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most citedNeSe: Near-Sensor Event-Driven Scheme for Low Power Energy Harvesting Sensors

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cs.AR2025

Opto-ViT: Architecting a Near-Sensor Region of Interest-Aware Vision Transformer Accelerator with Silicon Photonics

Mehrdad Morsali, Chengwei Zhou, Deniz Najafi +7

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a powerful architecture for computer vision tasks due to their ability to model long-range dependencies and global contextual relationshi…

cs.AR2024

Neuro-Photonix: Enabling Near-Sensor Neuro-Symbolic AI Computing on Silicon Photonics Substrate

Deniz Najafi, Hamza Errahmouni Barkam, Mehrdad Morsali +6

Neuro-symbolic Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, blending neural networks with symbolic AI, have facilitated transparent reasoning and context understanding without the need for…

cs.AR2024

SA-DS: A Dataset for Large Language Model-Driven AI Accelerator Design Generation

Deepak Vungarala, Mahmoud Nazzal, Mehrdad Morsali +4

In the ever-evolving landscape of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) hardware acceleration, unlocking the true potential of systolic array accelerators has long been hindered by the daunti…

cs.AR2024

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

Mehrdad Morsali, Brendan Reidy, Deniz Najafi +6

This paper proposes a high-performance and energy-efficient optical near-sensor accelerator for vision applications, called Lightator. Harnessing the promising efficiency offered b…

cs.AR2023

Enabling Normally-off In-Situ Computing with a Magneto-Electric FET-based SRAM Design

Deniz Najafi, Mehrdad Morsali, Ranyang Zhou +4

As an emerging post-CMOS Field Effect Transistor, Magneto-Electric FETs (MEFETs) offer compelling design characteristics for logic and memory applications, such as high-speed switc…

cs.AR2023

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

Mehrdad Morsali, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Deniz Najafi +4

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 ca…

cs.AR2023

IMA-GNN: In-Memory Acceleration of Centralized and Decentralized Graph Neural Networks at the Edge

Mehrdad Morsali, Mahmoud Nazzal, Abdallah Khreishah +1

In this paper, we propose IMA-GNN as an In-Memory Accelerator for centralized and decentralized Graph Neural Network inference, explore its potential in both settings and provide a…

eess.SP2023★ 1 cited

NeSe: Near-Sensor Event-Driven Scheme for Low Power Energy Harvesting Sensors

Sepehr Tabrizchi, Mehrdad Morsali, Shaahin Angizi +1

Digital technologies have made it possible to deploy visual sensor nodes capable of detecting motion events in the coverage area cost-effectively. However, background subtraction,…

cs.AR2022

A Near-Sensor Processing Accelerator for Approximate Local Binary Pattern Networks

Shaahin Angizi, Mehrdad Morsali, Sepehr Tabrizchi +1

In this work, a high-speed and energy-efficient comparator-based Near-Sensor Local Binary Pattern accelerator architecture (NS-LBP) is proposed to execute a novel local binary patt…