Title
Accelerated Performance Evaluation of Fixed-Point Systems With Un-Smooth Operations
Abstract
The problem of accuracy evaluation is one of the most time consuming tasks during the fixed-point refinement process. Analytical techniques based on perturbation theory have been proposed in order to overcome the need for long fixed-point simulation. However, these techniques are not applicable in the presence of certain operations classified as un-smooth operations. In such circumstances, fixed-point simulation should be used. In this paper, an algorithm detailing the hybrid technique which makes use of an analytical accuracy evaluation technique used to accelerate fixed-point simulation is presented. This technique is applicable to signal processing systems with both feed-forward and feedback interconnect topology between its operations. The acceleration obtained as a result of applications of the proposed technique is consistent with fixed-point simulation, while reducing the time taken for fixed-point simulation by several orders of magnitude.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/TCAD.2013.2292510
Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions  
Keywords
DocType
Volume
fixed point arithmetic,optimisation,perturbation theory,signal processing,accelerated performance evaluation,analytical accuracy evaluation technique,feedback interconnect topology,feedforward interconnect topology,fixed point systems,hybrid technique,perturbation theory,signal processing systems,unsmooth operations,Accuracy estimation,fixed-point refinement,perturbation theory,quantization noise,signal processing
Journal
33
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0278-0070
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
12
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Karthick Nagaraj Parashar120.42
Daniel Menard220719.00
Olivier Sentieys359773.35