Approximate Computing: A Survey of Recent Trends Bringing Greenness to Computing and Communication
Energy efficient computing is a much needed technological advantage for future. Approximate or inexact computing is a computing paradigm that can trade energy and computing time with accuracy of output. Recent years have seen a lot of researches in industry as well as academia. The aim of these researches is to fruitfully realize the dream of a greener and energy efficient computing era. This paper presents a comprehensive and concise survey of the current research trends and contributions in energy efficient computing from computational point of view. Recent developments in approximate computing hardware, software and approximate data communication have also been discussed in this article.
Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India) Series B