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MRÁZEK, V. VAŠÍČEK, Z. SEKANINA, L.
Original Title
Design of Quality-Configurable Approximate Multipliers Suitable for Dynamic Environment
Type
conference paper
Language
English
Original Abstract
In the context of approximate computing, many different design approaches have been introduced in recent years exploiting the application error resilience in order to reduce power consumption. Among others, the concept of Quality Configurable Circuits (QCC) has been proposed. QCCs allow us to dynamically modulate the degree to which their functionality is approximated with respect to the desired quality of service. Existing approaches typically construct complex approximate circuits using smaller approximate and exact components. This approach is, however, associated with a considerable area and power overhead. To mitigate this issue, we propose a holistic approach enabling to formulate the QCC design problem as a search problem that can be solved by means of soft-computing techniques. In order to prove this concept, various quality configurable 8-bit multipliers were designed. Compared to the state-of-the-art solutions, the proposed quality configurable multipliers exhibit better tradeoffs in terms of electrical as well as quality parameters.
Keywords
Approximate computing, quality configurable circuit, evolutionary algorithms, cartesian genetic programming
Authors
MRÁZEK, V.; VAŠÍČEK, Z.; SEKANINA, L.
Released
15. 6. 2018
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Location
Edinburgh
ISBN
978-1-5386-7753-7
Book
Proceedings of the 2018 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems
Pages from
264
Pages to
271
Pages count
8
URL
https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/11710/
BibTex
@inproceedings{BUT155035, author="Vojtěch {Mrázek} and Zdeněk {Vašíček} and Lukáš {Sekanina}", title="Design of Quality-Configurable Approximate Multipliers Suitable for Dynamic Environment", booktitle="Proceedings of the 2018 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems", year="2018", pages="264--271", publisher="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers", address="Edinburgh", doi="10.1109/AHS.2018.8541479", isbn="978-1-5386-7753-7", url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/11710/" }