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Energy Efficiency through Significance-Based Computing

Andreas Peter Burg, Georgios Karakonstantis
2014
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An extension of approximate computing, significance-based computing exploits applications' inherent error resiliency and offers a new structural paradigm that strategically relaxes full computational precision to provide significant energy savings with minimal performance degradation.

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Andreas Peter Burg, Georgios Karakonstantis
2014
Journal Articles

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