Brian Zimmer

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2012-2024
Publications (10 Years): 41

Top Topics

Gradient Vector

Uniform Quantization

Top Venues

IEEE J. Solid State Circuits

VLSI Technology and Circuits

Publications

Walker J. Turner, John W. Poulton, Yoshinori Nishi, Xi Chen, Brian Zimmer, Sanquan Song, John M. Wilson, William J. Dally, C. Thomas Gray
Leveraging Micro-Bump Pitch Scaling to Accelerate Interposer Link Bandwidths for Future High-Performance Compute Applications. CICC (2024)
Yoshinori Nishi, John W. Poulton, Walker J. Turner, Xi Chen, Sanquan Song, Brian Zimmer, Stephen G. Tell, Nikola Nedovic, John M. Wilson, William J. Dally, C. Thomas Gray
A 0.190-pJ/bit 25.2-Gb/s/wire Inverter-Based AC-Coupled Transceiver for Short-Reach Die-to-Die Interfaces in 5-nm CMOS. IEEE J. Solid State Circuits 59 (4) (2024)
Sudhir S. Kudva, Mahmut Ersin Sinangil, Stephen G. Tell, Nikola Nedovic, Sanquan Song, Brian Zimmer, C. Thomas Gray
16.4 High-Density and Low-Power PUF Designs in 5nm Achieving 23× and 39× BER Reduction After Unstable Bit Detection and Masking. ISSCC (2024)
Ben Keller, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Steve Dai, Stephen G. Tell, Brian Zimmer, Charbel Sakr, William J. Dally, C. Thomas Gray, Brucek Khailany
A 95.6-TOPS/W Deep Learning Inference Accelerator With Per-Vector Scaled 4-bit Quantization in 5 nm. IEEE J. Solid State Circuits 58 (4) (2023)
Yoshinori Nishi, John W. Poulton, Walker J. Turner, Xi Chen, Sanquan Song, Brian Zimmer, Stephen G. Tell, Nikola Nedovic, John M. Wilson, William J. Dally, C. Thomas Gray
A 0.297-pJ/Bit 50.4-Gb/s/Wire Inverter-Based Short-Reach Simultaneous Bi-Directional Transceiver for Die-to-Die Interface in 5-nm CMOS. IEEE J. Solid State Circuits 58 (4) (2023)
Yoshinori Nishi, John W. Poulton, Xi Chen, Sanquan Song, Brian Zimmer, Walker J. Turner, Stephen G. Tell, Nikola Nedovic, John M. Wilson, William J. Dally, C. Thomas Gray
A 0.190-pJ/bit 25.2-Gb/s/wire Inverter-Based AC-Coupled Transceiver for Short-Reach Die-to-Die Interfaces in 5-nm CMOS. VLSI Technology and Circuits (2023)
Yoshinori Nishi, John W. Poulton, Xi Chen, Sanquan Song, Brian Zimmer, Walker J. Turner, Stephen G. Tell, Nikola Nedovic, John M. Wilson, William J. Dally, C. Thomas Gray
A 0.297-pJ/bit 50.4-Gb/s/wire Inverter-Based Short-Reach Simultaneous Bidirectional Transceiver for Die-to-Die Interface in 5nm CMOS. VLSI Technology and Circuits (2022)
Charbel Sakr, Steve Dai, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Brian Zimmer, William J. Dally, Brucek Khailany
Optimal Clipping and Magnitude-aware Differentiation for Improved Quantization-aware Training. ICML (2022)
Sanquan Song, Stephen G. Tell, Brian Zimmer, Sudhir S. Kudva, Nikola Nedovic, C. Thomas Gray
An FLL-Based Clock Glitch Detector for Security Circuits in a 5nm FINFET Process. VLSI Technology and Circuits (2022)
Jiawei Zhao, Steve Dai, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Brian Zimmer, Mustafa Fayez Ali, Ming-Yu Liu, Brucek Khailany, William J. Dally, Anima Anandkumar
LNS-Madam: Low-Precision Training in Logarithmic Number System Using Multiplicative Weight Update. IEEE Trans. Computers 71 (12) (2022)
Charbel Sakr, Steve Dai, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Brian Zimmer, William J. Dally, Brucek Khailany
Optimal Clipping and Magnitude-aware Differentiation for Improved Quantization-aware Training. CoRR (2022)
Hao Chen, Walker J. Turner, Sanquan Song, Keren Zhu, George F. Kokai, Brian Zimmer, C. Thomas Gray, Brucek Khailany, David Z. Pan, Haoxing Ren
