A survey of encoding techniques for reducing data-movement energy

S Mittal, S Nag - Journal of Systems Architecture, 2019 - Elsevier
In modern processors, data-movement consumes two orders of magnitude higher energy
than a floating-point operation and hence, data-movement is becoming the primary …

AXSERBUS: A quality-configurable approximate serial bus for energy-efficient sensing

Y Kim, S Behroozi, V Raghunathan… - 2017 IEEE/ACM …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile, wearable, and implantable devices integrate an increasing number and variety of
sensors such as microphones, image sensors, and accelerometers. These devices spend …

An improved low-power coding for serial network-on-chip links

S Velayudham, S Rajagopal, SB Ko - Circuits, Systems, and Signal …, 2020 - Springer
In the fast nanosilicon revolution era, network-on-chip (NoC) architecture offers a significant
research solution to on-chip multiprocessor-based real-time applications. As the number of …

Serial T0: Approximate bus encoding for energy-efficient transmission of sensor signals

DJ Pagliari, E Macii, M Poncino - Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Design …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Off-chip serial buses are common in embedded systems, and due to the long physical lines,
can contribute significantly to their energy consumption. However, these buses are often …

Zero-transition serial encoding for image sensors

DJ Pagliari, E Macii, M Poncino - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Off-chip serial buses are the most common interfaces between sensors and processing
elements in embedded systems. Due to their length, these connections dissipate a large …

Approximate differential encoding for energy-efficient serial communication

D Jahier Pagliari, E Macii, M Poncino - … of the 26th edition on Great …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Embedded computing systems include several off-chip serial links, that are typically used to
interface processing elements with peripherals, such as sensors, actuators and I/O …

Approximate energy-efficient encoding for serial interfaces

DJ Pagliari, E Macii, M Poncino - ACM Transactions on Design …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Serial buses are ubiquitous interconnections in embedded computing systems that are used
to interface processing elements with peripherals, such as sensors, actuators, and I/O …

ACME: An Energy-Efficient Approximate Bus Encoding for I2C

C Xie, DJ Pagliari, A Calimera, E Macii… - 2021 IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In ultra low power systems with many peripherals, off-chip serial interconnects contribute
significantly to the total energy budget. Leveraging the error-resilience characteristics of …

Energy-efficient encoding for high-speed serial interfaces

E Maragkoudaki, W Toms… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy consumption has become a bottleneck in modern integrated circuits (ICs) with a
significant part of the energy spent on data communication. High-speed, serial interfaces are …

Latency-Optimized Design of Data Bus Inversion

S Pae, KW Kwon - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper proposes two new encoders for data bus inversion (DBI), which conventionally
uses a majority voter to pick a data representation that minimizes switching activities and …