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Approximate Multipliers Based on New Approximate Compressors
Ist Teil von
IEEE transactions on circuits and systems. I, Regular papers, 2018-12, Vol.65 (12), p.4169-4182
Ort / Verlag
New York: IEEE
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Approximate computing is an emerging trend in digital design that trades off the requirement of exact computation for improved speed and power performance. This paper proposes novel approximate compressors and an algorithm to exploit them for the design of efficient approximate multipliers. By using the proposed approach, we have synthesized approximate multipliers for several operand lengths using a 40-nm library. Comparison with previously presented approximated multipliers shows that the proposed circuits provide better power or speed for a target precision. Applications to image filtering and to adaptive least mean squares filtering are also presented in the paper.