High-speed stochastic circuits using synchronous analog pulses

M. Hassan Najafi; David J. Lilja

doi:10.1109/ASPDAC.2017.7858369

High-speed stochastic circuits using synchronous analog pulses

M. Hassan Najafi, David J. Lilja

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

The primary advantages of stochastic computing are the very simple hardware required to implement complex operations, its ability to gracefully tolerate noise, and the skew tolerance. Its relatively long latency, however, is a potential barrier to widespread use of this paradigm, particularly when high accuracy is required. This work proposes a new, high-speed, yet accurate approach for implementing stochastic circuits that uses synchronized analog pulses as a new way of representing correlated stochastic numbers.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2017 22nd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2017
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	481-487
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509015580
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ASPDAC.2017.7858369
State	Published - Feb 16 2017
Event	22nd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2017 - Chiba, Japan Duration: Jan 16 2017 → Jan 19 2017

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Name	Proceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC

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Other	22nd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2017
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Chiba
Period	1/16/17 → 1/19/17

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This work was supported in part by National Science Foundation grant no. CCF-1408123. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF. The authors would like to thank Marc Riedel, Kia Bazargan, and Ramesh Harjani for helpful discussions, and Shiva Jamali-Zavareh for providing the PWM generator and the analog integrator used in the simulations.

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Najafi, M. H., & Lilja, D. J. (2017). High-speed stochastic circuits using synchronous analog pulses. In 2017 22nd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2017 (pp. 481-487). Article 7858369 (Proceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ASPDAC.2017.7858369

High-speed stochastic circuits using synchronous analog pulses. / Najafi, M. Hassan; Lilja, David J.
2017 22nd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. p. 481-487 7858369 (Proceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC).

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Najafi, MH & Lilja, DJ 2017, High-speed stochastic circuits using synchronous analog pulses. in 2017 22nd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2017., 7858369, Proceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 481-487, 22nd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2017, Chiba, Japan, 1/16/17. https://doi.org/10.1109/ASPDAC.2017.7858369

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