AutoCRAFT: Layout Automation for Custom Circuits in Advanced FinFET Technologies. ISPD (2022)
Ben Keller, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Steve Dai, Stephen G. Tell, Brian Zimmer, William J. Dally, C. Thomas Gray, Brucek Khailany
A 17-95.6 TOPS/W Deep Learning Inference Accelerator with Per-Vector Scaled 4-bit Quantization for Transformers in 5nm. VLSI Technology and Circuits (2022)
Steve Dai, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Mark Ren, Brian Zimmer, William J. Dally, Brucek Khailany
VS-Quant: Per-vector Scaled Quantization for Accurate Low-Precision Neural Network Inference. MLSys (2021)
Steve Dai, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Haoxing Ren, Brian Zimmer, William J. Dally, Brucek Khailany
VS-Quant: Per-vector Scaled Quantization for Accurate Low-Precision Neural Network Inference. CoRR (2021)
Yakun Sophia Shao, Jason Clemons, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Brian Zimmer, Matthew Fojtik, Nan Jiang, Ben Keller, Alicia Klinefelter, Nathaniel Ross Pinckney, Priyanka Raina, Stephen G. Tell, Yanqing Zhang, William J. Dally, Joel S. Emer, C. Thomas Gray, Brucek Khailany, Stephen W. Keckler
Simba: scaling deep-learning inference with chiplet-based architecture. Commun. ACM 64 (6) (2021)
Xi Chen, Nikola Nedovic, Stephen G. Tell, Sudhir S. Kudva, Brian Zimmer, Thomas H. Greer, John W. Poulton, Sanquan Song, Walker J. Turner, John M. Wilson, C. Thomas Gray
6.6 Reference-Noise Compensation Scheme for Single-Ended Package-to-Package Links. ISSCC (2020)
Brian Zimmer, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Yakun Sophia Shao, Jason Clemons, Matthew Fojtik, Nan Jiang, Ben Keller, Alicia Klinefelter, Nathaniel Ross Pinckney, Priyanka Raina, Stephen G. Tell, Yanqing Zhang, William J. Dally, Joel S. Emer, C. Thomas Gray, Stephen W. Keckler, Brucek Khailany
A 0.32-128 TOPS, Scalable Multi-Chip-Module-Based Deep Neural Network Inference Accelerator With Ground-Referenced Signaling in 16 nm. IEEE J. Solid State Circuits 55 (4) (2020)
John W. Poulton, John M. Wilson, Walker J. Turner, Brian Zimmer, Xi Chen, Sudhir S. Kudva, Sanquan Song, Stephen G. Tell, Nikola Nedovic, Wenxu Zhao, Sunil R. Sudhakaran, C. Thomas Gray, William J. Dally
A 1.17-pJ/b, 25-Gb/s/pin Ground-Referenced Single-Ended Serial Link for Off- and On-Package Communication Using a Process- and Temperature-Adaptive Voltage Regulator. IEEE J. Solid State Circuits 54 (1) (2019)
Rangharajan Venkatesan, Yakun Sophia Shao, Miaorong Wang, Jason Clemons, Steve Dai, Matthew Fojtik, Ben Keller, Alicia Klinefelter, Nathaniel Ross Pinckney, Priyanka Raina, Yanqing Zhang, Brian Zimmer, William J. Dally, Joel S. Emer, Stephen W. Keckler, Brucek Khailany
MAGNet: A Modular Accelerator Generator for Neural Networks. ICCAD (2019)
Brian Zimmer, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Yakun Sophia Shao, Jason Clemons, Matthew Fojtik, Nan Jiang, Ben Keller, Alicia Klinefelter, Nathaniel Ross Pinckney, Priyanka Raina, Stephen G. Tell, Yanqing Zhang, William J. Dally, Joel S. Emer, C. Thomas Gray, Stephen W. Keckler, Brucek Khailany
A 0.11 pJ/Op, 0.32-128 TOPS, Scalable Multi-Chip-Module-based Deep Neural Network Accelerator with Ground-Reference Signaling in 16nm. VLSI Circuits (2019)
Angad S. Rekhi, Brian Zimmer, Nikola Nedovic, Ningxi Liu, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Miaorong Wang, Brucek Khailany, William J. Dally, C. Thomas Gray
