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EvoApprox8b: Library of Approximate Adders and Multipliers for Circuit Design and Benchmarking of Approximation Methods
MRÁZEK, V. HRBÁČEK, R. VAŠÍČEK, Z. SEKANINA, L.
Original Title
EvoApprox8b: Library of Approximate Adders and Multipliers for Circuit Design and Benchmarking of Approximation Methods
Type
conference paper
Language
English
Original Abstract
Approximate circuits and approximate circuit designmethodologies attracted a significant attention of researchersas well as industry in recent years. In order to acceleratethe approximate circuit and system design process and tosupport a fair benchmarking of circuit approximation methods,we propose a library of approximate adders and multiplierscalled EvoApprox8b. This library contains 430 nondominated 8-bit approximate adders created from 13 conventionaladders and 471 non-dominated 8-bit approximate multiplierscreated from 6 conventional multipliers. These implementationswere evolved by a multi-objective Cartesian geneticprogramming. The EvoApprox8b library provides Verilog,Matlab and C models of all approximate circuits. In additionto standard circuit parameters, the error is given for sevendifferent error metrics. The EvoApprox8b library is available at: www.fit.vutbr.cz/research/groups/ehw/approxlib
Keywords
approximate circuits
genetic programming
error metrics
Authors
MRÁZEK, V.; HRBÁČEK, R.; VAŠÍČEK, Z.; SEKANINA, L.
Released
9. 1. 2017
Publisher
European Design and Automation Association
Location
Lausanne
ISBN
978-3-9815370-9-3
Book
Proc. of the 2017 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE)
Pages from
258
Pages to
261
Pages count
4
URL
BibTex
@inproceedings{BUT134714,
author="Vojtěch {Mrázek} and Radek {Hrbáček} and Zdeněk {Vašíček} and Lukáš {Sekanina}",
title="EvoApprox8b: Library of Approximate Adders and Multipliers for Circuit Design and Benchmarking of Approximation Methods",
booktitle="Proc. of the 2017 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE)",
year="2017",
pages="258--261",
publisher="European Design and Automation Association",
address="Lausanne",
doi="10.23919/DATE.2017.7926993",
isbn="978-3-9815370-9-3",
url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/11262/"
}
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