Design Automation of Approximate Circuits With Runtime Reconfigurable Accuracy

Evolutionary Design of Approximate Circuits

In this paper we have surveyed recent approaches for design of approximate circuits using Evolvable Hardware. We have discussed some challenges faced during evolution of digital circuits. Then we have proposed spatially varying mutation and cross over rates as possible remedy and discussed its superiority on uniform mutation and crossover rate for digital circuits. Keywords—Evolvable hardware, ...

Evolutionary Design of Approximate Circuits

This paper deals with the analysis of evolutionary design in different approximate circuit designs. The key character of these designs is to relax the functionality of the circuits to minimize energy consumption or area of the chip. Keywords—Approximate design, Cartesian genetic programming, gates scaling.

DAPR: Design Automation for Partially Reconfigurable FPGAs

reconfiguration (PR) enhances traditional FPGA-based high-performance reconfigurable computing by providing additional benefits such as reduced area and memory requirements, increased performance, and increased functionality. However, since leveraging these additional benefits requires specific designer expertise, which increases design time, PR has not yet gained widespread usage. Even though ...

Design of Energy - Efficient Approximate Arithmetic Circuits

Employing Approximate Equivalence for Design of Approximate Circuits

This thesis is concerned with the utilization of formal verification techniques in the design of the functional approximations of combinational circuits. We thoroughly study the existing formal approaches for the approximate equivalence checking and their utilization in the approximate circuit development. We present a new method that integrates the formal techniques into the Cartesian Genetic ...