Approximate computing survey, Part I: terminology and software & hardware approximation techniques

V Leon, MA Hanif, G Armeniakos, X Jiao… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The rapid growth of demanding applications in domains applying multimedia processing
and machine learning has marked a new era for edge and cloud computing. These …

Approximate computing survey, Part II: Application-specific & architectural approximation techniques and applications

V Leon, MA Hanif, G Armeniakos, X Jiao… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The challenging deployment of compute-intensive applications from domains such as
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Signal Processing (DSP), forces the community of …

Incorporating bottom-up approach into device/circuit co-design for SRAM-based cache memory applications

S Tayal, B Smaani, SB Rahi… - … on Electron Devices, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a reliable static random access memory (SRAM) circuit design is proposed for
improved thermal and electrical performance at 5-nm technology nodes. The proposed …

Exploiting errors for efficiency: A survey from circuits to applications

P Stanley-Marbell, A Alaghi, M Carbin… - ACM Computing …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
When a computational task tolerates a relaxation of its specification or when an algorithm
tolerates the effects of noise in its execution, hardware, system software, and programming …

Modeling and synthesis of quality-energy optimal approximate adders

J Miao, K He, A Gerstlauer, M Orshansky - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Recent interest in approximate computation is driven by its potential to achieve large energy
savings. This paper formally demonstrates an optimal way to reduce energy via voltage over …

Ten years of building broken chips: The physics and engineering of inexact computing

K Palem, A Lingamneni - ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Well over a decade ago, many believed that an engine of growth driving the semiconductor
and computing industries---captured nicely by Gordon Moore's remarkable prophecy …

Approximate logic synthesis under general error magnitude and frequency constraints

J Miao, A Gerstlauer… - 2013 IEEE/ACM …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent interest in approximate circuit design is driven by its potential for large energy
savings. In this paper, we address the problem of approximate logic synthesis (ALS). ALS is …

Improving power of DSP and CNN hardware accelerators using approximate floating-point multipliers

V Leon, T Paparouni, E Petrongonas… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Approximate computing has emerged as a promising design alternative for delivering power-
efficient systems and circuits by exploiting the inherent error resiliency of numerous …

Energy-quality scalable integrated circuits and systems: Continuing energy scaling in the twilight of Moore's law

M Alioto, V De, A Marongiu - IEEE Journal on Emerging and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper aims to take stock of recent advances in the field of energy-quality (EQ) scalable
circuits and systems, as promising direction to continue the historical exponential energy …

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 …