Mahdi Nikdast

According to our database, Mahdi Nikdast authored at least 78 papers between 2010 and 2024.

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2024

Lightator: An Optical Near-Sensor Accelerator with Compressive Acquisition Enabling Versatile Image Processing.

Mehrdad Morsali, Brendan Reidy, Deniz Najafi, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Mohsen Imani, Mahdi Nikdast, Arman Roohi, Ramtin Zand, Shaahin Angizi

CoRR, 2024

Silicon Photonic 2.5D Interposer Networks for Overcoming Communication Bottlenecks in Scale-out Machine Learning Hardware Accelerators.

Febin Sunny, Ebadollah Taheri, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha

CoRR, 2024

Accelerating Neural Networks for Large Language Models and Graph Processing with Silicon Photonics.

Salma Afifi, Febin Sunny, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha

CoRR, 2024

2023

Special Issue on the 2023 International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS 2023).

Mahdi Nikdast, Miquel Moretó, Masoumeh Ebrahimi, Sujay Deb

IEEE Des. Test, December, 2023

GHOST: A Graph Neural Network Accelerator using Silicon Photonics.

Salma Afifi, Febin Sunny, Amin Shafiee, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha

ACM Trans. Embed. Comput. Syst., October, 2023

AdEle+: An Adaptive Congestion-and-Energy-Aware Elevator Selection for Partially Connected 3D Networks-on-Chip.

Ebadollah Taheri, Ryan Gary Kim, Mahdi Nikdast

IEEE Trans. Computers, August, 2023

On the Impact of Uncertainties in Silicon-Photonic Neural Networks.

Sanmitra Banerjee, Mahdi Nikdast, Krishnendu Chakrabarty

IEEE Des. Test, April, 2023

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

Mehrdad Morsali, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Deniz Najafi, Mohsen Imani, Mahdi Nikdast, Arman Roohi, Shaahin Angizi

CoRR, 2023

COMET: A Cross-Layer Optimized Optical Phase Change Main Memory Architecture.

Febin Sunny, Amin Shafiee, Benoît Charbonnier, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha

CoRR, 2023

Compact and Low-Loss PCM-based Silicon Photonic MZIs for Photonic Neural Networks.

Amin Shafiee, Sanmitra Banerjee, Benoît Charbonnier, Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast

CoRR, 2023

SerIOS: Enhancing Hardware Security in Integrated Optoelectronic Systems.

Felipe Gohring de Magalhaes, Mahdi Nikdast, Gabriela Nicolescu

CoRR, 2023

Analysis of Optical Loss and Crosstalk Noise in MZI-based Coherent Photonic Neural Networks.

Amin Shafiee, Sanmitra Banerjee, Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast

CoRR, 2023

A Survey on Optical Phase-Change Memory: The Promise and Challenges.

Amin Shafiee, Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast

IEEE Access, 2023

RISA: Round-Robin Intra-Rack Friendly Scheduling Algorithm for Disaggregated Datacenters.

Rashadul Kabir, Ryan Gary Kim, Mahdi Nikdast

Proceedings of the SC '23 Workshops of The International Conference on High Performance Computing, 2023

PARS: A Power-Aware and Reliable Control Plane for Silicon Photonic Switch Fabrics.

Mohammad Amin Mahdian, Ebadollah Taheri, Mahdi Nikdast

Proceedings of the International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing, 2023

Integrated Photonic AI Accelerators Under Hardware Security Attacks: Impacts and Countermeasures.

Felipe Gohring de Magalhaes, Mahdi Nikdast, Gabriela Nicolescu

Proceedings of the 66th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2023

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

Ebadollah Taheri, Mohammad Amin Mahdian, Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast

Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures, 2023

Cross-Layer Design for AI Acceleration with Non-Coherent Optical Computing.

Febin Sunny, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha

Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2023, 2023

Design Space Exploration for PCM-based Photonic Memory.

Amin Shafiee, Benoît Charbonnier, Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast

Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2023, 2023

TRON: Transformer Neural Network Acceleration with Non-Coherent Silicon Photonics.

Salma Afifi, Febin Sunny, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha

Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2023, 2023

Machine Learning Accelerators in 2.5D Chiplet Platforms with Silicon Photonics.

Febin Sunny, Ebadollah Taheri, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha

Proceedings of the Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, 2023

2022

Silicon Photonic Microring Resonators: A Comprehensive Design-Space Exploration and Optimization Under Fabrication-Process Variations.

Asif Mirza, Febin Sunny, Peter Walsh, Karim Hassan, Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast

IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst., 2022

Photonic Networks-on-Chip Employing Multilevel Signaling: A Cross-Layer Comparative Study.

