Approximate Computing (AxC) trades off between the level of accuracy required by the user and the actual precision provided by the computing system to achieve several optimizations such as performance improvement, energy, and area reduction etc.. Several AxC techniques have been proposed so far in the literature. They work at different abstraction level and propose both hardware and software implementations. The common issue of all existing approaches is the lack of a methodology to estimate the impact of a given AxC technique on the application-level accuracy. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic approach to predict the relation between component-level functional approximation and application-level accuracy. Experimental results on a set of benchmark application show that the proposed approach is able to estimate the approximation error with good accuracy and very low computation time.
A low-cost approach for determining the impact of Functional Approximation / Traiola, M.; Savino, A.; Di Carlo, S.. - ELETTRONICO. - (2018), pp. 1-6. ((Intervento presentato al convegno 3rd Workshop on Approximate Computing tenutosi a Bremen, DE nel 31 May - 1st June, 2018.
Titolo: | A low-cost approach for determining the impact of Functional Approximation |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2018 |
Abstract: | Approximate Computing (AxC) trades off between the level of accuracy required by the user and the... actual precision provided by the computing system to achieve several optimizations such as performance improvement, energy, and area reduction etc.. Several AxC techniques have been proposed so far in the literature. They work at different abstraction level and propose both hardware and software implementations. The common issue of all existing approaches is the lack of a methodology to estimate the impact of a given AxC technique on the application-level accuracy. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic approach to predict the relation between component-level functional approximation and application-level accuracy. Experimental results on a set of benchmark application show that the proposed approach is able to estimate the approximation error with good accuracy and very low computation time. |
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