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 …

A survey paper on design and implementation of multipliers for digital system applications

S Immareddy, A Sundaramoorthy - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2022 - Springer
Multiplication is one of the essential functions in all digital systems. The evaluation of digital
system, have brought out new challenges in VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) designing …

Approximate multipliers using static segmentation: Error analysis and improvements

AGM Strollo, E Napoli, D De Caro… - … on Circuits and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate multipliers are used in error-tolerant applications, sacrificing the accuracy of
results to minimize power or delay. In this paper we investigate approximate multipliers …

Libraries of approximate circuits: Automated design and application in CNN accelerators

V Mrazek, L Sekanina, Z Vasicek - IEEE Journal on Emerging …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Libraries of approximate circuits are composed of fully characterized digital circuits that can
be used as building blocks of energy-efficient implementations of hardware accelerators …

Design and analysis of energy-efficient dynamic range approximate logarithmic multipliers for machine learning

P Yin, C Wang, H Waris, W Liu, Y Han… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing provides an emerging approach to design high performance and
low power arithmetic circuits. The logarithmic multiplier (LM) converts multiplication into …

Special session: Approximation and fault resiliency of dnn accelerators

MH Ahmadilivani, M Barbareschi… - 2023 IEEE 41st VLSI …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep Learning, and in particular, Deep Neural Network (DNN) is nowadays widely used in
many scenarios, including safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving. In this …

Formal methods for exact analysis of approximate circuits

Z Vasicek - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate circuits are digital circuits that are intentionally designed in such a way that the
specification is violated in terms of functionality in order to obtain some improvements in …

MACISH: Designing approximate MAC accelerators with internal-self-healing

GA Gillani, MA Hanif, B Verstoep, SH Gerez… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing studies the quality-efficiency trade-off to attain a best-efficiency (eg,
area, latency, and power) design for a given quality constraint and vice versa. Recently, self …

Compressor based hybrid approximate multiplier architectures with efficient error correction logic

AK Uppugunduru, SV Bharadwaj, SE Ahmed - Computers and Electrical …, 2022 - Elsevier
A new approximate unsigned multiplier architecture has been proposed in this paper, which
aims to minimize the area utilized and power consumed while maintaining high accuracy …

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 …