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Yakun Sophia Shao, Jason Clemons, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Brian Zimmer, Matthew Fojtik, Nan Jiang, Ben Keller, Alicia Klinefelter, Nathaniel Pinckney, Priyanka Riana, Stephen G. Tell, Yanqing Zhang, William J. Dally, Joel Emer, C. Thomas Gray, Brucek Khailany, Stephen W. Keckler. Simba: Scaling Deep-Learning Inference with Multi-Chip-Module-Based Architecture. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO ‘52), 2019.

Rangharajan Venkatesan, Yakun Sophia Shao, Brian Zimmer, Jason Clemons, Matt Fojtik, Ted Jiang, Ben Keller, Alicia Klinefelter, Nathaniel Pinckney, Priyanka Raina (Stanford), Stephen Tell, Yanqing Zhang, William Dally, Joel Emer, Tom Gray, Steve 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: A Symposium on High Performance Chips, 2019.

Brian Zimmer, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Yakun Sophia Shao, Jason Clemons, Matthew Fojtik, Nan Jiang, Ben Keller, Alicia Klinefelter, Nathaniel 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. 2019 Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI), 2019.

Matthew Fojtik, Ben Keller, Alicia Klinefelter, Nathaniel 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. 2019 25th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC), 2019.

Brucek Khailany, Evgeni Krimer, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Jason Clemons, Joel S. Emer, Matthew Fojtik, Alicia Klinefelter, Michael Pellauer, Nathaniel 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. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2018.

Brucek Khailany, Evgeni Krimer, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Jason Clemons, Joel S. Emer, Matthew Fojtik, Alicia Klinefelter, Michael Pellauer, Nathaniel 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. Government Microcircuit Applications & Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech), 2018.

Y. Zhang, M. Khayatzadeh, K. Yang, M. Saligane, N. Pinckney, M. Alioto, D. Blaauw, D. Sylvester. iRazor: Current-Based Error Detection and Correction Scheme for PVT Variation in 40-nm ARM Cortex-R4 Processor. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2018.

N. Pinckney, S. Jeloka, R. Dreslinski, T. Mudge, D. Sylvester, D. Blaauw, L. Shifren, B. Cline, S. Sinha. Impact of FinFET on Near-Threshold Voltage Scalability. IEEE Design Test, 2017.

N. Pinckney, D. Sylvester, D. Blaauw. Supply boosting for high-performance processors in flip-chip packages. ESSCIRC Conference 2016: 42nd European Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2016.

N. Pinckney, L. Shifren, B. Cline, S. Sinha, S. Jeloka, R. G. Dreslinski, T. Mudge, D. Sylvester, D. Blaauw. Near-threshold computing in FinFET technologies: Opportunities for improved voltage scalability. 2016 53nd ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2016.

Nathaniel Pinckney, David Money Harris, Nan Jiang, Kyle Kelley, Samuel Antao, Leonel Sousa, David Money Harris, Nan Jiang, Kyle Kelley, Samuel Antao, Leonel Sousa. Public Key Cryptography. Circuits and Systems for Security and Privacy, 2016.

Y. Zhang, M. Khayatzadeh, K. Yang, M. Saligane, N. Pinckney, M. Alioto, D. Blaauw, D. Sylvester. iRazor: 3-transistor current-based error detection and correction in an ARM Cortex-R4 processor. 2016 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2016.

J. Wang, N. Pinckney, D. Blaauw, D. Sylvester. Reconfigurable self-timed regenerators for wide-range voltage scaled interconnect. 2015 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), 2015.

N. Pinckney. Near-Threshold Computing: Past, Present, and Future. University of Michigan, 2015.

S. Bang, J. Seo, I. Lee, S. Jeong, N. Pinckney, D. Blaauw, D. Sylvester, L. Chang. A fully-integrated 40-phase flying-capacitance-dithered switched-capacitor voltage regulator with 6mV output ripple. 2015 Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI Circuits), 2015.

