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 …

Evoapprox8b: Library of approximate adders and multipliers for circuit design and benchmarking of approximation methods

V Mrazek, R Hrbacek, Z Vasicek… - Design, Automation & …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate circuits and approximate circuit design methodologies attracted a significant
attention of researchers as well as industry in recent years. In order to accelerate the …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive approximate computing in edge AI and IoT applications: A review

HJ Damsgaard, A Grenier, D Katare, Z Taufique… - Journal of Systems …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent advancements in hardware and software systems have been driven by the
deployment of emerging smart health and mobility applications. These developments have …

Defensive approximation: securing cnns using approximate computing

A Guesmi, I Alouani, KN Khasawneh… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In the past few years, an increasing number of machine-learning and deep learning
structures, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), have been applied to solving a …

AxHLS: Design space exploration and high-level synthesis of approximate accelerators using approximate functional units and analytical models

J Castro-Godínez, J Mateus-Vargas… - Proceedings of the 39th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
With the emergence of approximate computing as a design paradigm, many approximate
functional units have been proposed, particularly approximate adders and multipliers. These …

Comparative study of approximate multipliers

M Masadeh, O Hasan, S Tahar - Proceedings of the 2018 on Great …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Approximate multipliers are widely being advocated for energy-efficient computing in
applications that exhibit an inherent tolerance to inaccuracy. In this paper, we identify three …

Automated search-based functional approximation for digital circuits

L Sekanina, Z Vasicek, V Mrazek - Approximate Circuits: Methodologies …, 2019 - Springer
The problem of developing an approximate implementation of a given combinational circuit
can be formulated as a multi-objective design problem and solved by means of a search …

Polynomial formal verification of approximate adders

M Schnieber, S Froehlich… - 2022 25th Euromicro …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To ensure the functional correctness of digital circuits, formal verification methods have been
established, where the circuits are proven to implement the correct function. Several …

Towards low power approximate DCT architecture for HEVC standard

Z Vasicek, V Mrazek - Design, Automation & Test in Europe …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Video processing performed directly on IoT nodes is one of the most performance as well as
energy demanding applications for current IoT technology. In order to support real-time high …

Low power and area efficient error tolerant adder for image processing application

M Priyadharshni, S Kumaravel - International Journal of Circuit …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Approximate computing‐based arithmetic units are oriented towards reduction in power,
delay, and area. Intrinsic error tolerance capability of emerging application domains, like …