{"title":"CIRCA: Towards a Modular and Extensible Framework for Approximate Circuit Generation","date_updated":"2022-01-06T06:59:25Z","publication_status":"published","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"project":[{"_id":"12","name":"SFB 901 - Subproject B4"},{"_id":"1","name":"SFB 901"},{"_id":"3","name":"SFB 901 - Project Area B"},{"_id":"52","name":"Computing Resources Provided by the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing"}],"department":[{"_id":"78"}],"user_id":"49051","citation":{"ieee":"L. M. Witschen, T. Wiersema, H. Ghasemzadeh Mohammadi, M. Awais, and M. Platzner, “CIRCA: Towards a Modular and Extensible Framework for Approximate Circuit Generation,” <i>Microelectronics Reliability</i>, vol. 99, pp. 277–290, 2019.","apa":"Witschen, L. M., Wiersema, T., Ghasemzadeh Mohammadi, H., Awais, M., &#38; Platzner, M. (2019). CIRCA: Towards a Modular and Extensible Framework for Approximate Circuit Generation. <i>Microelectronics Reliability</i>, <i>99</i>, 277–290. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2019.04.003\">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2019.04.003</a>","mla":"Witschen, Linus Matthias, et al. “CIRCA: Towards a Modular and Extensible Framework for Approximate Circuit Generation.” <i>Microelectronics Reliability</i>, vol. 99, Elsevier, 2019, pp. 277–90, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2019.04.003\">10.1016/j.microrel.2019.04.003</a>.","bibtex":"@article{Witschen_Wiersema_Ghasemzadeh Mohammadi_Awais_Platzner_2019, title={CIRCA: Towards a Modular and Extensible Framework for Approximate Circuit Generation}, volume={99}, DOI={<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2019.04.003\">10.1016/j.microrel.2019.04.003</a>}, journal={Microelectronics Reliability}, publisher={Elsevier}, author={Witschen, Linus Matthias and Wiersema, Tobias and Ghasemzadeh Mohammadi, Hassan and Awais, Muhammad and Platzner, Marco}, year={2019}, pages={277–290} }","ama":"Witschen LM, Wiersema T, Ghasemzadeh Mohammadi H, Awais M, Platzner M. CIRCA: Towards a Modular and Extensible Framework for Approximate Circuit Generation. <i>Microelectronics Reliability</i>. 2019;99:277-290. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2019.04.003\">10.1016/j.microrel.2019.04.003</a>","chicago":"Witschen, Linus Matthias, Tobias Wiersema, Hassan Ghasemzadeh Mohammadi, Muhammad Awais, and Marco Platzner. “CIRCA: Towards a Modular and Extensible Framework for Approximate Circuit Generation.” <i>Microelectronics Reliability</i> 99 (2019): 277–90. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2019.04.003\">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2019.04.003</a>.","short":"L.M. Witschen, T. Wiersema, H. Ghasemzadeh Mohammadi, M. Awais, M. Platzner, Microelectronics Reliability 99 (2019) 277–290."},"publisher":"Elsevier","type":"journal_article","page":"277-290","date_created":"2018-07-20T14:08:49Z","publication":"Microelectronics Reliability","author":[{"first_name":"Linus Matthias","id":"49051","last_name":"Witschen","full_name":"Witschen, Linus Matthias"},{"id":"3118","first_name":"Tobias","last_name":"Wiersema","full_name":"Wiersema, Tobias"},{"id":"61186","first_name":"Hassan","full_name":"Ghasemzadeh Mohammadi, Hassan","last_name":"Ghasemzadeh Mohammadi"},{"id":"64665","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4148-2969","first_name":"Muhammad","last_name":"Awais","full_name":"Awais, Muhammad"},{"last_name":"Platzner","full_name":"Platzner, Marco","first_name":"Marco","id":"398"}],"status":"public","year":"2019","publication_identifier":{"issn":["0026-2714"]},"intvolume":"        99","_id":"3585","doi":"10.1016/j.microrel.2019.04.003","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Existing approaches and tools for the generation of approximate circuits often lack generality and are restricted to certain circuit types, approximation techniques, and quality assurance methods. Moreover, only few tools are publicly available. This hinders the development and evaluation of new techniques for approximating circuits and their comparison to previous approaches. In this paper, we first analyze and classify related approaches and then present CIRCA, our flexible framework for search-based approximate circuit generation. CIRCA is developed with a focus on modularity and extensibility. We present the architecture of CIRCA with its clear separation into stages and functional blocks, report on the current prototype, and show initial experiments."}],"volume":99,"keyword":["Approximate Computing","Framework","Pareto Front","Accuracy"]}