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Approximate 32-Bit Floating-Point Unit Design with 53% Power-Area Product Reduction

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

The floating-point unit is one of the most common building block in any computing system and is used for a huge number of applications. By combining two state-of-the-art techniques of imprecise hardware, namely Gate-Level Pruning and Inexact Speculative Ad ...

Ieee2016

A Low-power Carry Cut-Back Approximate Adder with Fixed-point Implementation and Floating-point Precision

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

This paper introduces an approximate adder architecture based on a digital quasi-feedback technique called Carry Cut-Back in which high-significance stages can cut the carry propagation chain at lower-significance positions. This lightweight approach preve ...

Ieee2016

Renovatio urbis Stockholm. Conferring a proper character to a city on the archipelago

Chiara Monterumisi

The paper examines how the leading exponent of the National-Romanticism Ragnar Östberg (1866-1945) contributed to conferring a proper and national character to the Stockholm’s "imago urbis" at the turn of the nineteenth century. The Swedish capital, once a ...

EGU-Editorial Universidad de Granada2016

"A Home”: Östberg’s search for the total artwork

Chiara Monterumisi

This paper analyses the short pamphlet -"Ett hem. Dess byggnad och inredning" (Eng. "A Home. Its construction and interior design", 15 pages)- written in 1905 by Swedish architect Ragnar Östberg (1866-1945). It encapsulates the Nordic devotion to craft, in ...

2014

On the use of inexact, pruned hardware in atmospheric modelling

Giovanni De Micheli, Jaime Joven Murillo, Avinash Lingamneni

Inexact hardware design, which advocates trading the accuracy of computations in exchange for significant savings in area, power and/or performance of computing hardware, has received increasing prominence in several error-tolerant application domains, par ...

Royal Soc2014

Improving the Performance of Scala Collections with Miniboxing

Martin Odersky, Vlad Ureche, Aymeric Genet

Using generics, Scala collections can be used to store different types of data in a type-safe manner. Unfortunately, due to the erasure transformation, the performance of generics is degraded when storing primitive types, such as integers and floating poin ...

2014

On Numerical Error Propagation with Sensitivity

Viktor Kuncak, Eva Darulova

An emerging area of research is to automatically compute reasonably accurate upper bounds on numerical errors, including roundoffs due to the use of a finite-precision representation for real numbers such as floating point or fixed-point arithmetic. Previo ...

2014

Shadows of the South. Venetian fragments from Ragnar Östberg’s travelogue

Chiara Monterumisi

After centuries of popularity, late 19th century educational travel began to change and lose something of the 18th century aristocratic Grand Tour. The South remained the focus of interest, the cradle of that culture from which Europe’s own had grown. Swed ...

2013

Miniboxing: Improving the Speed to Code Size Tradeoff in Parametric Polymorphism Translations

Martin Odersky, Vlad Ureche, Cristian Talau

Parametric polymorphism enables code reuse and type safety. Underneath the uniform interface exposed to programmers, however, its low level implementation has to cope with inherently non-uniform data: value types of different sizes and semantics (bytes, in ...

2013

BRIEF: Computing a Local Binary Descriptor Very Fast

Pascal Fua, Vincent Lepetit, Christoph Strecha, Michael Calonder, Tomasz Piotr Trzcinski, Mustafa Özuysal

Binary descriptors are becoming increasingly popular as a means to compare feature points very fast and while requiring comparatively small amounts of memory. The typical approach to creating them is to first compute floating-point ones, using an algorithm ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

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