Design and Evaluation of Approximate Logarithmic Multipliers for Low Power Error-Tolerant Applications.

In this paper, the designs of both non-iterative and iterative approximate logarithmic multipliers (ALMs) are studied to further reduce power consumption and improve performance. Non-iterative ALMs, that use three inexact mantissa adders, are presented. The proposed iterative ALMs (IALMs) use a set-one adder in both mantissa adders during an iteration; they also use lower-part-or adders and approx...