Walker Turner

Walker Turner is a Senior Research Scientist in the Circuits Research Group at NVIDIA, Durham, North Carolina. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida in 2009, 2012, and 2015, respectively. His research interests include low-power integrated circuit design for mixed-signal and high-speed signaling applications for on- and off-chip communication. Walker is also a Teaching, Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University where he instructs an undergraduate microelectronics engineering course.

Main Field of Interest

Circuits and VLSI Design

Publications

2024

A 0.190-pJ/bit 25.2-Gb/s/wire Inverter-Based AC-Coupled Transceiver for Short-Reach Die-to-Die Interfaces in 5-nm CMOS

Yoshinori Nishi, John W. Poulton, Xi Chen, Sanquan Song, Brian Zimmer, Walker Turner, Stephen Tell, Nikola Nedovic, John Wilson, William Dally, Tom Gray

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) (Volume: 59, Issue: 4, April 2024)

2023

ChipNeMo: Domain-Adapted LLMs for Chip Design

Mingjie Liu, Teo Ene, Robert Kirby, Chris Cheng, Nathaniel Pinckney, Rongjian Liang, Jonah Alben, Himyanshu Anand, Sanmitra Banerjee, Ismet Bayraktaroglu, Bonita Bhaskaran, Bryan Catanzaro, Arjun Chaudhuri, Sharon Clay, Bill Dally, Laura Dang, Parikshit Deshpande, Siddhanth Dhodhi, Sameer Halepete, Eric Hill, Jiashang Hu, Sumit Jain, Brucek Khailany, George Kokai, Kishor Kunal, Xiaowei Li, Charley Lind, Hao Liu, Stuart Oberman, Sujeet Omar, Sreedhar Pratty, Jonathan Raman, Ambar Sarkar, Zhengjiang Shao, Hanfei Sun, Pratik P Suthar, Varun Tej, Walker Turner, Kaizhe Xu, Haoxing (Mark) Ren

A 0.190-pJ/bit 25.2-Gb/s/wire Inverter-Based AC-Coupled Transceiver for Short-Reach Die-to-Die Interfaces in 5-nm CMOS

Yoshinori Nishi, John W. Poulton, Xi Chen, Sanquan Song, Brian Zimmer, Walker Turner, Stephen Tell, Nikola Nedovic, John Wilson, William Dally, Tom Gray

2023 IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON VLSI TECHNOLOGY & CIRCUITS

A 0.297-pJ/Bit 50.4-Gb/s/Wire Inverter-Based Short-Reach Simultaneous Bi-Directional Transceiver for Die-to-Die Interface in 5-nm CMOS

Yoshinori Nishi, John W. Poulton, Walker Turner, Xi Chen, Sanquan Song, Brian Zimmer, Stephen Tell, Nikola Nedovic, John Wilson, William Dally, Tom Gray

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits ( Volume: 58, Issue: 4, April 2023)

Reinforcement Learning Guided Detailed Routing for Custom Circuits

Hao Chen, Kai-Chieh Hsu, Walker Turner, Po-Hsuan Wei, Keren Zhu, David Z. Pan, Haoxing (Mark) Ren

International Symposium on Physical Design 2023