Welcome to XZ Group at Washington University in St. Louis! We work at the intersection of IC design/VLSI, computer architecture, robotics, and artificial intelligence.
[Update] As of January 2024, XZ Group will be moving to Northeastern University in Boston, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering.
LATEST NEWS:
Two papers accepted by DATE 2018 (11/08/2018)
Weidong’s paper titled “NeuADC: Neural Network-Inspired RRAM-Based Synthesizable Analog-to-Digital Conversion with Reconfigurable Quantization Support” and Huifeng’s paper titled “When Capacitors Attack: Formal Method DrivenDesign and Detection of Charge-Domain Trojans” are accepted by DATE 2019 Design, Automation and Test in Europe.
One paper accepted by MICRO 2018 (07/18/2018)
An’s paper titled “Voltage-stacked GPUs: A Control Theory Driven Cross-Layer Solution for Practical Voltage Stacking in GPUs” is accepted by 51st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO).
Two papers accepted by ISLPED 2018 (05/04/2018)
Xin’s paper titled “AxTrain: Hardware-Oriented Neural Network Training for Approximate Inference” and Liu’s paper titled “NNest: Early-Stage Design Space Exploration Tool for Neural Network Inference Accelerators” are accepted by ISLPED 2018 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design.
One paper accepted by IEEE JETCAS (04/30/2018)
Xin’s paper titled “Joint Design of Training and Hardware Towards Efficient and Accuracy-Scalable Neural Network Inference” is accepted by IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems.
Prof. Zhang receives Outstanding Teacher Award (4/18/2018)
Prof. Xuan ‘Silvia’ Zhang is recognized for her teaching efforts and receives Outstanding Teacher Award conferred by the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis.