Publications of Weikang Qian

Publications while at UMN. (All materials are subject to copyrights.)

Book Chapters

title: Synthesizing Combinational Logic to Generate Probabilities: Theories and Algorithms authors: Weikang Qian, Marc Riedel, Kia Bazargan, and David Lilja appeared in: Advanced Techniques in Logic Synthesis, Optimizations and Applications Sunil Khatri and Kanupriya Gulati editors, Springer Publishing, 2011.

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Journal Articles

title: Synthesizing Cubes to Satisfy a Given Intersection Pattern authors: Weikang Qian, Marc Riedel, and Ivo Rosenberg submitted to: Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2011.

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title: Synthesizing Logical Computation on Stochastic Bit Streams authors: Weikang Qian and Marc Riedel submitted to: Proceedings of the IEEE, 2011.

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title: Transforming Probabilities with Combinational Logic authors: Weikang Qian, Marc Riedel, Hongchao Zhou, and Jehoshua Bruck will appear in: IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits & Systems, 2011.

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title: An Architecture for Fault-Tolerant Computation with Stochastic Logic authors: Weikang Qian, Xin Li, Marc Riedel, Kia Bazargan, and David Lilja appeared in: IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 93-105, 2011.

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title: Uniform Approximation and Bernstein Polynomials with Coefficients in the Unit Interval authors: Weikang Qian, Marc Riedel, and Ivo Rosenberg appeared in: European Journal of Combinatorics, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 448-463, 2011.

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title: The Synthesis of Stochastic Circuits for Nanoscale Computation authors: Weikang Qian, John Backes, and Marc Riedel appeared in: International Journal of Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 39-57, 2010.

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Conference Papers

title: Two-Level Logic Synthesis for Probabilistic Computation authors: Weikang Qian and Marc Riedel presented at: International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis, Irvine, CA, 2010

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Poster

title: Synthesizing Cubes to Satisfy a Given Intersection Pattern authors: Weikang Qian and Marc Riedel presented at: International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis, Irvine, CA, 2010

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Slides

title: The Synthesis of Combinational Logic to Generate Probabilities authors: Weikang Qian, Marc Riedel, Kia Bazargan, and David Lilja presented at: International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, San Jose, 2009 nominated for IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award

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title: A Reconfigurable Stochastic Architecture for Highly Reliable Computing authors: Xin Li, Weikang Qian, Marc Riedel, Kia Bazargan, and David Lilja presented at: Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, Boston, MA, 2009

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title: The Synthesis of Robust Polynomial Arithmetic with Stochastic Logic authors: Weikang Qian and Marc Riedel presented at: Design Automation Conference, Anaheim, CA, 2008 (Nominated as a Research Highlight, Communications of the ACM).

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title: The Synthesis of Stochastic Logic to Perform Multivariate Polynomial Arithmetic authors: Weikang Qian and Marc Riedel presented at: International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis, Lake Tahoe, CA, 2008

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Poster

title: The Synthesis of Stochastic Circuits for Nanoscale Computation authors: Weikang Qian, John Backes, and Marc Riedel presented at: International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis, San Diego, CA, 2007.

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Dissertation

title: Digital Yet Deliberately Random: Synthesizing Logical Computation on.Stochastic Bit Streams author: Weikang Qian dissertation: Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2011.

PhD Dissertation

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