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Mehdi Kamal

Associate Professor

Update: 2024-12-04

Mehdi Kamal

College of Engineering / Electrical and Computer ENG

Journal Paper

  1. "An Adaptive Memory-Side Encryption Method for Improving Security and Lifetime of PCM-Based Main Memory"
    Morteza Soltani banavandi, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, Vol. 41, No 6, pp.1744-1756, 2022
  2. "Distributing DNN training over IoT edge devices based on transfer learning"
    Ehsan Tanghatari, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    NEUROCOMPUTING, Vol. 457, No 1, pp.56-65, 2022
  3. "Circuit-Level Techniques for Logic and Memory Blocks in Approximate Computing Systems"
    صبا امان الهی , Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram, Saba Amanollahi baharvand
    PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, Vol. 108, No 12, pp.2150-2177, 2021
  4. "Reliability Enhancement of Inverter-Based Memristor Crossbar Neural Networks Using Mathematical Analysis of Circuit Non-Idealities"
    Shaghayegh Vahdat, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I-REGULAR PAPERS, Vol. 68, No 10, pp.4310-4323, 2021
  5. "LATIM: Loading-Aware Offline Training Method for Inverter-Based Memristive Neural Networks"
    Shaghayegh Vahdat, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS II-EXPRESS BRIEFS, Vol. 68, No 10, pp.3346-3350, 2021
  6. "CD-DFT: A Current-Difference Design-for-Testability to Detect Short Defects of STT-MRAM Under Process Variations"
    Shiva Taghipour, Mehdi Kamal, راهبه نیارکی, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEVICE AND MATERIALS RELIABILITY, Vol. 21, No 3, 2021
  7. "Loading-Aware Reliability Improvement of Ultra-Low Power Memristive Neural Networks"
    Shaghayegh Vahdat, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I-REGULAR PAPERS, Vol. 68, No 8, pp.3411-3421, 2021
  8. "An Energy-Efficient Inference Method in Convolutional Neural Networks Based on Dynamic Adjustment of the Pruning Level"
    Mohammadali Maleki, Ali Reza Nabipour Meybodi, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    ACM TRANSACTIONS ON DESIGN AUTOMATION OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS, Vol. 26, No 6, 2021
  9. "OPTIMA: An Approach for Online Management of Cache Approximation Levels in Approximate Processing Systems"
    Roohollah Yarmand, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Pouria Esmaeli, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS, Vol. 29, No 2, 2021
  10. "Offline Training Improvement of Inverter-Based Memristive Neural Networks Using Inverter Voltage Characteristic Smoothing"
    Shaghayegh Vahdat, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS II-EXPRESS BRIEFS, Vol. 67, No 12, pp.3442-3446, 2020
  11. "X-CGRA: An Energy-Efficient Approximate Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture"
    Omid Akbari, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram, Muhammad Shafique
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, Vol. 39, No 10, pp.2558-2571, 2020
  12. "O4-DNN: A Hybrid DSP-LUT-Based Processing Unit With Operation Packing and Out-of-Order Execution for Efficient Realization of Convolutional Neural Networks on FPGA Devices"
    POUYA HAGHI, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I-REGULAR PAPERS, Vol. 67, No 9, pp.3056-3069, 2020
  13. "Self-Adjusting Monitor for Measuring Aging Rate and Advancement"
    Somayeh Sadeghi Kohan, Mehdi Kamal, Zainalabedin Navabi Shirazi
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EMERGING TOPICS IN COMPUTING, Vol. 8, No 3, 2020
  14. "INTERSTICE: Inverter-Based Memristive Neural Networks Discretization for Function Approximation Applications"
    Shaghayegh Vahdat, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS, Vol. 28, No 7, pp.1578-1588, 2020
  15. "Design Exploration of Energy-Efficient Accuracy- Configurable Dadda Multipliers With Improved Lifetime Based on Voltage Overscaling"
    Hassan Afzali-Kusha, Marzieh Vaeztourshizi, Mehdi Kamal, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS, Vol. 28, No 5, pp.1207-1220, 2020
  16. "POLAR: A Pipelined/Overlapped FPGA-Based LSTM Accelerator"
    Erfan Bank Tavakoli, Seyed Abolfazl Ghasemzadeh, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS, Vol. 28, No 3, pp.838-842, 2020
  17. "Res-DNN: A Residue Number System-Based DNN Accelerator Unit"
    Nasim Samimi, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I-REGULAR PAPERS, Vol. 67, No 2, pp.658-671, 2020
  18. "RandShift: An Energy-Efficient Fault-Tolerant Method in Secure Nonvolatile Main Memory"
    Morteza Soltani, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS, Vol. 28, No 1, pp.287-291, 2020
  19. "Block-Based Carry Speculative Approximate Adder for Energy-Efficient Applications"
    Farhad Ebrahimi-Azandaryani, Omid Akbari, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS II-EXPRESS BRIEFS, Vol. 67, No 1, pp.137-141, 2020
  20. "DART: A Framework for Determining Approximation Levels in an Approximable Memory Hierarchy"
    Roohollah Yarmand, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS, Vol. 28, No 1, pp.273-286, 2020
  21. "OCTAN: An On-Chip Training Algorithm for Memristive Neuromorphic Circuits"
    Mohammad Ensari, Arash Fayyazi, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I-REGULAR PAPERS, Vol. 66, No 12, pp.4687-4698, 2019
  22. "ACHILLES: Accuracy-Aware High-Level Synthesis Considering Online Quality Management"
    Shayan Tabatabaei-Nikkhah, Mahdi Zahedi, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, Vol. 38, No 8, 2019
  23. "TOSAM: An Energy-Efficient Truncation- and Rounding-Based Scalable Approximate Multiplier"
    Shaghayegh Vahdat, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS, Vol. 27, No 5, 2019
  24. "A Theoretical Framework for Quality Estimation and Optimization of DSP Applications Using Low-Power Approximate Adders"
    Masoud Pashaeefar, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I-REGULAR PAPERS, Vol. 66, No 1, pp.327-340, 2019
  25. "Toward Approximate Computing for Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures"
    Omid Akbari, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram, Muhammad Shafique
    IEEE Micro, Vol. 38, No 6, pp.63-72, 2018
  26. "RAP-CLA: A Reconfigurable Approximate Carry Look-Ahead Adder"
    Omid Akbari, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS II-EXPRESS BRIEFS, Vol. 65, No 8, pp.1089-1093, 2018
