Resources

Publications

Prof. Mark Horowitz Google Scholar page to see a full list of publications.

VLSI Wiki

Click here to read and contribute to the shared group wiki.
You will need to log in with your Stanford ID to participate.

Past projects by topic

Build chips:

• Agile Hardware Project (AHA)
• Open-Source Synthesizable Analog Blocks for High-Speed Link Designs: 20-GS/s 5b ENOB Analog-to-Digital Converter and 5-GHz Phase Interpolator. 
  Sung-Jin Kim, Zachary Myers, Steven Herbst, ByongChan Lim, Mark Horowitz, 2020 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 1-2.

Capture images:

• Programming heterogeneous systems from an image processing DSL.
  Jing Pu, Steven Bell, Xuan Yang, Jeff Setter, Stephen Richardson, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Mark Horowitz. ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO) 14 (3), 1-25. 2017.
• Frankencamera 4: A Heterogeneous Platform for Computational Photograph

Explore efficient frontiers:

• Half Page DRAM and Charge Recycling Refresh
• Understanding sources of inefficiency in general-purpose chips. 
  Rehan Hameed, Wajahat Qadeer, Megan Wachs, Omid Azizi, Alex Solomatnikov, Benjamin C Lee, Stephen Richardson, Christos Kozyrakis, Mark Horowitz. Proceedings of the 37th annual international symposium on Computer architecture. 2010.
• Why design must change: Rethinking digital design. 
  Ofer Shacham, Omid Azizi, Megan Wachs, W Qadeer, Z Asgar, K Kelley, J Stevenson, A Solomatnikov, A Firoozshahian, B Lee, S Richardson, M Horowitz. IEEE Micro 30 (6), 9-24. 2010.
• Energy-performance tradeoffs in processor architecture and circuit design: a marginal cost analysis. 
  Omid Azizi, Aqeel Mahesri, Benjamin C Lee, Sanjay J Patel, Mark Horowitz. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News 38 (3), 26-36. 2010.

Study brains and intelligence, both animal and artificial:

Animal brains:

• Anatomically defined and functionally distinct dorsal raphe serotonin sub-systems. 
  Jing Ren, Drew Friedmann, Jing Xiong, Cindy D Liu, Brielle R Ferguson, Tanya Weerakkody, Katherine E DeLoach, Chen Ran, Albert Pun, Yanwen Sun, Brandon Weissbourd, Rachael L Neve, John Huguenard, Mark A Horowitz, Liqun Luo. Cell 175 (2), 472-487. e20. 2018.
• Mapping mouse brain slice sequence to a reference brain without 3D Reconstruction.
  Jing Xiong, Jing Ren, Liqun Luo, Mark Horowitz. bioRxiv, 357475. 2018.
• Mapping histological slice sequences to the Allen mouse brain atlas without 3D reconstruction. 
  Jing Xiong, Jing Ren, Liqun Luo, Mark Horowitz. Frontiers in neuroinformatics 12, 93. 2018. 
• Dynamic structure of locomotor behavior in walking fruit flies.
  Alexander Y Katsov, Limor Freifeld, Mark Horowitz, Seppe Kuehn, Thomas R Clandinin. Elife 6, e26410. 2017.
• GABAergic lateral interactions tune the early stages of visual processing in Drosophila. 
  Limor Freifeld, Damon A Clark, Mark J Schnitzer, Mark A Horowitz, Thomas R Clandinin. Neuron 78 (6), 1075-1089. 2013.
• Defining the computational structure of the motion detector in Drosophila. 
  Damon A Clark, Limor Bursztyn, Mark A Horowitz, Mark J Schnitzer, Thomas R Clandinin. Neuron 70 (6), 1165-1177. 2011.
• Keck grant funds brain-imaging effort

Artificial brains:

• EIE: efficient inference engine on compressed deep neural network. 
  Song Han, Xingyu Liu, Huizi Mao, Jing Pu, Ardavan Pedram, Mark A Horowitz, William J Dally. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News 44 (3), 243-254. 2016.
• CNN Blocking