TY - GEN
T1 - An Energy-Efficient Imprecise Adder with a Lower-part Constant Approximation
AU - Seo, Hyoju
AU - Yang, Yoon Seok
AU - Kim, Yongtae
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/10/21
Y1 - 2020/10/21
N2 - This paper proposes a novel approximate adder that significantly reduces power and energy consumption by leveraging a lower-part constant scheme. When implemented with a 32-nm CMOS technology, the proposed adder reduces area, power, power-delay product, energy-delay product, and area-delay product, respectively, of 43%, 49%, 76%, 89%, and 73% compared to the ripple carry adder that is a traditional precise adder. Also, we demonstrate that our adder design can remarkably reduce power and energy consumption of digital image processing applications while obtaining an acceptable output image quality.
AB - This paper proposes a novel approximate adder that significantly reduces power and energy consumption by leveraging a lower-part constant scheme. When implemented with a 32-nm CMOS technology, the proposed adder reduces area, power, power-delay product, energy-delay product, and area-delay product, respectively, of 43%, 49%, 76%, 89%, and 73% compared to the ripple carry adder that is a traditional precise adder. Also, we demonstrate that our adder design can remarkably reduce power and energy consumption of digital image processing applications while obtaining an acceptable output image quality.
KW - approximate adder
KW - approximate computing
KW - energy efficiency
KW - error tolerant adder
KW - imprecise adder
KW - low power
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85100783600&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ISOCC50952.2020.9332922
DO - 10.1109/ISOCC50952.2020.9332922
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85100783600
T3 - Proceedings - International SoC Design Conference, ISOCC 2020
SP - 143
EP - 144
BT - Proceedings - International SoC Design Conference, ISOCC 2020
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 17th International System-on-Chip Design Conference, ISOCC 2020
Y2 - 21 October 2020 through 24 October 2020
ER -