  27. "PHAX: Physical Characteristics Aware Ex-Situ Training Framework for Inverter-Based Memristive Neuromorphic Circuits"
    Mohammad Ansari, Arash Fayyazi, Ali Banagozar, Mohammad Ali Maleki, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, Vol. 37, No 8, pp.1602-1613, 2018
  28. "TheSPoT: Thermal Stress-Aware Power and Temperature Management for Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip"
    Armin Iranfar, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram, David Atienza
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, Vol. 37, No 8, pp.1532-1545, 2018
  29. "Approximate Reverse Carry Propagate Adder for Energy-Efficient DSP Applications"
    Masoud Pashaeefar, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS, Vol. 1, No 1, pp.1-12, 2018
  30. "Energy and Reliability Improvement of Voltage-Based, Clustered, Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Architectures by Employing Quality-Aware Mapping"
    حسن افضلی کوشا , Omid Akbari, Mehdi Kamal, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, Vol. 8, No 3, pp.480-493, 2018
  31. "An Ultra Low-Power Memristive Neuromorphic Circuit for Internet of Things Smart Sensors"
    Arash Fayyazi, Mohammad Ansari, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 5, No 2, pp.1011-1022, 2018
  32. "Lifetime improvement by exploiting aggressive voltage scaling during runtime of error-resilient applications"
    Farzaneh Nakhaee, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram, Seyed Mahdi Fakhrai, Hamed Dorosti
    INTEGRATION-THE VLSI JOURNAL, Vol. 61, No 1, pp.29-38, 2018
  33. "An Efficient False Path-Aware Heuristic Critical Path Selection Method with High Coverage of the Process Variation Space"
    Sheis Abolmaali, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    ACM TRANSACTIONS ON DESIGN AUTOMATION OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS, Vol. 23, No 3, pp.1-25, 2018
  34. "LETAM: A low energy truncation-based approximate multiplier"
    Shaghayegh Vahdat, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    COMPUTERS & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, Vol. 63, No 1, pp.1-17, 2017
  35. "Efficient Critical Path Identification Based on Viability Analysis Method Considering Process Variations"
    Sheis Abolmaali, Nika Mansouri-ghiasi, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS, Vol. 25, No 9, pp.2668-2672, 2017
  36. "An energy and area efficient yet high-speed square-root carry select adder structure"
    Milad Bahadori, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    COMPUTERS & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, Vol. 58, No 1, pp.101-112, 2017
  37. "Hybrid TFET-MOSFET circuit: A solution to design soft-error resilient ultra-low power digital circuit"
    Maedeh Hemmat, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    INTEGRATION-THE VLSI JOURNAL, Vol. 57, No 1, pp.11-19, 2017
  38. "CL-CPA: A hybrid carry-lookahead/carry-propagate adder for low-power or high-performance operation mode"
    Milad Bahadori, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Yasmin Afsharnezhad, Elham Zahraie Salehi
    INTEGRATION-THE VLSI JOURNAL, Vol. 57, No 1, pp.62-68, 2017
  39. "RoBA Multiplier: A Rounding-Based Approximate Multiplier for High-Speed yet Energy-Efficient Digital Signal Processing"
    Reza Zendegani, Mehdi Kamal, Milad Bahadori, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS, Vol. 1, No 1, pp.1-9, 2017
  40. "Dual-Quality 4:2 Compressors for Utilizing in Dynamic Accuracy Configurable Multipliers"
    Omid Akbari, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS, Vol. 25, No 4, pp.1352-1361, 2017
  41. "Study on the impact of device parameter variations on performance of III-V homojunction and heterojunction tunnel FETs"
    Maedeh Hemmat, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    SOLID-STATE ELECTRONICS, Vol. 124, No 1, pp.46-53, 2016
  42. "All-Region Statistical Model for Delay Variation Based on Log-Skew-Normal Distribution"
    Hadi Ahmadi Balefi, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, مسعود پدرام
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, Vol. 35, No 9, pp.1503-1508, 2016
  43. "A comparative study on performance and reliability of 32-bit binary adders"
    Milad Bahadori, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, مسعود پدرام
    INTEGRATION-THE VLSI JOURNAL, Vol. 53, No 1, pp.54-67, 2016
  44. "High-Speed and Energy-Efficient Carry Skip Adder Operating Under a Wide Range of Supply Voltage Levels"
    Milad Bahadori, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, مسعود پدرام
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS, Vol. 1, No 1, pp.1-1, 2016
  45. "An efficient temperature dependent hot carrier injection reliability simulation flow"
    Mehdi Kamal, Qing Xie, مسعود پدرام , Ali Afzali Kousha, Saeed Safari
    MICROELECTRONICS RELIABILITY, Vol. 57, No 2, pp.10-19, 2016
  46. "Yield and Speedup Improvements in Extensible Processors by Allocating Extra Cycles to Some Custom Instructions"
    Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Saeed Safari, مسعود پدرام
    ACM TRANSACTIONS ON DESIGN AUTOMATION OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS, Vol. 21, No 2, pp.1-25, 2016
  47. "OPLE: A Heuristic Custom Instruction Selection Algorithm Based on Partitioning and Local Exploration of Application Dataflow Graphs"
    Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Saeed Safari, مسعود پدرام
    ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Vol. 14, No 4, pp.1-23, 2015
  48. "Workload and temperature dependent evaluation of BTI-induced lifetime degradation in digital circuits"
    Behzad Eghbalkhah, Mehdi Kamal, Hassan Afzali-kusha, Ali Afzali Kousha, Mohammad Bagher Ghaznavi-ghoushchi, مسعود پدرام
    MICROELECTRONICS RELIABILITY, Vol. 55, No 8, pp.1152-1162, 2015
  49. "CSAM: A clock skew-aware aging mitigation technique"
    Behzad Eghbalkhah, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Mohammad Bagher Ghaznavi-ghoushchi, مسعود پدرام
    MICROELECTRONICS RELIABILITY, Vol. 55, No 1, pp.282-290, 2015
  50. "An efficient network on-chip architecture based on isolating local and non-local communications"
    Vahideh Akhlaghi, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, مسعود پدرام
    COMPUTERS & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, Vol. 1, No 1, 2014