Analog/Mixed-Signal Hardware Error Modeling for Deep Learning Inference. DAC (2019)
Yakun Sophia Shao, Jason Clemons, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Brian Zimmer, Matthew Fojtik, Nan Jiang, Ben Keller, Alicia Klinefelter, Nathaniel Ross Pinckney, Priyanka Raina, Stephen G. Tell, Yanqing Zhang, William J. Dally, Joel S. Emer, C. Thomas Gray, Brucek Khailany, Stephen W. Keckler
Simba: Scaling Deep-Learning Inference with Multi-Chip-Module-Based Architecture. MICRO (2019)
Matthew Fojtik, Ben Keller, Alicia Klinefelter, Nathaniel Ross Pinckney, Stephen G. Tell, Brian Zimmer, Tezaswi Raja, Kevin Zhou, William J. Dally, Brucek Khailany
A Fine-Grained GALS SoC with Pausible Adaptive Clocking in 16 nm FinFET. ASYNC (2019)
Sanquan Song, John Poulton, Xi Chen, Brian Zimmer, Stephen G. Tell, Walker J. Turner, Sudhir S. Kudva, Nikola Nedovic, John M. Wilson, C. Thomas Gray, William J. Dally
A 2-to-20 GHz Multi-Phase Clock Generator with Phase Interpolators Using Injection-Locked Oscillation Buffers for High-Speed IOs in 16nm FinFET. CICC (2019)
Xi Chen, Sanquan Song, John Poulton, Nikola Nedovic, Brian Zimmer, Stephen G. Tell, C. Thomas Gray
Voltage-Follower Coupling Quadrature Oscillator with Embedded Phase-Interpolator in 16nm FinFET. CICC (2019)
Rangharajan Venkatesan, Yakun Sophia Shao, Brian Zimmer, Jason Clemons, Matthew Fojtik, Nan Jiang, Ben Keller, Alicia Klinefelter, Nathaniel Ross Pinckney, Priyanka Raina, Stephen G. Tell, Yanqing Zhang, William J. Dally, Joel S. Emer, C. Thomas Gray, Stephen W. Keckler, Brucek Khailany
A 0.11 PJ/OP, 0.32-128 Tops, Scalable Multi-Chip-Module-Based Deep Neural Network Accelerator Designed with A High-Productivity vlsi Methodology. Hot Chips Symposium (2019)
Walker J. Turner, John W. Poulton, John M. Wilson, Xi Chen, Stephen G. Tell, Matthew Fojtik, Thomas H. Greer, Brian Zimmer, Sanquan Song, Nikola Nedovic, Sudhir S. Kudva, Sunil R. Sudhakaran, Rizwan Bashirullah, Wenxu Zhao, William J. Dally, C. Thomas Gray
Ground-referenced signaling for intra-chip and short-reach chip-to-chip interconnects. CICC (2018)
Brucek Khailany, Evgeni Khmer, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Jason Clemons, Joel S. Emer, Matthew Fojtik, Alicia Klinefelter, Michael Pellauer, Nathaniel Ross Pinckney, Yakun Sophia Shao, Shreesha Srinath, Christopher Torng, Sam Likun Xi, Yanqing Zhang, Brian Zimmer
A modular digital VLSI flow for high-productivity SoC design. DAC (2018)
Michael B. Sullivan, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Brian Zimmer, Timothy Tsai, Stephen W. Keckler
SwapCodes: Error Codes for Hardware-Software Cooperative GPU Pipeline Error Detection. MICRO (2018)
John M. Wilson, Walker J. Turner, John W. Poulton, Brian Zimmer, Xi Chen, Sudhir S. Kudva, Sanquan Song, Stephen G. Tell, Nikola Nedovic, Wenxu Zhao, Sunil R. Sudhakaran, C. Thomas Gray, William J. Dally
A 1.17pJ/b 25Gb/s/pin ground-referenced single-ended serial link for off- and on-package communication in 16nm CMOS using a process- and temperature-adaptive voltage regulator. ISSCC (2018)
Ben Keller, Martin Cochet, Brian Zimmer, Jaehwa Kwak, Alberto Puggelli, Yunsup Lee, Milovan Blagojevic, Stevo Bailey, Pi-Feng Chiu, Daniel Palmer Dabbelt, Colin Schmidt, Elad Alon, Krste Asanovic, Borivoje Nikolic
A RISC-V Processor SoC With Integrated Power Management at Submicrosecond Timescales in 28 nm FD-SOI. IEEE J. Solid State Circuits 52 (7) (2017)
Brian Zimmer, Pi-Feng Chiu, Borivoje Nikolic, Krste Asanovic
Reduction in a 28-nm RISC-V Processor. IEEE J. Solid State Circuits 52 (10) (2017)
