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EvoApprox8b: Library of Approximate Adders and Multipliers for Circuit Design and Benchmarking of Approximation Methods

MRÁZEK, V.; HRBÁČEK, R.; VAŠÍČEK, Z.; SEKANINA, L. EvoApprox8b: Library of Approximate Adders and Multipliers for Circuit Design and Benchmarking of Approximation Methods. In Proc. of the 2017 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE). Lausanne: European Design and Automation Association, 2017. p. 258-261. ISBN: 978-3-9815370-9-3.
Czech title
EvoApprox8b: Knihovna aproximovaných sčítaček a násobiček pro návrh obvodů a porovnávaní
Type
conference paper
Language
English
Authors
Mrázek Vojtěch, Ing., Ph.D. (DCSY)
Hrbáček Radek, Ing., Ph.D. (RG EHW)
Vašíček Zdeněk, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DCSY)
Sekanina Lukáš, prof. Ing., Ph.D. (DCSY)
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Keywords

approximate circuits
genetic programming
error metrics

Abstract

Approximate circuits and approximate circuit design methodologies attracted
a significant attention of researchers as well as industry in recent years. In
order to accelerate the approximate circuit and system design process and to
support a fair benchmarking of circuit approximation methods, we propose
a library of approximate adders and multipliers called EvoApprox8b. This library
contains 430 nondominated 8-bit approximate adders created from 13 conventional
adders and 471 non-dominated 8-bit approximate multipliers created from 6
conventional multipliers. These implementations were evolved by a multi-objective
Cartesian genetic programming. The EvoApprox8b library provides Verilog, Matlab
and C models of all approximate circuits. In addition to standard circuit
parameters, the error is given for seven different error metrics. The EvoApprox8b
library is available at: www.fit.vutbr.cz/research/groups/ehw/approxlib

Published
2017
Pages
258–261
Proceedings
Proc. of the 2017 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE)
Conference
Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference, Lausanne, CH
ISBN
978-3-9815370-9-3
Publisher
European Design and Automation Association
Place
Lausanne
DOI
10.23919/DATE.2017.7926993
UT WoS
000404171500045
EID Scopus
2-s2.0-85020209094
BibTeX 
@inproceedings{BUT134714,
  author="Vojtěch {Mrázek} and Radek {Hrbáček} and Zdeněk {Vašíček} and Lukáš {Sekanina}",
  title="EvoApprox8b: Library of Approximate Adders and Multipliers for Circuit Design and Benchmarking of Approximation Methods",
  booktitle="Proc. of the 2017 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE)",
  year="2017",
  pages="258--261",
  publisher="European Design and Automation Association",
  address="Lausanne",
  doi="10.23919/DATE.2017.7926993",
  isbn="978-3-9815370-9-3",
  url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/11262/"
}
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