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Approximate Multipliers Based on New Approximate Compressors [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 2018 Approximate computing is an emerging trend in digital design that trades off the requirement of exact computation for improved speed and power performance. This paper proposes novel approximate compressors and an algorithm to exploit them for the design of efficient approximate multipliers.
Daniele Esposito +2 more
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Layer-specific approximate multipliers for energy–precision trade-offs in convolutional neural networks [PDF]
Scientific ReportsApproximate computing is a promising paradigm for error-resilient applications, such as image and signal processing and neural networks, prioritizing hardware efficiency over precision.
Ladan Sayadi +2 more
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Approximate Array Multipliers [PDF]
Electronics, 2021 This article describes the design of approximate array multipliers by making vertical or horizontal cuts in an accurate array multiplier followed by different input and output assignments within the multiplier. We consider a digital image denoising application and show how different combinations of input and output assignments in an approximate array ...
Padmanabhan Balasubramanian +2 more
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Designing Energy-Efficient Approximate Multipliers
Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, 2022 This paper proposes a novel approach suitable to design energy-efficient approximate multipliers using both ASIC and FPGAs. The new strategy harnesses specific encoding logics based on bit significance and computes the approximate product performing ...
Stefania Perri +3 more
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AxCEM: Designing Approximate Comparator-Enabled Multipliers
Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, 2020 Floating-point multipliers have been the key component of nearly all forms of modern computing systems. Most data-intensive applications, such as deep neural networks (DNNs), expend the majority of their resources and energy budget for floating-point ...
Samar Ghabraei +3 more
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Design of high-performance, accurate, and approximate Dadda-tree multipliers for image processing applications [PDF]
Scientific ReportsApproximate computing comes to the fore as an alternative paradigm to enhance efficiency in computing systems by trading off the system’s accuracy for better performance.
Aqib Amin Rather +3 more
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Dual segmentation approximate multiplier [PDF]
Electronics Letters, 2021 This letter proposes a new design for a dual segmentation approximate multiplier. The proposed approximate multiplier uses the static segment method (SSM) to select an initial multiplication segment.
Ling Li +2 more
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IEEE Access, 2021 This article proposes boosting the multiplication performance for convolutional neural network (CNN) inference using a precision prediction preprocessor which controls various precision approximate multipliers.
Issam Hammad +3 more
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FPGA-based imprecise signed multiplier designs for high-performance image processing applications [PDF]
Scientific ReportsMultiplication is a fundamental mathematical operation that finds extensive applications across various disciplines, particularly in computation-intensive and error-resilient applications, such as image processing.
Jaiza Hassan +3 more
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Impact of Approximate Multipliers on VGG Deep Learning Network
IEEE Access, 2018 This paper presents a study on the applicability of using approximate multipliers to enhance the performance of the VGGNet deep learning network. Approximate multipliers are known to have reduced power, area, and delay with the cost of an inaccuracy in ...
Issam Hammad, Kamal El-Sankary
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