Analysis and characterization of inherent application resilience for approximate computing

VK Chippa, ST Chakradhar, K Roy… - Proceedings of the 50th …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Approximate computing is an emerging design paradigm that enables highly efficient
hardware and software implementations by exploiting the inherent resilience of applications …

AxNN: Energy-efficient neuromorphic systems using approximate computing

S Venkataramani, A Ranjan, K Roy… - Proceedings of the 2014 …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Neuromorphic algorithms, which are comprised of highly complex, large-scale networks of
artificial neurons, are increasingly used for a variety of recognition, classification, search and …

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 …

Quality programmable vector processors for approximate computing

S Venkataramani, VK Chippa, ST Chakradhar… - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Approximate computing leverages the intrinsic resilience of applications to inexactness in
their computations, to achieve a desirable trade-off between efficiency (performance or …

Scalable effort hardware design: Exploiting algorithmic resilience for energy efficiency

VK Chippa, D Mohapatra, A Raghunathan… - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Algorithms from several interesting application domains exhibit the property of inherent
resilience to" errors" from extrinsic or intrinsic sources, offering entirely new avenues for …

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 …

Efficient AI system design with cross-layer approximate computing

S Venkataramani, X Sun, N Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Advances in deep neural networks (DNNs) and the availability of massive real-world data
have enabled superhuman levels of accuracy on many AI tasks and ushered the explosive …

Scalable effort hardware design

VK Chippa, D Mohapatra, K Roy… - … Transactions on Very …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Applications from several application domains exhibit the property of inherent application
resilience, offering entirely new avenues for performance and power optimization by …

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 …

DeMAS: An efficient design methodology for building approximate adders for FPGA-based systems

BS Prabakaran, S Rehman, MA Hanif… - … , Automation & Test …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current state-of-the-art approximate adders are mostly ASIC-based, ie, they focus solely
on gate and/or transistor level approximations (eg, through circuit simplification or …