Andrea Marenco
Design of Approximate Digital Circuits on Advanced Semiconductor Technologies.
Rel. Guido Masera. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Nanotechnologies For Icts, 2024
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Abstract
This thesis investigates the design of approximate digital circuits with Gaussian error distributions, primarily targeting, but not limited to, Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) applications. The growing importance of PQC in secure communications highlights the need for efficient and reliable arithmetic circuits. The primary objective of this research is to develop an architecture that integrates Gaussian noise directly into the design of an approx- imate adder, thus eliminating the need for external noise sources. Existing architectures of approximate adders in the literature primarily focus on sacrificing accuracy for efficiency, such as in area, power consumption or clock frequency, rather than on controlling the error distribution.
To address this gap, a novel structure, called Approximator, was developed, along with a method to derive its architecture based on the desired standard deviation
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