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EvoApprox8b: Library of Approximate Adders and Multipliers for Circuit Design and Benchmarking of Approximation Methods

MRÁZEK Vojtěch, HRBÁČEK Radek, VAŠÍČEK Zdeněk and SEKANINA Lukáš. EvoApprox8b: Library of Approximate Adders and Multipliers for Circuit Design and Benchmarking of Approximation Methods. In: Proc. of the 2017 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE). Lausanne: European Design and Automation Association, 2017, pp. 258-261. ISBN 978-3-9815370-9-3.
Czech title
EvoApprox8b: Knihovna aproximovaných sčítaček a násobiček pro návrh obvodů a porovnávaní
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
URL
Keywords

approximate circuits
genetic programming
error metrics

Abstract

Approximate circuits and approximate circuit design methodologies attracted a significant attention of researchers as well as industry in recent years. In order to accelerate the approximate circuit and system design process and to support a fair benchmarking of circuit approximation methods, we propose a library of approximate adders and multipliers called EvoApprox8b. This library contains 430 nondominated 8-bit approximate adders created from 13 conventional adders and 471 non-dominated 8-bit approximate multipliers created from 6 conventional multipliers. These implementations were evolved by a multi-objective Cartesian genetic programming. The EvoApprox8b library provides Verilog, Matlab and C models of all approximate circuits. In addition to standard circuit parameters, the error is given for seven different error metrics. The EvoApprox8b library is available at: www.fit.vutbr.cz/research/groups/ehw/approxlib

Published
2017
Pages
258-261
Proceedings
Proc. of the 2017 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE)
Conference
Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference, Lausanne, CH
ISBN
978-3-9815370-9-3
Publisher
European Design and Automation Association
Place
Lausanne, CH
DOI
UT WoS
000404171500045
EID Scopus
BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB11262,
   author = "Vojt\v{e}ch Mr\'{a}zek and Radek Hrb\'{a}\v{c}ek and Zden\v{e}k Va\v{s}\'{i}\v{c}ek and Luk\'{a}\v{s} Sekanina",
   title = "EvoApprox8b: Library of Approximate Adders and Multipliers for Circuit Design and Benchmarking of Approximation Methods",
   pages = "258--261",
   booktitle = "Proc. of the 2017 Design, Automation \& Test in Europe Conference \& Exhibition (DATE)",
   year = 2017,
   location = "Lausanne, CH",
   publisher = "European Design and Automation Association",
   ISBN = "978-3-9815370-9-3",
   doi = "10.23919/DATE.2017.7926993",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/11262"
}
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