Approximate Computing: Design, Acceleration, Validation and Testing of Circuits, Architectures and Algorithms in Future Systems, Volume 2
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 July 2023) | Viewed by 474
Special Issue Editors
Interests: approximate computing; reliability assessment; software-based self-test; statistical models
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Interests: testing and reliability of digital circuits and systems; approximate computing and emergent technologies
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, there has been a breakthrough in many scientific areas in the applicability of approximate computing (AxC), bringing AxC a step closer to being one of the mainstream computing approaches in future systems. Modern architectures, from HPC to embedded systems, challenge the need for a trade-off between efficiency, memory and performance resources, power consumption, and the quality of the outcomes. More recently, new challenges have come into play, such as balancing the need for approximate computing with security, safety and dependability.
This Special Issue on AxC aims at exploring new, exciting ideas in the field of approximate computing to tackle all the aspects of the AxC paradigm when coupled with the security, safety and reliability of digital systems, including verification and testing.
Topics for this Special Issue include (but are not limited to):
- Analog and circuit-level approximation techniques;
- Approximation-induced error modeling and propagation;
- Approximation techniques for emerging processor and memory technologies;
- Architectural support for AxC;
- Dependability of approximate circuits and systems;
- Design automation of AxC architectures;
- Design of reconfigurable AxC architectures;
- Hardware accelerators for approximation-tolerant application domains;
- Hardware/software co-design of AxC systems;
- Language, compiler and operating system support for AxC architectures;
- Safety applications of approximate computing;
- Security challenges and opportunities for AxC systems' design;
- Security threats in applying AxC;
- Techniques for monitoring and controlling approximation quality.
Dr. Alessandro Savino
Prof. Dr. Alberto Bosio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- approximate computing
- reconfigurable systems
- hardware accelerators
- safety-critical applications
- reliability assessment
- fault tolerance
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