Publication
Publication
Peer-Reviewed Journals
J11. [TCAD '2025] Systematic Methodology of Modeling and Design Space Exploration for CMOS Image Sensors
Tianrui Ma, Zhe Gao, Zhe Chen, Ramakrishna Kakarala, Charles Shan, Weidong Cao, Xuan Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 627-640, 2024.
J10. [TCAD '2024] RoSE-Opt: Robust and Efficient Analog Circuit Parameter Optimization with Knowledge-infused Reinforcement Learning
Weidong Cao, Jian Gao, Tianrui Ma, Rui Ma, Mouchacine Benosman, Xuan Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 627-640, 2024.
J9. [ACM TODAES '2024] Estimating Power, Performance, and Area for On-Sensor Deployment of AR/VR Workloads Using an Analytical Framework
Xiaoyu Sun, Xiaochen Peng, Sai Qian Zhang, Jorge Gomez, Win-San Khwa, Syed Shakib Sarwar, Ziyun Li, Weidong Cao, Zhao Wang, Chiao Liu, Meng-Fan Chang, Barbara De Salvo, Kerem Akarvardar, H.-S. Philip Wong
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 1-27, 2024.
News: [Editorial Highlight].
J8. [TCAD '2023] Efficient Processing of MLPerf Mobile Workloads Using Digital Compute-In-Memory Macros
Xiaoyu Sun, Weidong Cao, Brian Crafton, Kerem Akarvardar, Haruki Mori, Hidehiro Fujiwara, Hiroki Noguchi, Yu-Der Chih, Meng-Fan Chang, Yih Wang, Tsung-Yung Jonathan Chang
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 1191-1205, 2024.
J7. [Nature Scientific Reports '2022] Fully integrated topological electronics
Yuqi Liu, Weidong Cao*, Weijian Chen, Hua Wang, Lan Yang, Xuan Zhang*
Scientific Reports volume 12, Article number: 17010 (2022). Equal contribution and correspondence.
News: [MIT Technology Review] (Chinese).
J6. [Nature Nanotechnology '2022] Fully integrated parity–time-symmetric electronics
Weidong Cao, Changqing Wang, Weijian Chen, Song Hu, Hua Wang, Lan Yang, Xuan Zhang
Nature Nanotechnology 17, 262–268 (2022), [pdf], [pdf_arXiv].
News: [Phys.org], [Mirage News], [True Viral News], [Bioengineer.org], [ScienMag], [Newswise], [Nanowerk], [MIT Technology Review] (Chinese).
J5. [TC '2021] Neural-PIM: Efficient Processing-In-Memory with Neural Approximation of Peripherals
Weidong Cao, Yilong Zhao, Adith Boloor, Yinhe Han, Xuan Zhang, Li Jiang
IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 71, no. 9, pp. 2142-2155, 2022, [pdf].
News: [WashU News], [ScienceDaily], [Tech Xplore], [ScienMag].
J4. [TCAD '2021] Evaluating Neural Network-Inspired Analog-to-Digital Conversion With Low-Precision RRAM
Weidong Cao, Liu Ke, Ayan Chakrabarti, Xuan Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 808-821, 2021, [pdf].
J3. [TCAD '2020] NeuADC: Neural Network-Inspired Synthesizable Analog-to-Digital Conversion
Weidong Cao, Xin He, Ayan Chakrabarti, Xuan Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 1841-1854, 2020, [pdf].
J2. [Microelectronics journal '2018] A power scalable 2–10 Gb/s PI-based clock data recovery for multilane applications
Fangxu Lv, Xuqiang Zheng, Feng Zhao, Jianye Wang, Shigang Yue, Ziqiang Wang, Weidong Cao, Yajun He, Chun Zhang, Hanjun Jiang, Zhihua Wang
Microelectron. J. 82 (2018) 36–45, [pdf].
J1. [Microelectronics '2015] Design and implementation of a 20GHz VCO
Weidong Cao, Chenlong Hou, Jinxing Guo, Yilin Song, Ziqiang Wang, Hanjun Jiang, Zhihua Wang
Microelectronics, 2015, 5, 577-580.
