Work-in-Progress: A Partitioning Strategy for exploring Error-Resilience in Circuits

Approximate hardware design techniques are becoming popular solutions for energy-aware systems and powerhungry applications. In many cases, it is of primary concern to know which parts of the employed hardware are most resilient, so as to simplify these parts without excessively corrupting the quality of the result. We present here a generic and novel strategy to efficiently derive the influence of each circuit gate on the final output.