From Variability Tolerance to Approximate Computing in Parallel Integrated Architectures and Accelerators

by Abbas Rahimi, Luca Benini, and Rajesh K Gupta

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This book focuses on computing devices and their design at various levels to combat variability. The authors provide a review of key concepts with particular emphasis on timing errors caused by various variability sources. They discuss methods to predict and prevent, detect and correct, and finally conditions under which such errors can be accepted; they also consider their implications on cost, performance and quality. Coverage includes a comparative evaluation of methods for deployment across various layers of the system from circuits, architecture, to application software. These can be combined in various ways to achieve specific goals related to observability and controllability of the variability effects, providing means to achieve cross layer or hybrid resilience.

  • ISBN13 9783319537672
  • Publish Date 4 May 2017
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CH
  • Imprint Springer International Publishing AG
  • Edition 1st ed. 2017
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 197
  • Language English