An approximate adder with a near-normal error distribution : design, error analysis and practical application

• Main Authors: Balasubramanian, Padmanabhan, Nayar, Raunaq, Maskell, Douglas L., Mastorakis, Nikos E.
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering; Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; Adders; Approximate Computing
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145866
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article presents a novel approximate adder that is design-optimized and has optimized error metrics. Optimization in design translates into optimization of the design parameters such as delay, power, and area/resources, and optimization of the error metrics points to the usefulness of the propo...