Conference Paper

  1. "EGAN: A Framework for Exploring the Accuracy vs. Energy Efficiency Trade-off in Hardware Implementation of Error Resilient Applications"
    Marzieh Vaeztourshizi, Mehdi Kamal, Massoud Pedram
    Int'l Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, 2020
  2. "Low-power Accuracy-configurable Carry Look-ahead Adder Based on Voltage Overscaling Technique"
    Hassan Afzali-Kusha, Mehdi Kamal, Massoud Pedram
    Int'l Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, 2020
  3. "An Energy-Efficient, Yet Highly-Accurate, Approximate Non-Iterative Divider"
    Marzieh Vaeztourshizi, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, 2018
  4. "Energy Consumption and Lifetime Improvement of Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures Targeting Low-Power Error-Tolerant Applications"
    حسن افضلی کوشا , Omid Akbari, Mehdi Kamal, Massoud Pedram
    Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 2018
  5. "PX-CGRA: Polymorphic approximate coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture"
    Omid Akbari, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram, Muhammad Shafique
    Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2018
  6. "Robust Neuromorphic Computing in the Presence of Process Variation"
    Ali Banagozar, Mohammad Ali Maleki, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2017
  7. "Power and Energy Reduction of Racetrack-based Caches by Exploiting Shared Shift Operations"
    Seyyed Saber Nabavi Larimi, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), 2016
  8. "Hybrid TFET-MOSFET Circuits: An Approach to Design Reliable Ultra-Low Power Circuits in the presence of Process Variation"
    Maedeh Hemmat, Mehdi Kamal, Ali Afzali Kousha, Massoud Pedram
    IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), 2016