RecLight: A recurrent neural network accelerator with integrated silicon photonics

F Sunny, M Nikdast, S Pasricha - 2022 IEEE Computer Society …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are used in applications that learn dependencies in data
sequences, such as speech recognition, human activity recognition, and anomaly detection …

Towards efficient on-chip communication: A survey on silicon nanophotonics and optical networks-on-chip

UU Nisa, J Bashir - Journal of Systems Architecture, 2024 - Elsevier
Silicon nanophotonics, with its high-speed, low-loss optical interconnects, and high
computation capabilities, is seen as one of the promising technologies that can easily …

ReSiPI: A reconfigurable silicon-photonic 2.5 D chiplet network with PCMs for energy-efficient interposer communication

E Taheri, S Pasricha, M Nikdast - Proceedings of the 41st IEEE/ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
2.5 D chiplet systems have been proposed to improve the low manufacturing yield of large-
scale chips. However, connecting the chiplets through an electronic interposer imposes a …

A silicon photonic accelerator for convolutional neural networks with heterogeneous quantization

F Sunny, M Nikdast, S Pasricha - … of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Parameter quantization in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can help generate efficient
models with lower memory footprint and computational complexity. But, homogeneous …

Lightator: An optical near-sensor accelerator with compressive acquisition enabling versatile image processing

M Morsali, B Reidy, D Najafi, S Tabrizchi… - Proceedings of the 61st …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This paper proposes a high-performance and energy-efficient optical near-sensor
accelerator for vision applications, called Lightator. Harnessing the promising efficiency …

Swint: A non-blocking switch-based silicon photonic interposer network for 2.5 d machine learning accelerators

E Taheri, MA Mahdian, S Pasricha… - IEEE Journal on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The surging demand for machine learning (ML) applications has emphasized the pressing
need for efficient ML accelerators capable of addressing the computational and energy …

TRINE: A Tree-Based Silicon Photonic Interposer Network for Energy-Efficient 2.5 D Machine Learning Acceleration

E Taheri, MA Mahdian, S Pasricha… - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
2.5 D chiplet systems have showcased low manufacturing costs and modular designs for
machine learning (ML) acceleration. Nevertheless, communication challenges arise from …

System-level reliability assessment of optical network on chip

M Baharloo, M Abdollahi, A Baniasadi - Microprocessors and Microsystems, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Optical Network on Chip (ONoC) is now considered a promising alternative to
traditional electrical interconnects. Meanwhile, several challenges such as temperature and …

OISA: Architecting an Optical In-Sensor Accelerator for Efficient Visual Computing

M Morsali, S Tabrizchi, D Najafi, M Imani… - … , Automation & Test …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Targeting vision applications at the edge, in this work, we systematically explore and
propose a high-performance and energy-efficient Optical In-Sensor Accelerator architecture …

Approximate Wireless Communication for Lossy Gradient Updates in IoT Federated Learning

X Ma, H Sun, RQ Hu, Y Qian - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.11035, 2024 - arxiv.org
Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a distributed machine learning (ML) technique that
can protect local data privacy for participating clients and improve system efficiency. Instead …