1. Low-Power Hardware Implementation of Least-Mean-Square Adaptive Filters Using Approximate Arithmetic.
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Esposito, Darjn, De Caro, Davide, Di Meo, Gennaro, Napoli, Ettore, and Strollo, Antonio G. M.
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ADAPTIVE filters , *ENERGY consumption , *DESIGN techniques , *HARDWARE , *ARITHMETIC , *COMPUTATIONAL complexity - Abstract
Adaptive filters based on least-mean-square (LMS) algorithm are used in several applications in virtue of their good steady-state performance, numerical stability, and acceptable computational complexity. The hardware implementation of LMS filters requires a massive number of multipliers that significantly impact on the power consumption. Approximate computing, a design technique that trades off computation accuracy for better electrical performance, is a way to improve the energy efficiency of LMS filters. In this paper, we implement state-of-the-art approximate multipliers and evaluate their impact on the performance of the LMS algorithm. Moreover, a novel approximate multiplier, whose accuracy can be tuned at design time to better adapt to the application scenario, is proposed. Implementation results in 28-nm CMOS technology allow us to investigate the power versus quality trade-off of the considered LMS approximate filters in two different applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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