Approximate hybrid high radix encoding for energy-efficient inexact multipliers

V Leon, G Zervakis, D Soudris… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing forms a design alternative that exploits the intrinsic error resilience
of various applications and produces energy-efficient circuits with small accuracy loss. In this …

Approximate designs for fast Fourier transform (FFT) with application to speech recognition

W Liu, Q Liao, F Qiao, W Xia, C Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents different approximate designs for computing the FFT. The tradeoff
between accuracy and performance is achieved by adjusting the word length in each …

Cooperative arithmetic-aware approximation techniques for energy-efficient multipliers

V Leon, K Asimakopoulos, S Xydis, D Soudris… - Proceedings of the 56th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Approximate computing appears as an emerging and promising solution for energy-efficient
system designs, exploiting the inherent error-tolerant nature of various applications. In this …

Opportunities for energy efficient computing: A study of inexact general purpose processors for high-performance and big-data applications

P Düben, S Yenugula, J Augustine… - … , Automation & Test …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we demonstrate that disproportionate gains are possible through a simple
devise for injecting inexactness or approximation into the hardware architecture of a …

A novel area-power efficient design for approximated small-point FFT architecture

X Han, J Chen, B Qin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fast Fourier transform (FFT) is an essential algorithm in digital signal processing and
advanced mobile communications. With the continuous development of modern technology …

VOSsim: A framework for enabling fast voltage overscaling simulation for approximate computing circuits

G Zervakis, F Ntouskas, S Xydis… - … Transactions on Very …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing emerges as a new design paradigm for generating energy-efficient
computing systems. Voltage overscaling (VOS) forms a very promising technique to …

Approximate floating-point FFT design with wide precision-range and high energy efficiency

C Wen, Y Wu, X Yin, C Zhuo - Proceedings of the 28th Asia and South …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is a key digital signal processing algorithm that is widely
deployed in mobile and portable devices. Recently, with the popularity of human perception …

Genetic programming for energy-efficient and energy-scalable approximate feature computation in embedded inference systems

J Lu, H Jia, N Verma, NK Jha - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increasing interest in deploying embedded sensors in a range of applications, there
is also interest in deploying embedded inference capabilities. Doing so under the strict and …

From Circuits to SoC Processors: Arithmetic Approximation Techniques & Embedded Computing Methodologies for DSP Acceleration

V Leon - arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.12194, 2023 - arxiv.org
The computing industry is forced to find alternative design approaches and computing
platforms to sustain increased power efficiency, while providing sufficient performance …

Approximate Toom–Cook FFT with sparsity aware error tuning in a shared memory architecture

MS Ahmed, M Kalesha, A Zahra, Z Abbas - Integration, 2023 - Elsevier
Approximate Computing techniques are finding a central role in modern applications, by
optimizing architectures to relax some computation but with a constrained inaccuracy. In …