Venkata Sai Praneeth Karempudi, Febin Sunny, Ishan G. Thakkar, Sai Vineel Reddy Chittamuru, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha

ACM J. Emerg. Technol. Comput. Syst., 2022

Characterizing Coherent Integrated Photonic Neural Networks under Imperfections.

Sanmitra Banerjee, Mahdi Nikdast, Krishnendu Chakrabarty

CoRR, 2022

Characterization and Optimization of Integrated Silicon-Photonic Neural Networks under Fabrication-Process Variations.

Asif Mirza, Amin Shafiee, Sanmitra Banerjee, Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast

CoRR, 2022

CHAMP: Coherent Hardware-Aware Magnitude Pruning of Integrated Photonic Neural Networks.

Sanmitra Banerjee, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha, Krishnendu Chakrabarty

Proceedings of the Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, 2022

RecLight: A Recurrent Neural Network Accelerator with Integrated Silicon Photonics.

Febin Sunny, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, 2022

Pruning Coherent Integrated Photonic Neural Networks Using the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis.

Sanmitra Banerjee, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha, Krishnendu Chakrabarty

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, 2022

ReSiPI: A Reconfigurable Silicon-Photonic 2.5D Chiplet Network with PCMs for Energy-Efficient Interposer Communication.

Ebadollah Taheri, Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast

Proceedings of the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2022

A Silicon Photonic Accelerator for Convolutional Neural Networks with Heterogeneous Quantization.

Febin Sunny, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha

Proceedings of the GLSVLSI '22: Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2022, Irvine CA USA, June 6, 2022

LoCI: An Analysis of the Impact of Optical Loss and Crosstalk Noise in Integrated Silicon-Photonic Neural Networks.

Amin Shafiee, Sanmitra Banerjee, Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast

Proceedings of the GLSVLSI '22: Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2022, Irvine CA USA, June 6, 2022

DeFT: A Deadlock-Free and Fault-Tolerant Routing Algorithm for 2.5D Chiplet Networks.

Ebadollah Taheri, Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast

Proceedings of the 2022 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, 2022

SONIC: A Sparse Neural Network Inference Accelerator with Silicon Photonics for Energy-Efficient Deep Learning.

Febin Sunny, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha

Proceedings of the 27th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 2022

2021

ARXON: A Framework for Approximate Communication Over Photonic Networks-on-Chip.

Febin P. Sunny, Asif Mirza, Ishan G. Thakkar, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha

IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. Syst., 2021

ROBIN: A Robust Optical Binary Neural Network Accelerator.

Febin P. Sunny, Asif Mirza, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha

ACM Trans. Embed. Comput. Syst., 2021

A Survey on Silicon Photonics for Deep Learning.

Febin P. Sunny, Ebadollah Taheri, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha

ACM J. Emerg. Technol. Comput. Syst., 2021

HyCo: A Low-Latency Hybrid Control Plane for Optical Interconnection Networks.

Felipe Göhring de Magalhães, Mahdi Nikdast, Fabiano Hessel, Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur, Gabriela Nicolescu

Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping, 2021

Optimizing Coherent Integrated Photonic Neural Networks under Random Uncertainties.

Sanmitra Banerjee, Mahdi Nikdast, Krishnendu Chakrabarty

Proceedings of the Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, 2021

Modeling Silicon-Photonic Neural Networks under Uncertainties.

Sanmitra Banerjee, Mahdi Nikdast, Krishnendu Chakrabarty

Proceedings of the Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, 2021

AdEle: An Adaptive Congestion-and-Energy-Aware Elevator Selection for Partially Connected 3D NoCs.

Ebadollah Taheri, Ryan Gary Kim, Mahdi Nikdast

Proceedings of the 58th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, 2021

CrossLight: A Cross-Layer Optimized Silicon Photonic Neural Network Accelerator.

Febin Sunny, Asif Mirza, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha

Proceedings of the 58th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, 2021

2020

A Survey of Silicon Photonics for Energy-Efficient Manycore Computing.

Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast

IEEE Des. Test, 2020

LORAX: Loss-Aware Approximations for Energy-Efficient Silicon Photonic Networks-on-Chip.

Febin Sunny, Asif Mirza, Ishan G. Thakkar, Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast

Proceedings of the GLSVLSI '20: Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2020, 2020

Silicon Photonic Microring Resonators: Design Optimization Under Fabrication Non-Uniformity.

Asif Mirza, Febin Sunny, Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast

Proceedings of the 2020 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, 2020

Opportunities for Cross-Layer Design in High-Performance Computing Systems with Integrated Silicon Photonic Networks.

Asif Mirza, Shadi Manafi Avari, Ebadollah Taheri, Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast

Proceedings of the 2020 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, 2020

2019

Guest Editors' Introduction: Emerging Networks-on-Chip Designs, Technologies, and Applications.

