An Energy-efficient and High-precision Approximate MAC with Distributed Arithmetic Circuits

Abstract

In this paper, an approximate distributed arithmetic (DA) based parallel MAC is proposed. First, by adopting three kinds of approximation methods, the novel structure significantly reduces hardware complexity. Then, the result is compensated according to the analysis of the probability to enhance the precision. The hardware and error metric evaluation demonstrates that the proposed MAC achieves 25% power-delay product reduction while maintaining better precision. Finally, the Gaussian Blur application is employed to verify the proposed DA-based MAC with 6dB average PSNR improvement compared with recent state-of-the-art work.