A repository of stochastic arithmetic units for reproducible research.
Adders with an extra port to switch between approx. and exact modes
There are: 2 implementations for this unit
Ardalan Najafi, Moritz Weissbrich, Guillermo Paya Vaya and Alberto Garcia-Ortiz Coherent Design of Hybrid Approximate Adders: Unified Design Framework and Metrics IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems PDF Bibtex
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author={A. {Najafi} and M. {Weissbrich} and G. {Paya-Vaya} and A. {Garcia-Ortiz}},
journal={IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems},
title={Coherent Design of Hybrid Approximate Adders: Unified Design Framework and Metrics},
year={2018},
volume={8},
number={4},
pages={736-745},
keywords={adders;approximation theory;coherent design;hybrid approximate adders;unified design framework;technology scaling;nonsystematic methodology;robust error metrics;approximate accelerator;ad-hoc methodology;Adders;Error analysis;Systematics;Computer vision;Usability;Approximate adders;error metrics;computer vision;generic template;automatic design framework},
doi={10.1109/JETCAS.2018.2833284},
ISSN={2156-3357},
month={Dec},}
Omid Akbari , Mehdi Kamal , Ali Afzali-Kusha , Massoud Pedram RAP-CLA: A Reconfigurable Approximate Carry Look-Ahead Adder IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs PDF Bibtex
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author={O. {Akbari} and M. {Kamal} and A. {Afzali-Kusha} and M. {Pedram}},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs},
title={RAP-CLA: A Reconfigurable Approximate Carry Look-Ahead Adder},
year={2018},
volume={65},
number={8},
pages={1089-1093},
keywords={adders;carry logic;energy conservation;MOSFET circuits;approximate operating modes;exact operating modes;RAP-CLA adder;error rate;FinFET technology;fast yet energy-efficient reconfigurable approximate carry look-ahead adder;size 15.0 nm;word length 32 bit;Adders;Delays;Power demand;Logic gates;Multiplexing;Error correction;Generators;Approximate computing;carry look-ahead adder (CLA);quality of service;reconfigurable},
doi={10.1109/TCSII.2016.2633307},
ISSN={1549-7747},
month={Aug},}