A survey on approximate multiplier designs for energy efficiency: From algorithms to circuits

Y Wu, C Chen, W Xiao, X Wang, C Wen, J Han… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Given the stringent requirements of energy efficiency for Internet-of-Things edge devices,
approximate multipliers, as a basic component of many processors and accelerators, have …

A survey on machine learning accelerators and evolutionary hardware platforms

S Bavikadi, A Dhavlle, A Ganguly… - IEEE Design & …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Advanced computing systems have long been enablers for breakthroughs in artificial
intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms, either through sheer computational …

AxBMs: Approximate radix-8 booth multipliers for high-performance FPGA-based accelerators

H Waris, C Wang, W Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The focus of existing designs on approximate radix-8 Booth multipliers has been on ASIC-
based platforms. These multipliers are based on an approximation as defined for ASIC …

AppAxO: Designing Application-specific Approximate Operators for FPGA-based Embedded Systems

S Ullah, SS Sahoo, N Ahmed, D Chaudhury… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Approximate arithmetic operators, such as adders and multipliers, are increasingly used to
satisfy the energy and performance requirements of resource-constrained embedded …

AxOSpike: Spiking Neural Networks-Driven Approximate Operator Design

S Ullah, SS Sahoo, A Kumar - IEEE Transactions on Computer …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing (AxC) is being widely researched as a viable approach to deploying
compute-intensive artificial intelligence (AI) applications on resource-constrained embedded …

AxOTreeS: A Tree Search Approach to Synthesizing FPGA-based Approximate Operators

SS Sahoo, S Ullah, A Kumar - ACM Transactions on Embedded …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Approximate computing (AxC) provides the scope for achieving disproportionate gains in a
system's power, performance, and area (PPA) metrics by leveraging an application's …

Energy efficient logarithmic-based approximate divider for ASIC and FPGA-based implementations

N Arya, T Soni, M Pattanaik, GK Sharma - Microprocessors and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The main focus of approximate dividers has been on ASIC-based designs. However, for
emerging applications, there is a need to design approximate arithmetic units compatible …

SyFAxO-GeN: Synthesizing FPGA-based approximate operators with generative networks

R Ranjan, S Ullah, SS Sahoo, A Kumar - … of the 28th Asia and South …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
With rising trends of moving AI inference to the edge, due to communication and privacy
challenges, there has been a growing focus on designing low-cost Edge-AI. Given the …

[HTML][HTML] FPGA approximate logic synthesis through catalog-based AIG-rewriting technique

M Barbareschi, S Barone, N Mazzocca… - Journal of Systems …, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to their run-time reconfigurability, short time-to-market, and lower prototype costs,
FPGAs have become increasingly popular since their introduction. They found use in a wide …

AMG: Automated Efficient Approximate Multiplier Generator for FPGAs via Bayesian Optimization

Z Li, H Zhou, L Wang, X Zhou - 2023 International Conference …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose AMG, an open-source automated approximate multiplier generator for FPGAs
driven by Bayesian optimization (BO) with parallel evaluation. The proposed method …