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SUMMARY:IC/IEM Talk: Logic Synthesis for Approximate Circuits and Its Appl
 ication
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DESCRIPTION:Weikang Qian\,\nAssociate Professor\, Shanghai Jiao Tong Unive
 rsity\, China\nAbstract\nAs CMOS technology is scaled into the nanometer r
 egime\, power consumption has become one of the paramount concerns in desi
 gning VLSI circuits. At the same time\, with the prevalence of mobile and 
 embedded computing\, there is an increasing demand for signal processing\,
  multimedia\, machine learning\, and pattern recognition applications. One
  feature of these applications is that they can tolerate some error in the
  computation results. The relaxation of the accuracy requirement for these
  applications leads to a new design paradigm\, known as approximate comput
 ing. It deliberately sacrifices a small amount of accuracy to achieve impr
 ovement in performance and power consumption. In order to design an approx
 imate circuit automatically under any given specification\, research on lo
 gic synthesis for approximate circuits\, also known as approximate logic s
 ynthesis (ALS)\, is attracting more and more attention recently. In this t
 alk\, I will first introduce the background on approximate computing. Then
 \, I will present several of our representative works on ALS\, which focus
  on two aspects\, synthesizing high-quality approximate circuits and synth
 esizing approximate circuits efficiently. I will conclude the talk by show
 ing the application of the proposed ALS methods in machine learning and di
 gital signal processing domains.\n \nBio\nWeikang Qian is a tenured assoc
 iate professor in the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  Joint Institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received his Ph.D. d
 egree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota in 2011 and
  his B.Eng. degree in Automation at Tsinghua University in 2006. His main 
 research interests include electronic design automation and digital design
  for emerging computing paradigms. His research works were nominated for t
 he Best Paper Awards at 2020 and 2009 International Conference on Computer
 -Aided Design (ICCAD) and 2024 and 2020 Design\, Automation\, and Test in 
 Europe Conference (DATE). He serves as an associate editor of the IEEE Tra
 nsactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. He 
 is a senior member of IEEE.\n 
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