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 …

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 …

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

V Leon, MA Hanif, G Armeniakos, X Jiao… - ar** highly energy-efficient
computing systems such as various accelerators. In the literature, many libraries of …

Approximate computing for ML: State-of-the-art, challenges and visions

G Zervakis, H Saadat, H Amrouch… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present our state-of-the-art approximate techniques that cover the main
pillars of approximate computing research. Our analysis considers both static and …

Design automation of approximate circuits with runtime reconfigurable accuracy

G Zervakis, H Amrouch, J Henkel - IEEE access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Leveraging the inherent error tolerance of a vast number of application domains that are
rapidly growing, approximate computing arises as a design alternative to improve the …

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 …

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 …

A Genetic-algorithm-based Approach to the Design of DCT Hardware Accelerators

M Barbareschi, S Barone, A Bosio, J Han… - ACM Journal on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
As modern applications demand an unprecedented level of computational resources,
traditional computing system design paradigms are no longer adequate to guarantee …