SALSA: Systematic logic synthesis of approximate circuits

S Venkataramani, A Sabne, V Kozhikkottu… - Proceedings of the 49th …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Approximate computing has emerged as a new design paradigm that exploits the inherent
error resilience of a wide range of application domains by allowing hardware …

MACACO: Modeling and analysis of circuits for approximate computing

R Venkatesan, A Agarwal, K Roy… - 2011 IEEE/ACM …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing, which refers to a class of techniques that relax the requirement of
exact equivalence between the specification and implementation of a computing system …

BLASYS: Approximate logic synthesis using Boolean matrix factorization

S Hashemi, H Tann, S Reda - Proceedings of the 55th Annual Design …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Approximate computing is an emerging paradigm where design accuracy can be traded off
for benefits in design metrics such as design area, power consumption or circuit complexity …

Substitute-and-simplify: A unified design paradigm for approximate and quality configurable circuits

S Venkataramani, K Roy… - … Design, Automation & …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many applications are inherently resilient to inexactness or approximations in their
underlying computations. Approximate circuit design is an emerging paradigm that exploits …

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 …

Automated high-level generation of low-power approximate computing circuits

K Nepal, S Hashemi, H Tann… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Numerous application domains (eg, signal and image processing, computer graphics,
computer vision, and machine learning) are inherently error tolerant, which can be exploited …

Approximate logic synthesis under general error magnitude and frequency constraints

J Miao, A Gerstlauer… - 2013 IEEE/ACM …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent interest in approximate circuit design is driven by its potential for large energy
savings. In this paper, we address the problem of approximate logic synthesis (ALS). ALS is …

Cross-layer approximate computing: From logic to architectures

M Shafique, R Hafiz, S Rehman, W El-Harouni… - Proceedings of the 53rd …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
We present a survey of approximate techniques and discuss concepts for building power-
/energy-efficient computing components reaching from approximate accelerators to …

Joint precision optimization and high level synthesis for approximate computing

C Li, W Luo, SS Sapatnekar, J Hu - Proceedings of the 52nd annual …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Approximate computing has been recognized as an effective low power technique for
applications with intrinsic error tolerance, such as image processing and machine learning …

Axilog: Language support for approximate hardware design

A Yazdanbakhsh, D Mahajan… - … , Automation & Test …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Relaxing the traditional abstraction of “near-perfect” accuracy in hardware design can lead
to significant gains in energy efficiency, area, and performance. To exploit this opportunity …