Edoardo Fusella, Mahdi Nikdast, Ian O'Connor, José Flich, Sudeep Pasricha

ACM J. Emerg. Technol. Comput. Syst., 2019

Wavelength-Routed Optical NoCs: Design and EDA - State of the Art and Future Directions: Invited Paper.

Tsun-Ming Tseng, Alexandre Truppel, Mengchu Li, Mahdi Nikdast, Ulf Schlichtmann

Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2019

2018

DeEPeR: Enhancing Performance and Reliability in Chip-Scale Optical Interconnection Networks.

Mahdi Nikdast, Gabriela Nicolescu, Jelena Trajkovic, Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur

Proceedings of the 2018 on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 2018

Silicon Photonic Interconnects: Minimizing the Controller Latency.

Felipe Gohring de Magalhaes, Mahdi Nikdast, Yule Xiong, Fabiano Hessel, Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur, Gabriela Nicolescu

Proceedings of the 2018 on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 2018

2017

HypAp: A Hypervolume-Based Approach for Refining the Design of Embedded Systems.

Rabeh Ayari, Mahdi Nikdast, Imane Hafnaoui, Giovanni Beltrame, Gabriela Nicolescu

IEEE Embed. Syst. Lett., 2017

2016

Coherent and Incoherent Crosstalk Noise Analyses in Interchip/Intrachip Optical Interconnection Networks.

Luan H. K. Duong, Zhehui Wang, Mahdi Nikdast, Jiang Xu, Peng Yang, Zhifei Wang, Zhe Wang, Rafael K. V. Maeda, Haoran Li, Xuan Wang, Sébastien Le Beux, Yvain Thonnart

IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. Syst., 2016

Design and Modelling of a Low-Latency Centralized Controller for Optical Integrated Networks.

Felipe Gohring de Magalhaes, Rubana Priti, Mahdi Nikdast, Fabiano Hessel, Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur, Gabriela Nicolescu

IEEE Commun. Lett., 2016

Photonic integrated circuits: A study on process variations.

Mahdi Nikdast, Gabriela Nicolescu, Jelena Trajkovic, Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur

Proceedings of the Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, 2016

Modeling fabrication non-uniformity in chip-scale silicon photonic interconnects.

Mahdi Nikdast, Gabriela Nicolescu, Jelena Trajkovic, Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur

Proceedings of the 2016 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, 2016

2015

An Inter/Intra-Chip Optical Network for Manycore Processors.

Xiaowen Wu, Jiang Xu, Yaoyao Ye, Xuan Wang, Mahdi Nikdast, Zhehui Wang, Zhe Wang

IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. Syst., 2015

Actively Alleviate Power Gating-Induced Power/Ground Noise Using Parasitic Capacitance of On-Chip Memories in MPSoC.

Xuan Wang, Jiang Xu, Wei Zhang, Xiaowen Wu, Yaoyao Ye, Zhehui Wang, Mahdi Nikdast, Zhe Wang

IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. Syst., 2015

Crosstalk Noise in WDM-Based Optical Networks-on-Chip: A Formal Study and Comparison.

Mahdi Nikdast, Jiang Xu, Luan Huu Kinh Duong, Xiaowen Wu, Xuan Wang, Zhehui Wang, Zhe Wang, Peng Yang, Yaoyao Ye, Qinfen Hao

IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. Syst., 2015

Fat-Tree-Based Optical Interconnection Networks Under Crosstalk Noise Constraint.

Mahdi Nikdast, Jiang Xu, Luan H. K. Duong, Xiaowen Wu, Zhehui Wang, Xuan Wang, Zhe Wang

IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. Syst., 2015

Coherent crosstalk noise analyses in ring-based optical interconnects.

Luan H. K. Duong, Mahdi Nikdast, Jiang Xu, Zhehui Wang, Yvain Thonnart, Sébastien Le Beux, Peng Yang, Xiaowen Wu, Zhifei Wang

Proceedings of the 2015 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, 2015

2014

UNION: A Unified Inter/Intrachip Optical Network for Chip Multiprocessors.

Xiaowen Wu, Yaoyao Ye, Jiang Xu, Wei Zhang, Weichen Liu, Mahdi Nikdast, Xuan Wang

IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. Syst., 2014

System-Level Modeling and Analysis of Thermal Effects in WDM-Based Optical Networks-on-Chip.

Yaoyao Ye, Zhehui Wang, Peng Yang, Jiang Xu, Xiaowen Wu, Xuan Wang, Mahdi Nikdast, Zhe Wang, Luan H. K. Duong

IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst., 2014

Systematic Analysis of Crosstalk Noise in Folded-Torus-Based Optical Networks-on-Chip.

Mahdi Nikdast, Jiang Xu, Xiaowen Wu, Wei Zhang, Yaoyao Ye, Xuan Wang, Zhehui Wang, Zhe Wang

IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst., 2014

Floorplan Optimization of Fat-Tree-Based Networks-on-Chip for Chip Multiprocessors.

