Approximate computing survey, Part II: Application-specific & architectural approximation techniques and applications

V Leon, MA Hanif, G Armeniakos, X Jiao… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The challenging deployment of compute-intensive applications from domains such as
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Signal Processing (DSP), forces the community of …

Approximate computing survey, Part I: terminology and software & hardware approximation techniques

V Leon, MA Hanif, G Armeniakos, X Jiao… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The rapid growth of demanding applications in domains applying multimedia processing
and machine learning has marked a new era for edge and cloud computing. These …

HPR-Mul: An Area and Energy-Efficient High-Precision Redundancy Multiplier by Approximate Computing

J Vafaei, O Akbari - IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For critical applications that require a higher level of reliability, the triple modular
redundancy (TMR) scheme is usually employed to implement fault-tolerant arithmetic units …

Result-based re-computation for error-tolerant classification by a support vector machine

S Liu, P Reviriego, X Tang, W Tang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are widely used in Machine Learning (ML) to perform
classification. For a given element, an SVM computes a value using a kernel function and …

A survey of testing techniques for approximate integrated circuits

M Traiola, A Virazel, P Girard… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing (AxC) is increasingly emerging as a new design paradigm to
produce more efficient computation systems by judiciously reducing the computation quality …

Four Reduced Precision Redundancy by Approximation (4RPA): Design and Analysis of 4-Module Systems

S Junsangsri, F Lombardi - IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reduced precision redundancy (RPR) has been widely used as an alternative to triple
modular redundancy to enhance reliable computing with tolerance to errors and faults; …

Efficient diverse redundant DNNs for autonomous driving

M Caro, J Fornt, J Abella - 2023 IEEE 47th Annual Computers …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automotive applications with safety requirements must adhere to specific regulations such
as ISO 26262, which imposes the use of diverse redundancy for the highest integrity levels …

Evaluating reduced resolution redundancy for radiation hardening in fpga designs

LA García-Astudillo, A Lindoso… - … on Nuclear Science, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radiation hardening by design (RHBD) is traditionally performed using triple modular
redundancy (TMR), a very effective technique that introduces high overheads in terms of …

Voting Margin: A Scheme for Error-Tolerant k Nearest Neighbors Classifiers for Machine Learning

S Liu, P Reviriego, JA Hernández… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning (ML) techniques such as classifiers are used in many applications, some
of which are related to safety or critical systems. In this case, correct processing is a strict …

CNTFET-based ternary multiply-and-accumulate unit

A Mohammaden, ME Fouda, I Alouani, LA Said… - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Multiply-Accumulate (MAC) is one of the most commonly used operations in modern
computing systems due to its use in matrix multiplication, signal processing, and in new …