Abstract:
This paper aims to present a reconfigurable rounding based
multiplier with different accuracy levels. It is based on a divide and
conquer approach for applications in image processing. Our proposed
approach divides the multiplicand and multiplier into two halves.
Each half is multiplied with the other and our architecture is made
accuracy-configurable. Further, due to rounding based approach, our
approximate multiplication technique generates results faster. Based on
our experiments, we observe that our proposed multiplier is 26.3% more
accurate on an average compared to other state-of-the-art approximate
multipliers for 8-bit operations
