PACO Introduction

How does it work?

The Paderborn CPU Core for Approximate Computing (PACO) is a CPU that can compute inaccurately but faster & more energy-efficient than a similar CPU that calculates precisely.

• How was it made faster / more energy-efficient? (Concepts)
• What technology is PACO based on? (Technology)
• How much speedup can I achieve? (Results)

Origin

PACO has been created at the University of Paderborn by a group of Master’s students supervised by Prof. Christian Plessl and Dr. Paul Kaufmann. The code base is open source and builds on other open source projects.