Conferences

SMAUG: End-to-End Full-Stack Simulation Infrastructure for Deep Learning Workloads
Sam (Likun) Xi and Yuan Yao, Kshitij Bhardwaj, Paul Whatmough, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks. Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, November 2020, Vol 17, No. 4. [PDF]

A Modular Digital VLSI Flow for High-Productivity SoC Design
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
Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2018. [PDF]

Mallacc: Accelerating memory allocation
Svilen Kanev, Sam (Likun) Xi, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks.
Proc. Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), April 2017.
Best Paper Candidate. [PDF]

Co-Designing Accelerators and SoC Interfaces Using gem5-Aladdin
Yakun Sophia Shao, Sam Likun Xi, Viji Srinivasan, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks.
Proc. International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2016. [PDF]

Self-Assembled Resonance Energy Transfer Keys for Secure Communication over Classical Channels.
Vishwa Nellore, Sam Xi, and Chris Dwyer.
ACS Nano, 2015, 9 (12), pp 11840-11848.

Beyond the Wall: Near-Data Processing for Databases.
Sam (Likun) Xi, Oreoluwa Babarinsa, Manos Athanassoulis, and Stratos Idreos.
SIGMOD Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware, June 2015. [PDF] [Slides]

Quantifying Sources of Error in McPAT and Potential Impacts on Architectural Studies.
Sam (Likun) Xi, Hans Jacobson, Pradip Bose, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks.
Proc. International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2015.
[PDF] [Slides] [McPAT model]

Towards Cache-Friendly Hardware Accelerators.
Yakun (Sophia) Shao, Sam Xi, Viji Srinivasan, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks.
In Sensors and Cloud Architectures Workshop (HPCA), February 2015. [PDF]

Understanding the critical path in power state transition latencies.
Sam (Likun) Xi, Marisabel Guevara, Jared Nelson, Patrick Pensabene, and Benjamin C. Lee.
Proc. International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), September 2013. [PDF]

Theses

Resonance Energy Transfer Based Physical Unclonable Function.
Sam Xi and Christopher Dwyer.
(Senior undergraduate thesis). Duke University Pratt School of Engineering, 2013. [PDF]