Weight-oriented approximation for energy-efficient neural network inference accelerators

ZG Tasoulas, G Zervakis… - … on Circuits and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current research in the area of Neural Networks (NN) has resulted in performance
advancements for a variety of complex problems. Especially, embedded system applications …

Majority-based spin-CMOS primitives for approximate computing

S Angizi, H Jiang, RF DeMara, J Han… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Promising for digital signal processing applications, approximate computing has been
extensively considered to tradeoff limited accuracy for improvements in other circuit metrics …

Circuit-level techniques for logic and memory blocks in approximate computing systemsx

S Amanollahi, M Kamal, A Afzali-Kusha… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an overview of circuit-level techniques used for approximate computing
(AC), including both computation and data storage units. After providing some background …

[HTML][HTML] A Survey on Design Space Exploration Approaches for Approximate Computing Systems

S Saeedi, A Piri, B Deveautour, I O'connor, A Bosio… - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Approximate Computing (AxC) has emerged as a promising paradigm to enhance
performance and energy efficiency by allowing a controlled trade-off between accuracy and …

AxBA: An approximate bus architecture framework

JR Stevens, A Ranjan… - 2018 IEEE/ACM …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern computing platforms expend significant amounts of time and energy in transmitting
data across on-chip and off-chip interconnects. This challenge is exacerbated in prevalent …

A survey on architecture advances enabled by emerging beyond-CMOS technologies

A Chen, S Datta, XS Hu, MT Niemier… - IEEE Design & …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Editor's note: Emerging non-CMOS devices have various advantages and challenges. It is
important to undertake device-architecture codesign to harness the true benefits of beyond …

Test and reliability in approximate computing

L Anghel, M Benabdenbi, A Bosio, M Traiola… - Journal of Electronic …, 2018 - Springer
This paper presents an overview of test and reliability approaches for approximate
computing architectures. We focus on how specific methods for test and reliability can be …

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 …

Automated design approximation to overcome circuit aging

K Balaskas, G Zervakis, H Amrouch… - … on Circuits and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transistor aging phenomena manifest themselves as degradations in the main electrical
characteristics of transistors. Over time, they result in a significant increase of cell …

Cross-layer approximate hardware synthesis for runtime configurable accuracy

T Alan, A Gerstlauer, J Henkel - IEEE Transactions on Very …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing trades off computation accuracy against energy efficiency. The
extent of approximation tolerance, however, significantly varies with a change in input …