APPROXIMATE COMPUTING: Unlocking Efficiency with Hardware-Software Co-Design

Abstract

Generations of computer scientists and practitioners have worked under the assumption that computers will keep improving themselves: just wait a few years and Moore's Law will solve your scaling problems. This reliable march of electrical-engineering progress has sparked revolutions in the ways humans use computers and interact with the world and each other. But growth in computing power has protected outdated abstractions and encouraged layering even more abstractions, whatever the cost.