Peer-Reviewed Conferences
C28. [ISLPED '2025] LoRASensE: Learnable Low-Rank Acquisition in Sensors for Efficient Edge Machine Vision
Yiwen Liang, Zhiqiang Yi, Tianrui Ma, and Weidong Cao
Accepted as a regular paper, ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, 2025.
Acceptance rate: 24%.
C27. [ISLPED '2025] Unicorn-CIM: Uncovering the Vulnerability and Improving the Resilience of High-Precision Compute-in-Memory
Qiufeng Li, Yiwen Liang, and Weidong Cao
Accepted as a regular paper, ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, 2025.
Acceptance rate: 24%.
C26. [ICML '2025] AnalogGenie-Lite: Enhancing Scalability and Precision in Circuit Topology Discovery through Lightweight Graph Modeling
Jian Gao, Weidong Cao, and Xuan Zhang
Accepted, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.
Acceptance rate: 26.9%.
C25. [DAC '2025] Late Breaking Results: Less Sense Makes More Sense: In-Sensor Compressive Learning for Efficient Machine Vision
Yiwen Liang, Weidong Cao
Accepted, IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
Acceptance rate: 22.4%.
C24. [DAC '2025] Late Breaking Results: Opera: An Open and Efficient Platform for Data-driven Synthesis of Analog Circuits
Shikai Wang, Yaolong Hu, Zhiqiang Yi, Taiyun Chi, Weidong Cao
Accepted, IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
Acceptance rate: 22.4%.
C23. [DAC '2025] EVA: An Efficient and Versatile Generative Engine for Targeted Discovery of Novel Analog Circuits
Jian Gao, Weimin Fu, Xiaolong Guo, Weidong Cao, and Xuan Zhang
Accepted, IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
Acceptance rate: 22.4%.
C22. [DAC '2025] AdreamDCO: AI-Driven Robust and Efficient Design Automation for Digitally Controlled Oscillators
Yaolong Hu, Hao Guo, ShikaiWang, Jiaqi Liu, Weidong Cao, and Taiyun Chi
Accepted, IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
Acceptance rate: 22.4%.
C21. [ICLR '2025] AnalogGenie: A Generative Engine for Automatic Discovery of Analog Circuit Topologies
Jian Gao, Weidong Cao, Junyi Yang, and Xuan Zhang
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.
Spotlight: < 5.1%.
C20. [ISCAS '2025] QC-CNN: Highly Quantized Compressive CNN for Efficient Ventricular Arrhythmia Detection in Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators
Zining Wang, Jian Gao, Weidong Cao, Zhenge Jia, Yiyu Shi, and Xuan Zhang
Accepted, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2025.
C19. [ISCAS '2025] A Hybrid-Domain Floating-Point Compute-in-Memory Architecture for Efficient Acceleration of High-Precision Deep Neural Networks
Zhiqiang Yi, Yiwen Liang, and Weidong Cao
Accepted, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2025, poster.
C18. [DAC '2024] Addition is Most You Need: Efficient Floating-Point SRAM Compute-in-Memory by Harnessing Mantissa Addition
Weidong Cao, Jian Gao, Xin Xin, and Xuan Zhang
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2024.
Acceptance rate: 22%.
C17. [DAC '2023] RoSE: Robust Analog Circuit Parameter Optimization with Sampling-Efficient Reinforcement Learning
Jian Gao, Weidong Cao*, Xuan Zhang*
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2023. Equal contribution and correspondence.
Acceptance rate: 23%.
C16. [ISCA '2023] LeCA: In-Sensor Learned Compressive Acquisition for Efficient Machine Vision on the Edge
Tianrui Ma, Adith Jagadish Boloor, Xiangxing Yang, Weidong Cao, Patric Williams, Nan Sun, Ayan Chakrabarti, Xuan Zhang
International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2023.
Acceptance rate: 21.2%.
C15. [ICCAD '2022] PDNSig: Identifying Multi-Tenant Cloud FPGAs with Power Distribution Network-Based Signatures
Huifeng Zhu, Weidong Cao, and Xuan Zhang
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2022.
Acceptance rate: 24%.
