Leveraging Error Resilience of Iterative Algorithms for Energy Efficiency: from Concept to Implementation
Iterative algorithms are widely used in digital signal processing applications. With the case study of radio astronomy calibration processing, this work contributes towards revealing and exploiting the intrinsic error resilience of iterative algorithms for energy efficiency benefits. We consider iterative methods that use a convergence criterion as a quality metric to terminate the iterative computations. We propose an adaptive statistical approximation model for high-level resilience analysis that provides an opportunity to divide an iterative algorithm into exact and approximate iterations. We realize an energy-efficient accelerator based on a heterogeneous architecture, where the heterogeneity is introduced using accurate and approximate processing cores. Our proposed methodology exploits the error-resilience of the algorithm, where initial iterations are processed on approximate modules while the later ones on accurate modules. The proposed accelerator design does not increase the number of iterations as compared to that of an accurate counterpart and provides sufficient precision to converge to an acceptable solution. Our implementation using TSMC 40nm Low Power (TCBN40LP) technology shows 23% savings in electrical energy consumption.
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