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 …

A survey of techniques for approximate computing

S Mittal - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2016 - dl.acm.org
Approximate computing trades off computation quality with effort expended, and as rising
performance demands confront plateauing resource budgets, approximate computing has …

Approximate computing and the quest for computing efficiency

S Venkataramani, ST Chakradhar, K Roy… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Diminishing benefits from technology scaling have pushed designers to look for new
sources of computing efficiency. Multicores and heterogeneous accelerator-based …

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 …

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 designs for fast Fourier transform (FFT) with application to speech recognition

W Liu, Q Liao, F Qiao, W **a, C Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents different approximate designs for computing the FFT. The tradeoff
between accuracy and performance is achieved by adjusting the word length in each …

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

V Leon, MA Hanif, G Armeniakos, X Jiao… - ACM Computing …, 2025 - 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 …

Survey on approximate computing and its intrinsic fault tolerance

G Rodrigues, F Lima Kastensmidt, A Bosio - Electronics, 2020 - mdpi.com
This work is a survey on approximate computing and its impact on fault tolerance, especially
for safety-critical applications. It presents a multitude of approximation methodologies, which …

Security in approximate computing and approximate computing for security: Challenges and opportunities

W Liu, C Gu, M O'Neill, G Qu, P Montuschi… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approximate computing is an advanced computational technique that trades the accuracy of
computation results for better utilization of system resources. It has emerged as a new …

Approximate communication: Techniques for reducing communication bottlenecks in large-scale parallel systems

F Betzel, K Khatamifard, H Suresh, DJ Lilja… - ACM Computing …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Approximate computing has gained research attention recently as a way to increase energy
efficiency and/or performance by exploiting some applications' intrinsic error resiliency …