N. Pinckney, D. Blaauw, D. Sylvester. Low-Power Near-Threshold Design: Techniques to Improve Energy Efficiency Energy-efficient near-threshold design has been proposed to increase energy efficiency across a wid. IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, 2015.

B. Giridhar, N. Pinckney, D. Sylvester, D. Blaauw. A reconfigurable sense amplifier with auto-zero calibration and pre-amplification in 28nm CMOS. 2014 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), 2014.

N. Pinckney, R. G. Dreslinski, K. Sewell, D. Fick, T. Mudge, D. Sylvester, D. Blaauw. Limits of Parallelism and Boosting in Dim Silicon. IEEE Micro, 2013.

N. Pinckney, M. Fojtik, B. Giridhar, D. Sylvester, D. Blaauw. Shortstop: An on-chip fast supply boosting technique. 2013 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2013.

G. Kim, M. Barangi, Z. Foo, N. Pinckney, S. Bang, D. Blaauw, D. Sylvester. A 467nW CMOS visual motion sensor with temporal averaging and pixel aggregation. 2013 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers, 2013.

M. Fojtik, D. Fick, Y. Kim, N. Pinckney, D. M. Harris, D. Blaauw, D. Sylvester. Bubble Razor: Eliminating Timing Margins in an ARM Cortex-M3 Processor in 45 nm CMOS Using Architecturally Independent Error Detection and Correction. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2013.

R. G. Dreslinski, T. Manville, K. Sewell, R. Das, N. Pinckney, S. Satpathy, D. Blaauw, D. Sylvester, T. Mudge. XPoint cache: Scaling existing bus-based coherence protocols for 2D and 3D many-core systems. 2012 21st International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), 2012.

R. Dreslinski, K. Sewell, T. Manville, S. Satpathy, N. Pinckney, G. Blake, M. Cieslak, R. Das, T. Wenisch, D. Sylvester, D. Blaauw, T. Mudge. Swizzle Switch: A self-arbitrating high-radix crossbar for NoC systems. 2012 IEEE Hot Chips 24 Symposium (HCS), 2012.

K. Sewell, R. G. Dreslinski, T. Manville, S. Satpathy, N. Pinckney, G. Blake, M. Cieslak, R. Das, T. F. Wenisch, D. Sylvester, D. Blaauw, T. Mudge. Swizzle-Switch Networks for Many-Core Systems. IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, 2012.

Ronald G Dreslinski, Bharan Giridhar, Nathaniel Pinckney, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, Trevor Mudge. Reevaluating fast dual-voltage power rail switching circuitry. 2012 Workshop on Duplicating, Decontructing and Debunking (WDDD), 2012.

N. Liu, S. Hanson, N. Pinckney, D. Sylvester, D. Blaauw. Randomized value generation. United States Patent Office, 2012.

M. Fojtik, D. Fick, Y. Kim, N. Pinckney, D. Harris, D. Blaauw, D. Sylvester. Bubble Razor: An architecture-independent approach to timing-error detection and correction. 2012 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2012.

Nathaniel Pinckney, Korey Sewell, Ronald G. Dreslinski, David Fick, Trevor Mudge, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw. Assessing the Performance Limits of Parallelized Near-threshold Computing. Proceedings of the 49th Annual Design Automation Conference, 2012.

N. Liu, N. Pinckney, S. Hanson, D. Sylvester, D. Blaauw. A true random number generator using time-dependent dielectric breakdown. 2011 Symposium on VLSI Circuits - Digest of Technical Papers, 2011.

Xuezhe Zheng, John E. Cunningham, Guoliang Li, Ying Luo, Hiren Thacker, Jin Yao, Ron Ho, Jon Lexau, Frankie Liu, Dinesh Patil, Philip Amberg, Nathaniel Pinckney, Po Dong, Dazeng Feng, Mehdi Asghari, Attila Mekis, Thierry Pinguet, Kannan Raj, Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy. Ultra-low power silicon photonic transceivers for inter/intra-chip interconnects. 2010.