Zhehui Wang, Jiang Xu, Xiaowen Wu, Yaoyao Ye, Wei Zhang, Mahdi Nikdast, Xuan Wang, Zhe Wang

IEEE Trans. Computers, 2014

SUOR: Sectioned Undirectional Optical Ring for Chip Multiprocessor.

Xiaowen Wu, Jiang Xu, Yaoyao Ye, Zhehui Wang, Mahdi Nikdast, Xuan Wang

ACM J. Emerg. Technol. Comput. Syst., 2014

On-chip sensor networks for soft-error tolerant real-time multiprocessor systems-on-chip.

Weichen Liu, Xuan Wang, Jiang Xu, Wei Zhang, Yaoyao Ye, Xiaowen Wu, Mahdi Nikdast, Zhehui Wang

ACM J. Emerg. Technol. Comput. Syst., 2014

A Case Study of Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Ring-Based Optical Networks-on-Chip.

Luan H. K. Duong, Mahdi Nikdast, Sébastien Le Beux, Jiang Xu, Xiaowen Wu, Zhehui Wang, Peng Yang

IEEE Des. Test, 2014

CLAP: a crosstalk and loss analysis platform for optical interconnects.

Mahdi Nikdast, Luan H. K. Duong, Jiang Xu, Sébastien Le Beux, Xiaowen Wu, Zhehui Wang, Peng Yang, Yaoyao Ye

Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip, 2014

2013

System-Level Modeling and Analysis of Thermal Effects in Optical Networks-on-Chip.

Yaoyao Ye, Jiang Xu, Xiaowen Wu, Wei Zhang, Xuan Wang, Mahdi Nikdast, Zhehui Wang, Weichen Liu

IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. Syst., 2013

Formal Worst-Case Analysis of Crosstalk Noise in Mesh-Based Optical Networks-on-Chip.

Yiyuan Xie, Mahdi Nikdast, Jiang Xu, Xiaowen Wu, Wei Zhang, Yaoyao Ye, Xuan Wang, Zhehui Wang, Weichen Liu

IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. Syst., 2013

3-D Mesh-Based Optical Network-on-Chip for Multiprocessor System-on-Chip.

Yaoyao Ye, Jiang Xu, Baihan Huang, Xiaowen Wu, Wei Zhang, Xuan Wang, Mahdi Nikdast, Zhehui Wang, Weichen Liu, Zhe Wang

IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst., 2013

System-level analysis of mesh-based hybrid optical-electronic network-on-chip.

Yaoyao Ye, Xiaowen Wu, Jiang Xu, Mahdi Nikdast, Zhehui Wang, Xuan Wang, Zhe Wang

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2013), 2013

Active power-gating-induced power/ground noise alleviation using parasitic capacitance of on-chip memories.

Xuan Wang, Jiang Xu, Wei Zhang, Xiaowen Wu, Yaoyao Ye, Zhehui Wang, Mahdi Nikdast, Zhe Wang

Proceedings of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe, 2013

2012

A Torus-Based Hierarchical Optical-Electronic Network-on-Chip for Multiprocessor System-on-Chip.

Yaoyao Ye, Jiang Xu, Xiaowen Wu, Wei Zhang, Weichen Liu, Mahdi Nikdast

ACM J. Emerg. Technol. Comput. Syst., 2012

2011

Modeling and Analysis of Thermal Effects in Optical Networks-on-Chip.

Yaoyao Ye, Jiang Xu, Xiaowen Wu, Wei Zhang, Xuan Wang, Mahdi Nikdast, Zhehui Wang, Weichen Liu

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, 2011

A NoC Traffic Suite Based on Real Applications.

Weichen Liu, Jiang Xu, Xiaowen Wu, Yaoyao Ye, Xuan Wang, Wei Zhang, Mahdi Nikdast, Zhehui Wang

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, 2011

A Hardware-Software Collaborated Method for Soft-Error Tolerant MPSoC.

Weichen Liu, Jiang Xu, Xuan Wang, Yu Wang, Wei Zhang, Yaoyao Ye, Xiaowen Wu, Mahdi Nikdast, Zhehui Wang

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, 2011

2010

UNION: A unified inter/intra-chip optical network for chip multiprocessors.

Xiaowen Wu, Yaoyao Ye, Wei Zhang, Weichen Liu, Mahdi Nikdast, Xuan Wang, Jiang Xu

Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, 2010

Crosstalk noise and bit error rate analysis for optical network-on-chip.

Yiyuan Xie, Mahdi Nikdast, Jiang Xu, Wei Zhang, Qi Li, Xiaowen Wu, Yaoyao Ye, Xuan Wang, Weichen Liu

Proceedings of the 47th Design Automation Conference, 2010