SAS - A Framework for Symmetry-based Approximate Synthesis

Approximate Computing is a design paradigm that trades off computational accuracy for gains in non-functional aspects such as reduced area, increased computation speed, or power reduction. The latter is of special interest in the field of Internet of Things. In this paper we present SAS, a framework for symmetry-based approximate logic synthesis. Given a Boolean multi-output function, SAS approximates it by (partially) replacing its output functions by symmetric functions with minimal Hamming distance. The framework is capable of restricting the introduced error with respect to a parameterized error metric that covers many real-word use-cases.