X. Zheng, J. E. Cunningham, R. Ho, J. Lexau, G. Li, Y. Luo, H. Thacker, J. Yao, F. Liu, D. Patil, P. Amberg, N. Pinckney, P. Dong, D. Feng, M. Asghari, A. Mekis, T. Pinguet, K. Raj, A. V. Krishnamoorthy. Low power silicon photonic transceivers. IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals 2010, 2010.

I. Shubin, A. Chow, J. Cunningham, M. Giere, N. Nettleton, N. Pinckney, J. Shi, J. Simons, R. Hopkins, J. Mitchell, D. Douglas, E. M. Chow, D. DeBruyker, B. Cheng, G. Anderson. A package demonstration with solder free compliant flexible interconnects. 2010 Proceedings 60th Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), 2010.

Howard Chen, Andrew Giles, Nathaniel Pinckney, Sarah Harris, Andrew Danowitz, Samuel Osofsky. Optical Distress Beacon for Space Use. United States Patent Office, 2010.

Xuezhe Zheng, Jon Lexau, Ying Luo, Hiren Thacker, Thierry Pinguet, Attila Mekis, Guoliang Li, Jing Shi, Philip Amberg, Nathaniel Pinckney, Kannan Raj, Ron Ho, John E. Cunningham, Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy. Ultra-low-energy all-CMOS modulator integrated with driver. Opt. Express, 2010.

R. Ho, J. Lexau, F. Liu, D. Patil, R. Hopkins, E. Alon, N. Pinckney, P. Amberg, X. Zheng, J. E. Cunningham, A. V. Krishnamoorthy. Circuits for silicon photonics on a “macrochip”. 2009 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2009.

Xuezhe Zheng, Jon Lexau, Ying luo, Hiren Thacker, Thierry Pinguet, Attila Mekis, Guoliang Li, Jing Shi, Philip Amberg, Nathaniel Pinckney, Kannan Raj, Ron Ho, John E. Cunningham, Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy. An Ultra-Low Power All CMOS Si Photonic Transmitter. Frontiers in Optics 2009/Laser Science XXV/Fall 2009 OSA Optics & Photonics Technical Digest, 2009.

J Schauer, N Pinckney, N Nettleton, D Popovic. A Test Platform for the Thermal, Electrical, and Mechanical Characterization of Packages. Proceedings of the 42nd International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS), 2009.

Nathaniel Pinckney, Philip Amberg, David Money Harris. Parallelized Booth-Encoded Radix-4 Montgomery Multipliers. 16th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), 2008.

P. Amberg, N. Pinckney, D. M. Harris. Parallel high-radix Montgomery multipliers. 2008 42nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2008.

Andrew Danowitz, Nathaniel Pinckney, Michael Braly, Howard Chen, Andrew Giles, Sarah Harris, Samuel Osofsky. Optical Distress Beacon for Space Use. 3rd International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety Conference, 2008.

N. Pinckney, T. Barr, M. Dayringer, M. McKnett, Nan Jiang, C. Nygaard, D. M. Harris, J. Stanley, B. Phillips. A MIPS R2000 implementation. 2008 45th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, 2008.

Nathaniel Pinckney, Philip Amberg, David Money Harris. Parallelized Radix-4 Scalable Montgomery Multipliers. Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2008.

Nathaniel Ross Pinckney, David Money Harris. Parallelized Radix-4 Scalable Montgomery Multipliers. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design, 2007.

Joseph King, Gwen Yoshinaga, Chad Foerster, Elliot Temkin, Nathaniel Pinckney. Impulse Response Pressure Transducer. 13th Internal Congress on Sound and Vibration, 2006.

Nathaniel Pinckney. Pulse-width modulation for microcontroller servo control. IEEE Potentials, 2006.