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 …

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 …

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 …

ASLAN: Synthesis of approximate sequential circuits

A Ranjan, A Raha, S Venkataramani… - … , Automation & Test …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many applications produce acceptable results when their underlying computations are
executed in an approximate manner. For such applications, approximate circuits enable …

Modeling and synthesis of quality-energy optimal approximate adders

J Miao, K He, A Gerstlauer, M Orshansky - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Recent interest in approximate computation is driven by its potential to achieve large energy
savings. This paper formally demonstrates an optimal way to reduce energy via voltage over …

Energy-efficient system design for IoT devices

H Jayakumar, A Raha, Y Kim, S Sutar… - 2016 21st Asia and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is projected that, within the coming decade, there will be more than 50 billion smart objects
connected to the Internet of Things (IoT). These smart objects, which connect the physical …

Design and applications of approximate circuits by gate-level pruning

J Schlachter, V Camus, KV Palem… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy-efficiency is a critical concern for many systems, ranging from Internet of things
objects and mobile devices to high-performance computers. Moreover, after 40 years of …

Ten years of building broken chips: The physics and engineering of inexact computing

K Palem, A Lingamneni - ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Well over a decade ago, many believed that an engine of growth driving the semiconductor
and computing industries---captured nicely by Gordon Moore's remarkable prophecy …

ERSA: Error resilient system architecture for probabilistic applications

H Cho, L Leem, S Mitra - IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There is a growing concern about the increasing vulnerability of future computing systems to
errors in the underlying hardware. Traditional redundancy techniques are expensive for …

Approximation-aware rewriting of AIGs for error tolerant applications

A Chandrasekharan, M Soeken… - 2016 IEEE/ACM …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximation circuits offer superior performance (speed and area) compared to traditional
circuits at the cost of computational accuracy. The accuracy of the results in approximation …