Approximate arithmetic circuits: A survey, characterization, and recent applications

H Jiang, FJH Santiago, H Mo, L Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Hardware approximate techniques for deep neural network accelerators: A survey

G Armeniakos, G Zervakis, D Soudris… - ACM Computing …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are very popular because of their high performance in
various cognitive tasks in Machine Learning (ML). Recent advancements in DNNs have …

A review, classification, and comparative evaluation of approximate arithmetic circuits

H Jiang, C Liu, L Liu, F Lombardi, J Han - ACM Journal on Emerging …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Multipliers with approximate 4–2 compressors and error recovery modules

M Ha, S Lee - IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate multiplication is a common operation used in approximate computing methods
for high performance and low power computing. Power-efficient circuits for approximate …

Low-power approximate multipliers using encoded partial products and approximate compressors

MS Ansari, H Jiang, BF Cockburn… - IEEE journal on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing has been considered to improve the accuracy-performance tradeoff
in error-tolerant applications. For many of these applications, multiplication is a key …

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 …

RoBA multiplier: A rounding-based approximate multiplier for high-speed yet energy-efficient digital signal processing

R Zendegani, M Kamal, M Bahadori… - … Transactions on Very …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose an approximate multiplier that is high speed yet energy efficient.
The approach is to round the operands to the nearest exponent of two. This way the …

Design and evaluation of approximate logarithmic multipliers for low power error-tolerant applications

W Liu, J Xu, D Wang, C Wang… - … on Circuits and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the designs of both non-iterative and iterative approximate logarithmic
multipliers (ALMs) are studied to further reduce power consumption and improve …

Architectural-space exploration of approximate multipliers

S Rehman, W El-Harouni, M Shafique… - 2016 IEEE/ACM …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an architectural-space exploration methodology for designing
approximate multipliers. Unlike state-of-the-art, our methodology generates various design …

High-performance accurate and approximate multipliers for FPGA-based hardware accelerators

S Ullah, S Rehman, M Shafique… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiplication is one of the widely used arithmetic operations in a variety of applications,
such as image/video processing and machine learning. FPGA vendors provide high …