Go green radio astronomy: Approximate Computing Perspective: Opportunities and Challenges: POSTER

Abstract

Modern radio telescopes require highly energy/power-efficient computing systems. Signal processing pipelines of such radio telescopes are dominated by accumulation based iterative processes. As the input signal received at a radio telescope is regarded as Gaussian noise, employing approximate computing looks promising. Therefore, we present opportunities and challenges offered by the approximate computing paradigm to achieve the required efficiency targets.