Design of an Accuracy Enhanced Imprecise Adder with Half Adder-based Approximation

Hyoju Seo, Jungwon Lee, Hyelin Seok, Yongtae Kim

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

1 Scopus citations

Abstract

This paper proposes a new approximate adder that increases the accuracy of addition while ensuring acceptable hardware performance. The proposed adder implemented with a 32-nm CMOS technology reduces the area, power, and delay by 40%, 43%, and 50% of those of the traditional accurate adder, respectively. Moreover, the proposed adder shows a better tradeoff performance than the existing approximate adders considered in this paper when jointly evaluating both accuracy and hardware performance. Specifically, the proposed adder enhances power-mean relative error distance (MRED) product, energy-MRED product, and area-MRED product by up to 65%, 65%, and 64% compared to the approximate adder considered herein.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - International SoC Design Conference 2021, ISOCC 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages153-154
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781665401746
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event18th International System-on-Chip Design Conference, ISOCC 2021 - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 6 Oct 20219 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings - International SoC Design Conference 2021, ISOCC 2021

Conference

Conference18th International System-on-Chip Design Conference, ISOCC 2021
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityJeju Island
Period6/10/219/10/21

Keywords

  • approximate adder
  • approximate computing
  • energy efficiency
  • low power

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Design of an Accuracy Enhanced Imprecise Adder with Half Adder-based Approximation'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this