High-level synthesis of stochastic circuits

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• Jason Anderson
• Monday 24 November 2014, 11:30-12:30
• Level 9 Mahanakorn Lab., EE Dept..

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Grigorios Mingas.

This will be a semi-informal talk about work-in-progress on high-level synthesis of stochastic circuits. In stochastic circuits, values are represented by random streams of 0s and 1s, where the particular value represented is the fraction of 1s in the stream. Stochastic circuits are thus a way of doing approximate computing. Certain kinds of computations become quite inexpensive when executed in the stochastic form, and stochastic circuits also have some reliability benefits.

As far as I know, no one has looked into generating such circuits using high-level synthesis. I will describe some preliminary work on this front that I’ve been doing here at Imperial.

This talk is part of the CAS Talks series.

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