C14. [ICLR '2023] CktGNN: Circuit Graph Neural Network for Electronic Design Automation
Zehao Dong, Weidong Cao, Muhan Zhang, Dacheng Tao, Yixin Chen, Xuan Zhang
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023. Equal contribution.
Acceptance rate: 31.8%.
C13. [ISCAS '2023] A/D Alleviator: Reducing Analog-to-Digital Conversions in Compute-In-Memory with Augmented Analog Accumulation
Weidong Cao, Xuan Zhang
Accepted, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2023, oral.
Invited to TCAS-II Special Issue.
C12. [ISCAS '2023] Non-Hermitian Physics-Inspired LC VCOs with Enhanced Frequency Tuning Range and Phase Noise Performance
Weidong Cao, Hua Wang, Xuan Zhang
Accepted, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2023, oral.
Invited to TCAS-II Special Issue.
C11. [ICCAD '2022] PowerTouch: A Security Objective-Guided Automation Framework for Generating Wired Ghost Touch Attack on Touchscreens
Huifeng Zhu, Zhiyuan Yu, Weidong Cao, Ning Zhang, and Xuan Zhang
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2022.
Acceptance rate: 24%.
C10. [ISLPED '2022] HOGEye: Neural Approximation of HOG Feature Extraction in RRAM-Based3D-Stacked Image Sensors
Tianrui Ma, Weidong Cao, Ayan Chakrabarti, Xuan Zhang
ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2022.
Acceptance rate: 28%, Best Paper Awardee.
C9. [DAC '2022] Domain Knowledge-Infused Deep Learning for Automated Analog/RF Circuit Parameter Optimization
Weidong Cao, Mouhacine Benosman, Xuan Zhang, Rui Ma
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2022.
Acceptance rate: 23%, Best Paper Nominee.
C8. [AAAI '2022] Domain Knowledge-based Automated Analog Circuit Design with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Weidong Cao, Mouhacine Benosman, Xuan Zhang, Rui Ma
36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022.
C7. [ICCAD '2019] Neural Network-Inspired Analog-to-Digital Conversion to Achieve Super-Resolution with Low-Precision RRAM Devices
Weidong Cao, Liu Ke, Ayan Chakrabarti, Xuan Zhang
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2019.
Acceptance rate: 23.9%.
C6. [DATE '2019] NeuADC: Neural Network-Inspired RRAM-Based Synthesizable Analog-to-Digital Conversion with Reconfigurable Quantization Support
Weidong Cao, Xin He, Ayan Chakrabarti, Xuan Zhang
IEEE Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2019.
Acceptance rate: 24%, Best Paper Nominee.
C5. [NEWCAS '2016] A 28 Gb/s Transmitter with 3-tap FFE and T-coil Enhanced Terminal in 65 nm CMOS Technology
Naiwen Zhou, Linghan Wu, Ziqiang Wang, Xuqiang Zheng, Weidong Cao, Chun Zhang, Fule Li, Zhihua Wang
IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS), 2016.
C4. [MWSCAS '2015] A 40Gb/s 39mW 3-tap Adaptive Closed-loop Decision Feedback Equalizer in 65nm CMOS
Weidong Cao, Ziqiang Wang, Dongmei Li, Xuqiang Zheng, Fule Li, Chun Zhang, Zhihua Wang
IEEE 58th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), 2015.
C3. [NEWCAS '2015] A 40 Gb/s 27 mW 3-tap Closed-loop Decision Feedback Equalizer in 65 nm CMOS
Weidong Cao, Ziqiang Wang, Dongmei Li, Xuqiang Zheng, Ke Huang, Shuai Yuan, Fule Li, Zhihua Wang
IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS), 2015.
C2. [EDSSC '2015] A 40 Gb/s Adaptive Equalizer with Amplitude Approaching Technique in 65 nm CMOS
Weidong Cao, Ziqiang Wang, Dongmei Li, Fule Li, Zhihua Wang
IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC), 2015.
C1. [EDSSC '2015] A 15 Gb/s Wireline Repeater in 65 nm CMOS Technology
Weidong Cao, Xuqiang Zheng, Ziqiang Wang, Dongmei Li, Fule Li, Shigang Yue, Zhihua Wang
IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC), 2015.