Fixed-point iterative linear inverse solver with extended precision

05/05/2021
by   Zheyuan Zhu, et al.
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Solving linear systems is a ubiquitous task in science and engineering. Because directly inverting a large-scale linear system can be computationally expensive, iterative algorithms are often used to numerically find the inverse. To accommodate the dynamic range and precision requirements, these iterative algorithms are often carried out on floating-point processing units. Low-precision, fixed-point processors require only a fraction of the energy per operation consumed by their floating-point counterparts, yet their current usages exclude iterative solvers due to the computational errors arising from fixed-point arithmetic. In this work, we show that for a simple iterative algorithm, such as Richardson iteration, using a fixed-point processor can provide the same rate of convergence and achieve high-precision solutions beyond its native precision limit when combined with residual iteration. These results indicate that power-efficient computing platform consisting of analog computing devices can be used to solve a broad range of problems without compromising the speed or precision.

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