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 …

Often as the most important arithmetic modules in a processor, adders, multipliers, and
dividers determine the performance and energy efficiency of many computing tasks. The …

A multiplier has a significant impact on the speed and power dissipation of an arithmetic
processor. Precise results are not always required in many algorithms, such as those for …

This paper presents the design of approximate 15-4 compressor using 5-3 compressors as
basic module. Four different types of approximate 5-3 compressors are used in a 15-4 …

Arithmetic circuits are important computing modules in a processor. They play a key role in
the performance and the energy consumption of many image processing applications. In this …

Multipliers are an integral block of a wide range of error-resilient applications like audio,
image, and video processing, and machine learning. However, these multiplier architectures …

Approximate adders have been considered as a potential alternative for error-tolerant
applications to trade off some accuracy for gains in other circuit-based metrics, such as …

A Comparative Study of Approximate Adders and Multipliers Page 1 A Comparative Study of
Approximate Adders and Multipliers Honglan Jiang*, Cong Liu*, Naman Maheshwari#, Fabrizio …

A compressor is an attractive paradigm to design energy-efficient DSP systems. Multiplier
consumes more power and much time for arithmetic operations in digital signal processors …

Background: Approximate computing is an emerging trend in recent years that trades off the
requirement of exact computation for the improvement of speed and power performance …