Approximate Computing Techniques : From Component- to Application-Level /

This book serves as a single-source reference to the latest advances in Approximate Computing (AxC), a promising technique for increasing performance or reducing the cost and power consumption of a computing system. The authors discuss the different AxC design and validation techniques, and their in...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Bosio, Alberto (Editor), Ménard, Daniel (Editor), Sentieys, Olivier (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Edition:	1st ed. 2022.
Subjects:	Electronic circuits. Cooperating objects (Computer systems). Microprocessors. Computer architecture. Electronic Circuits and Systems. Cyber-Physical Systems. Processor Architectures. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

General introduction Motivations
Number representations
Data level approximation
Dynamic precision scaling
Hardware level approximation
Inexact operators
Computation level approximation - algorithmic level
Analysis of approximation effect on application quality
Techniques for finite precision arithmetic
Compilers and Programming Languages for Approximate Computing
Design space exploration
Word-length optimization for fixed-point and floating-point
HLS of approximate accelerators
Approximate Computing for IoT Applications
Approximating Safety-Critical Applications
Approximate Computing for HPC Applications.