7 papers
Democratizing Electronic-Photonic AI Systems: An Open-Source AI-Infused Cross-Layer Co-Design and Design Automation Toolflow
Hongjian Zhou, Ziang Yin, Jiaqi Gu
Photonics is becoming a cornerstone technology for high-performance AI systems and scientific computing, offering unparalleled speed, parallelism, and energy efficiency. Despite th…
Toward Large-Scale Photonics-Empowered AI Systems: From Physical Design Automation to System-Algorithm Co-Exploration
Ziang Yin, Hongjian Zhou, Nicholas Gangi +4
In this work, we identify three considerations that are essential for realizing practical photonic AI systems at scale: (1) dynamic tensor operation support for modern models rathe…
Photonics-Aware Planning-Guided Automated Electrical Routing for Large-Scale Active Photonic Integrated Circuits
Hongjian Zhou, Haoyu Yang, Nicholas Gangi +6
The rising demand for AI training and inference, as well as scientific computing, combined with stringent latency and energy budgets, is driving the adoption of integrated photonic…
Toward Intelligent Electronic-Photonic Design Automation for Large-Scale Photonic Integrated Circuits: from Device Inverse Design to Physical Layout Generation
Hongjian Zhou, Pingchuan Ma, Jiaqi Gu
Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) offer tremendous advantages in bandwidth, parallelism, and energy efficiency, making them essential for emerging applications in artificial inte…
SparseC-AFM: a deep learning method for fast and accurate characterization of MoS with C-AFM
Levi Harris, Md Jayed Hossain, Mufan Qiu +6
The increasing use of two-dimensional (2D) materials in nanoelectronics demands robust metrology techniques for electrical characterization, especially for large-scale production.…
Apollo: Automated Routing-Informed Placement for Large-Scale Photonic Integrated Circuits
Hongjian Zhou, Haoyu Yang, Nicholas Gangi +3
As technology advances, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are rapidly scaling in size and complexity, with modern designs integrating thousands of components. However, the analog…