Exploring Approximate Accelerator Architectures Using Automated FPGA Frameworks
The emergence of approximate computing has opened up a new world of possibilities for hardware designers. Approximate accelerators are a type of hardware architecture that can be used to speed up computations by sacrificing some accuracy. Automated FPGA frameworks are a powerful tool for exploring these approximate architectures and can help designers quickly evaluate the trade-offs between accuracy and performance. Approximate accelerators are designed to reduce the amount of time it takes to complete a computation by sacrificing some accuracy. This is done by introducing errors into the computation, which