Design Automation Techniques for Approximation Circuits Verification, Synthesis and Test /

• Main Authors: Chandrasekharan, Arun (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Große, Daniel (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Drechsler, Rolf (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Electronic circuits.; Microprocessors.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Circuits and Systems.; Processor Architectures.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.

This book describes reliable and efficient design automation techniques for the design and implementation of an approximate computing system. The authors address the important facets of approximate computing hardware design - from formal verification and error guarantees to synthesis and test of app...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Preliminaries
• Error Metric Computation for Approximate Combinational Circuits
• Formal Verification of Approximate Sequential Circuits
• Synthesis Techniques for Approximation Circuits
• Post-Production Test Strategies for Approximation Circuits
• ProACt: Hardware Architecture for Cross-Layer Approximate Computing
• Conclusions and Outlook
• Index
• References.