Re:Probabilistic processors possibly pack potent punch
by modeless on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @02:45AM
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Do you have a citation for the lossy video thing? Seems like it could be good for rendering graphics too. For a 12x power savings maybe I can live with my pixels coming out #00FE00 instead of #00FF00 (for example).
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Re:Probabilistic processors possibly pack potent punch
by psyklic on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @03:50AM
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Sure -- http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/20246/. Specifically, they have "implemented filter primitives using PCMOS technology, used to realize the H.264 decoding algorithm." (from http://www.cs.rice.edu/~lc6/visen/2006vlsisoc.pdf). That paper does not go into much detail about the video implementation, but it seems they discussed it more in a conference presentation.
The relevant part of the technology review article: "That changed in 2006. [Palem] and his students simulated a PCMOS circuit that would be part of a chip for processing video, such as streaming video in a cell phone, and compared it with the performance of existing chips. They presented the work at a technical conference, and in a show of hands, much of the audience couldn't discern any difference in picture quality."