T. Nguyen-Ly

A High-Efficiency, High-Accuracy Approximate Multiplier for DNN Accelerators

Multipliers dominate the critical path, power consumption, and silicon area of deep neural network (DNN) accelerators. This paper presents a high-efficiency 7-bit unsigned approximate multiplier tailored for DNN accelerators. Unlike conventional signed 8-bit designs—where the sign bit is handled separately via XOR—the...