Design and implementation of an 8-bit approximate Wallace Tree Multiplier for energy efficient deep neural networks

Approximate arithmetic computing circuits and architectures have been proven to be energy efficient designs for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) which are error resilient. In this paper, an approximate 8-bit Wallace Multiplier has been proposed and designed in 90nm CMOS technology for energy efficiency. The proposed 8-bit approximate multiplier design consumes ~32% less energy in comparison to an accurate 8-bit Wallace Tree multiplier with less than 20% Mean Relative Error (MRE).