Design Automation Techniques for Approximation Circuits: Verification, Synthesis and Test [Hardcover]

This book describes reliable and efficient design automation techniques for the design and implementation of an approximate computing system. The authors address the important facets of approximate computing hardware design - from formal verification and error guarantees to synthesis and test of approximation systems. They provide algorithms and methodologies based on classical formal verification, synthesis and test techniques for an approximate computing IC design flow.  This is one of the first books in Approximate Computing that addresses the design automation aspects, aiming for not only sketching the possibility, but providing a comprehensive overview of different tasks and especially how they can be implemented.

Introduction.- Preliminaries.- Error Metric Computation for Approximate Combinational Circuits.- Formal Verification of Approximate Sequential Circuits.- Synthesis Techniques for Approximation Circuits.- Post-Production Test Strategies for Approximation Circuits.- ProACt: Hardware Architecture for Cross-Layer Approximate Computing.- Conclusions and Outlook.- Index.- References.

This book introduces many good ideas about IC design flow for approximate design. It has a great potential to optimize the traditional electronic design automation (EDA) tools to be approximation-aware software in the future. & This book is suitable for researchers and engineers with experience and background in ASIC and FPGA design flow. (Xiaokun Yang, Computing Reviews, April 12, 2019)

Arun Chandrasekharan is a Software Engineer at OneSpin Solutions GmbH, in Munich, Germany.He received the Dr.-Ing. degree in computer science from the University of Bremen in 2017.  His research interests are EDA algorithms and methodologies for formal verification and logic synthesis. Arun Chandrasekharan is a recipient of Richard Newton Young Student Fellowship in lóÙ