Publications by Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

Hardware Acceleration of HDR-Image Tone Mapping on an FPGA-CPU Platform Through High-Level Synthesis

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Mattia Cacciotti, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter, Alessandro Pezzotta

In this paper, the hardware acceleration of a tone-mapping algorithm for High-Dynamic-Range image processing is presented. Starting from the C++ source code, High-Level Synthesis has been performed using Xilinx SDSoC for a Xilinx Zynq SoC device. After an ...

IEEE2018

Trading off Energy versus Accuracy in Modern Computing Systems : From Digital Circuit Design to Programming Techniques

Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

The slowdown of Moore's law, which has been the driving force of the electronics industry over the last 5 decades, is causing serious problem to Integrated Circuits (ICs) improvements. Technology scaling is becoming more and more complex and fabrication co ...

EPFL2018

Design of Approximate Circuits by Fabrication of False Timing Paths: The Carry Cut-Back Adder

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Mattia Cacciotti, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

This paper introduces a novel method for designing approximate circuits by fabricating and exploiting false timing paths, i.e. critical paths that cannot be logically activated. This allows to strongly relax timing constraints while guaranteeing minimal an ...

2018

System and Method for Optimization of Digital Circuits with Timing and Behavior Co-Designed by Introduction and Exploitation of False Paths

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

A digital circuit including a signal path with a false path, whereby the signal path includes at least 3 logic instances, the digital circuit further including a logic monitoring element for monitoring a part of the digital circuit, and for outputting a cu ...

2017

Design and Applications of Approximate Circuits by Gate-Level Pruning

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

Energy-efficiency is a critical concern for many systems, ranging from Internet of things objects and mobile devices to high-performance computers. Moreover, after 40 years of prosperity, Moore's law is starting to show its economic and technical limits. N ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Design of Energy-Efficient Discrete Cosine Transform using Pruned Arithmetic Circuits

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

Inexact circuits and approximate computing have been gaining a lot of interest in order to improve performances and energy efficiency beyond the boundaries of conventional digital circuits. Image and video processing is one of the best candidate for applyi ...

IEEE2016

A Low-power Carry Cut-Back Approximate Adder with Fixed-point Implementation and Floating-point Precision

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

This paper introduces an approximate adder architecture based on a digital quasi-feedback technique called Carry Cut-Back in which high-significance stages can cut the carry propagation chain at lower-significance positions. This lightweight approach preve ...

Ieee2016

Approximate 32-Bit Floating-Point Unit Design with 53% Power-Area Product Reduction

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

The floating-point unit is one of the most common building block in any computing system and is used for a huge number of applications. By combining two state-of-the-art techniques of imprecise hardware, namely Gate-Level Pruning and Inexact Speculative Ad ...

Ieee2016

Energy-Efficient Digital Design Through Inexact and Approximate Arithmetic Circuits

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

Inexact and approximate circuit design is a promising approach to improve performance and energy efficiency in technology-scaled and low-power digital systems. Such strategy is suitable for error tolerant applications involving perceptive or statistical ou ...

2015

Automatic Generation of Inexact Digital Circuits by Gate-level Pruning

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

Inexact or approximate circuits show great ability to reduce power consumption at the cost of occasional errors in comparison to their conventional counterparts. Even though the benefits of such circuits have been proven for many applications, they are not ...

2015

Energy-Efficient Inexact Speculative Adder with High Performance and Accuracy Control

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

Inexact and approximate circuit design is a promising approach to improve performance and energy efficiency in technology-scaled and low-power digital systems. Such strategy is suitable for error-tolerant applications involving perceptive or statistical ou ...

2015

Near/Sub-Threshold Circuits and Approximate Computing: The Perfect Combination for Ultra-Low-Power Systems

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

While sub/near-threshold design offers the minimal power and energy consumption, such approach strongly deteriorates circuit performances and robustness against PVT (process/voltage/temperature) variations, leading to gigantic speed penalties and large sil ...

IEEE2015