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Design Space Exploration for Approximate Implementations of Arithmetic Data Path Primitives

SEKANINA Lukáš, MRÁZEK Vojtěch and VAŠÍČEK Zdeněk. Design Space Exploration for Approximate Implementations of Arithmetic Data Path Primitives. In: 25th IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems (ICECS). Bordeaux: IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 2018, pp. 377-380. ISBN 978-1-5386-9562-3.
Czech title
Prozkoumání návrhových alternativ pro aproximované implementace aritmetických obvodů datové cesty
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
Sekanina Lukáš, prof. Ing., Ph.D. (DCSY FIT BUT)
Mrázek Vojtěch, Ing. (FIT BUT)
Vašíček Zdeněk, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DCSY FIT BUT)
Keywords

approximate circuit, dot product, Pareto front, parameter estimation

Abstract

While a detailed analysis of various approximation strategies for elementary arithmetic circuits (such as adders and multipliers) is widely covered in the literature, much less is known about approximate arithmetic data path primitives (such as Dot Product (DP) to name one example) because it is difficult to exactly analyze their error and other parameters. We provide a detailed analysis of approximation options if a two-dimensional DP circuit is implemented using pre-characterized approximate arithmetic circuits available in existing libraries of approximate circuits. We propose a method capable to cheaply estimate properties of candidate approximate implementations of DP circuit. By a careful selection of approximate components, hundreds of approximate DP circuits showing excellent tradeoffs between key design objectives were obtained. 

Published
2018
Pages
377-380
Proceedings
25th IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems (ICECS)
Conference
25th IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems, Bordeaux, FR
ISBN
978-1-5386-9562-3
Publisher
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Place
Bordeaux, FR
DOI
UT WoS
000458965100094
EID Scopus
BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB11765,
   author = "Luk\'{a}\v{s} Sekanina and Vojt\v{e}ch Mr\'{a}zek and Zden\v{e}k Va\v{s}\'{i}\v{c}ek",
   title = "Design Space Exploration for Approximate Implementations of Arithmetic Data Path Primitives",
   pages = "377--380",
   booktitle = "25th IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems (ICECS)",
   year = 2018,
   location = "Bordeaux, FR",
   publisher = "IEEE Circuits and Systems Society",
   ISBN = "978-1-5386-9562-3",
   doi = "10.1109/icecs.2018.8618048",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/11765"
}
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