design Space Exploration Approaches for Approximate Computing Systems

S Saeedi, A Piri, B Deveautour, I O'connor, A Bosio… - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Approximate Computing (AxC) has emerged as a promising paradigm to enhance
performance and energy efficiency by allowing a controlled trade-off between accuracy and …

Minotaur: Adapting software testing techniques for hardware errors

A Mahmoud, R Venkatagiri, K Ahmed… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
With the end of conventional CMOS scaling, efficient resiliency solutions are needed to
address the increased likelihood of hardware errors. Silent data corruptions (SDCs) are …

High-level synthesis of approximate designs under real-time constraints

MT Leipnitz, GL Nazar - ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The adoption of High-Level Synthesis (HLS) has increased as the latest HLS tools have
evolved to provide high-quality results while improving productivity and time-to-market …

Toward self-tunable approximate computing

S Xu, BC Schafer - IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many applications show tolerance to inaccuracies. These can be exploited to build faster
circuits with smaller area and lower power. This is particularly true for the hardware …

Model-based design space exploration for approximate image processing on FPGA

M Manuel, A Kreddig, S Conrady… - 2020 IEEE Nordic …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increasing demands on computational performance are outpacing the technological
improvements in computer hardware. Approximate computing provides a recent approach to …

Design, verification, test and in-field implications of approximate computing systems

A Bosio, S Di Carlo, P Girard, E Sanchez… - 2020 IEEE European …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Today, the concept of approximation in computing is becoming more and more a “hot topic”
to investigate how computing systems can be more energy efficient, faster, and less …