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PRABAKARAN, B. MRÁZEK, V. VAŠÍČEK, Z. SEKANINA, L. SHAFIQUE, M.
Original Title
Xel-FPGAs: An End-to-End Automated Exploration Framework for Approximate Accelerators in FPGA-Based Systems
Type
conference paper
Language
English
Original Abstract
Generation and exploration of approximate circuits and accelerators has been a prominent research domain to achieve energy-efficiency and/or performance improvements. This research has predominantly focused on ASICs, while not achieving similar gains when deployed for FPGA-based accelerator systems, due to the inherent architectural differences between the two. In this work, we propose a novel framework, Xel-FPGAs, which leverages statistical or machine learning models to effectively explore the architecture-space of state-of-the-art ASIC-based approximate circuits to cater them for FPGA-based systems given a simple RTL description of the target application. We have also evaluated the scalability of our framework on a multi-stage application using a hierarchical search strategy. The Xel-FPGAs framework is capable of reducing the exploration time by up to 95%, when compared to the default synthesis, place, and route approaches, while identifying an improved set of Pareto-optimal designs for a given application, when compared to the state-of-the-art. The complete framework is open-source and available online at https://github.com/ehw-fit/xel-fpgas.
Keywords
Approximate Computing, Accelerator, FPGA, ASIC, Arithmetic Units, Regression, Models, Synthesis
Authors
PRABAKARAN, B.; MRÁZEK, V.; VAŠÍČEK, Z.; SEKANINA, L.; SHAFIQUE, M.
Released
28. 10. 2023
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Location
San Francisco
ISBN
979-8-3503-1559-2
Book
2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD)
Pages from
1
Pages to
9
Pages count
BibTex
@inproceedings{BUT185187, author="PRABAKARAN, B. and MRÁZEK, V. and VAŠÍČEK, Z. and SEKANINA, L. and SHAFIQUE, M.", title="Xel-FPGAs: An End-to-End Automated Exploration Framework for Approximate Accelerators in FPGA-Based Systems", booktitle="2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD)", year="2023", pages="1--9", publisher="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers", address="San Francisco", doi="10.1109/ICCAD57390.2023.10323678", isbn="979-8-3503-1559-2" }