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 …

Hardware approximate techniques for deep neural network accelerators: A survey

G Armeniakos, G Zervakis, D Soudris… - ACM Computing …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are very popular because of their high performance in
various cognitive tasks in Machine Learning (ML). Recent advancements in DNNs have …

Comparison and extension of approximate 4-2 compressors for low-power approximate multipliers

AGM Strollo, E Napoli, D De Caro… - … on Circuits and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate multipliers attract a large interest in the scientific literature that proposes
several circuits built with approximate 4-2 compressors. Due to the large number of …

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 …

Dual-quality 4: 2 compressors for utilizing in dynamic accuracy configurable multipliers

O Akbari, M Kamal, A Afzali-Kusha… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose four 4: 2 compressors, which have the flexibility of switching
between the exact and approximate operating modes. In the approximate mode, these dual …

Approximate logic synthesis: A survey

I Scarabottolo, G Ansaloni… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing is an emerging paradigm that, by relaxing the requirement for full
accuracy, offers benefits in terms of design area and power consumption. This paradigm is …

End-to-end multi-modal multi-task vehicle control for self-driving cars with visual perceptions

Z Yang, Y Zhang, J Yu, J Cai… - 2018 24th international …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been successfully applied to autonomous
driving tasks, many in an end-to-end manner. Previous end-to-end steering control methods …

Cross-layer approximate computing: From logic to architectures

M Shafique, R Hafiz, S Rehman, W El-Harouni… - Proceedings of the 53rd …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
We present a survey of approximate techniques and discuss concepts for building power-
/energy-efficient computing components reaching from approximate accelerators to …

High-performance accurate and approximate multipliers for FPGA-based hardware accelerators

S Ullah, S Rehman, M Shafique… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiplication is one of the widely used arithmetic operations in a variety of applications,
such as image/video processing and machine learning. FPGA vendors provide high …

RAP-CLA: A reconfigurable approximate carry look-ahead adder

O Akbari, M Kamal, A Afzali-Kusha… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this brief, we propose a fast yet energy-efficient reconfigurable approximate carry look-
ahead adder (RAP-CLA). This adder has the ability of switching between the approximate …