Probabilistic arithmetic for digital signal processing application

Abstract

Nano-scale electronic circuits would unavoidably show probabilistic behavior. The purpose of my project is to investigate the use of probabilistic hardware (arithmetic approach in my project) in multimedia processing applications. The project will evaluate the impact of probabilistic computation on accuracy and energy consumption of multimedia processing algorithms with a focus on jpeg and M-pegl encoding. The nature of this project is software programming of multimedia application with probabilistic arithmetic primitives.