Brian Zimmer, Yunsup Lee, Alberto Puggelli, Jaehwa Kwak, Ruzica Jevtic, Ben Keller, Steven Bailey, Milovan Blagojevic, Pi-Feng Chiu, Hanh-Phuc Le, Po-Hung Chen, Nicholas Sutardja, Rimas Avizienis, Andrew Waterman, Brian C. Richards, Philippe Flatresse, Elad Alon, Krste Asanovic, Borivoje Nikolic
A RISC-V Vector Processor With Simultaneous-Switching Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converters in 28 nm FDSOI. IEEE J. Solid State Circuits 51 (4) (2016)
Martin Cochet, Alberto Puggelli, Ben Keller, Brian Zimmer, Milovan Blagojevic, Sylvain Clerc, Philippe Roche, Jean-Luc Autran, Borivoje Nikolic
On-chip supply power measurement and waveform reconstruction in a 28nm FD-SOI processor SoC. A-SSCC (2016)
Donggyu Kim, Adam M. Izraelevitz, Christopher Celio, Hokeun Kim, Brian Zimmer, Yunsup Lee, Jonathan Bachrach, Krste Asanovic
Strober: Fast and Accurate Sample-Based Energy Simulation for Arbitrary RTL. ISCA (2016)
Yunsup Lee, Andrew Waterman, Henry Cook, Brian Zimmer, Ben Keller, Alberto Puggelli, Jaehwa Kwak, Ruzica Jevtic, Stevo Bailey, Milovan Blagojevic, Pi-Feng Chiu, Rimas Avizienis, Brian C. Richards, Jonathan Bachrach, David A. Patterson, Elad Alon, Bora Nikolic, Krste Asanovic
An Agile Approach to Building RISC-V Microprocessors. IEEE Micro 36 (2) (2016)
Brian Zimmer, Pi-Feng Chiu, Borivoje Nikolic, Krste Asanovic
Reprogrammable redundancy for cache Vmin reduction in a 28nm RISC-V processor. A-SSCC (2016)
Ben Keller, Martin Cochet, Brian Zimmer, Yunsup Lee, Milovan Blagojevic, Jaehwa Kwak, Alberto Puggelli, Stevo Bailey, Pi-Feng Chiu, Daniel Palmer Dabbelt, Colin Schmidt, Elad Alon, Krste Asanovic, Borivoje Nikolic
Sub-microsecond adaptive voltage scaling in a 28nm FD-SOI processor SoC. ESSCIRC (2016)
Mahmut E. Sinangil, John W. Poulton, Matthew R. Fojtik, Thomas H. Greer, Stephen G. Tell, Andreas J. Gotterba, Jesse Wang, Jason Golbus, Brian Zimmer, William J. Dally, C. Thomas Gray
A 28 nm 2 Mbit 6 T SRAM With Highly Configurable Low-Voltage Write-Ability Assist Implementation and Capacitor-Based Sense-Amplifier Input Offset Compensation. IEEE J. Solid State Circuits 51 (2) (2016)
Pi-Feng Chiu, Brian Zimmer, Borivoje Nikolic
A double-tail sense amplifier for low-voltage SRAM in 28nm technology. A-SSCC (2016)
Brian Zimmer, Yunsup Lee, Alberto Puggelli, Jaehwa Kwak, Ruzica Jevtic, Ben Keller, Stevo Bailey, Milovan Blagojevic, Pi-Feng Chiu, Hanh-Phuc Le, Po-Hung Chen, Nicholas Sutardja, Rimas Avizienis, Andrew Waterman, Brian C. Richards, Philippe Flatresse, Elad Alon, Krste Asanovic, Borivoje Nikolic
A RISC-V vector processor with tightly-integrated switched-capacitor DC-DC converters in 28nm FDSOI. VLSIC (2015)
Yunsup Lee, Brian Zimmer, Andrew Waterman, Alberto Puggelli, Jaehwa Kwak, Ruzica Jevtic, Ben Keller, Stevo Bailey, Milovan Blagojevic, Pi-Feng Chiu, Henry Cook, Rimas Avizienis, Brian C. Richards, Elad Alon, Borivoje Nikolic, Krste Asanovic
Raven: A 28nm RISC-V vector processor with integrated switched-capacitor DC-DC converters and adaptive clocking. Hot Chips Symposium (2015)
Brian Zimmer, Olivier Thomas, Seng Oon Toh, Taylor Vincent, Krste Asanovic, Borivoje Nikolic
Joint impact of random variations and RTN on dynamic writeability in 28nm bulk and FDSOI SRAM. ESSDERC (2014)
Brian Zimmer, Seng Oon Toh, Huy Vo, Yunsup Lee, Olivier Thomas, Krste Asanovic, Borivoje Nikolic
SRAM Assist Techniques for Operation in a Wide Voltage Range in 28-nm CMOS. IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. II Express Briefs (12) (2012)