》 Research Fields
AI Chip, Computing-in-Memory, 2.5D/3D Chiplet.
》 Courses
Digital Integrated Circuit Design
》 Projects
》 Publications
1、Guanchen Tao, Junyi Luo,Shiwei Liu, Anhang Li, Gregory Kielian, Kauna Lei, Qirui Zhang, Dennis Sylvester and Mehdi Saligane, “An 11.16μJ/token Edge SLM Decoder Accelerator with Scalable Ring-based Configuration for Token-level Pipelining in 16nm FinFET,” in IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2026.
2、Hao Jiang, Zexing Chen, Jiajun Lu, Siqi He, Liangjian Lyu, Jiamin Xu, Jianguo Yang,Shiwei Liu, Yingping Chen, Chixiao Chen, Qi Liu, Ming Liu, “A 1024-Ch 583-nW/Ch Spike-Sorting SoC With Sparsity-Aware Spike Detection Scratchpad and Ultra-Low-Leakage Dual-Voltage 5T-SRAM for 16K-Template Clustering,” in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 2026.
3、Shiwei Liu, Jiangnan Yu, Peizhe Li, Feng Lin, Chixiao Chen, “Scalable Sparse Transformer Accelerator with In-Memory Butterfly Zero Skipper and Local Attention Reusable Engine for Semi-Structured-Pruned NN,” in IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, 2026.
4、Shiwei Liu, Zhirui Huang, Jiangnan Yu, Qi Liu, Chixiao Chen, “McPAL: Scaling Unstructured Sparse Inference with Multi-Chiplet HBM-PIM Architecture for LLMs” in ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
5、Shiwei Liu, Guanchen Tao, Yifei Zou, Derek Chow, Zichen Fan, Kauna Lei, Bangfei Pan, Dennis Sylvester, Gregory Kielian, Mehdi Saligane, “Consmax: Hardware-Friendly Alternative Softmax with Learnable Parameters,” in IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2024.
6、Shiwei Liu, Chen Mu, Hao Jiang, Yunzhengmao Wang, Jinshan Zhang, Feng Lin, Keji Zhou, Qi Liu, Chixiao Chen, “Hardsea: Hybrid Analog-ReRAM Clustering and Digital-SRAM In-memory Computing Accelerator for Dynamic Sparse Self-Attention in Transformer,” in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 269-282, 2024.
7、Shiwei Liu, Peizhe Li, Jinshan Zhang, Yunzhengmao Wang, Haozhe Zhu, Wenning Jiang, Shan Tang, Chixiao Chen, Qi Liu, Ming Liu, “A 28nm 53.8TOPS/W 8b Sparse Transformer Accelerator with In-Memory Butterfly Zero Skipper for Unstructured-Pruned NN and CIM-Based Local-Attention-Reusable Engine,” in IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2023.
