Luca Benini

Links

• Personal home page
• IIS Page

Designer for following chips

• Pulp (2013)
• Pulpv2 (2014)
• Diego (2015)
• Honey_bunny (2015)
• Manny (2015)
• Mia_wallace (2015)
• Pulpv3 (2015)
• Sid (2015)

Publications related to the chips in the gallery

• Davide Rossi, Antonio Pullini, Igor Loi, Michael Gautschi, Frank K. Gurkaynak, Andrea Bartolini, Philippe Flatresse, Luca Benini, "A 60 GOPS/W, -1.8 V to 0.9 V body bias ULP cluster in 28 nm UTBB FD-SOI technology", Journal of Solid-State Electronics, Volume 117, March 2016, Pages 170-184, DOI: 10.1016/j.sse.2015.11.015
  
  
• Michael Gautschi, Michael Muehlberghuber, Andreas Traber, Sven Stucki, Matthias Baer, Renzo Andri, Beat Muheim, Luca Benini, Hubert Kaeslin, "SIR10US: A tightly coupled elliptic-curve cryptography co-processor for the OpenRISC", 2014 IEEE 25th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP), 18-20 June 2014, Zurich, pp 25-29, DOI: 10.1109/ASAP.2014.6868626
  
  
• Michael Gautschi, Michael Schaffner, Frank K. Gurkaynak, Luca Benini, "An Extended Shared Logarithmic Unit for Nonlinear Function Kernel Acceleration in a 65-nm CMOS Multicore Cluster", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Volume: 52, Issue: 1, Jan. 2017, pp 98-112, DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2016.2626272
  
  
• Simone Benatti, Filippo Casamassima, Bojan Milosevic, Elisabetta Farella, Philipp Schoenle, Schekeb Fateh, Thomas Burger, Qiuting Huang, Luca Benini, "A Versatile Embedded Platform for EMG Acquisition and Gesture Recognition", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Oct 2015, Vol:9, Issue 5, pp: 620-630, DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2015.2476555
  
  
• Schekeb Fateh, Philipp Schoenle, Luca Bettini, Giovanni Rovere, Luca Benini, Qiuting Huang, "A Reconfigurable 5-to-14 bit SAR ADC for Battery-Powered Medical Instrumentation", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, Nov. 2015, Vol:62, Issue: 11, pp: 2685-2694, DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2015.2477580
  
  
• Marco Crescentini, Marco Biondi, Marco Bennati, Paolo Alberti, Giulia Luciani, Cinzia Tamburini, Matteo Pizotti, Aldo Romani, Marco Tartagni, David Bellasi, Davide Rossi, Luca Benini, Marco Marchesi, Domenicos Cristaudo, "A 2 MS/s 10A Hall current sensor SoC with digital compressive sensing encoder in 0.16 um BCD", Proceedings of the 42nd Eurpoean Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC-2016), pp 393-396, DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2016.7598324
  
  
• Lukas Cavigelli, David Gschwend, Christoph Mayer, Samuel Willi, Beat Muheim, Luca Benini, "Origami: A Convolutional Network Accelerator", IN Proc. of the 25th edition on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI'15) pp 199-204, 2015, DOI: 10.1145/2742060.2743766
  
  
• Davide Rossi, Antonio Pullini, Igor Loi, Michael Gautschi, Frank K. Gurkaynak, Adam Teman, Jeremy Constantin, Andreas Burg, Ivan Miro-Panades, Edith Beigne, Fabien CLermidy, Philippe Flatresse, Luca Benini, "Energy-Efficient Near-Threshold Parallel Computing: The PULPv2 Cluster", IEEE Micro, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 20-31, DOI: 10.1109/MM.2017.3711645
  
  
• Michael Gautschi, Michael Schaffner, Frank K. Gurkaynak, Luca Benini, "A 65nm CMOS 6.4-to-29.2pJ/FLOP@0.8V shared logarithmic floating point unit for acceleration of nonlinear function kernels in a tightly coupled processor cluster", 2016 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), pp 82 - 83, DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2016.7417917
  
  
• Francesco Conti, Robert Schilling, Davide Schiavone, Antonio Pullini, Davide Rossi, Frank K. Gurkaynak, Michael Muehlberghuber, Michael Gautschi, Igor Loi, Germain Haougou, Stefan Mangard, Luca Benini, "An IoT Endpoint System-on-Chip for Secure and Energy-Efficient Near-Sensor Analytics", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, Vol: 64, Issue: 9, Sept. 2017, pp 2481 - 2494, DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2017.2698019
  
  
• Antonio Pullini, Francesco Conti, Davide Rossi, Igor Loi, Michael Gautschi, Luca Benini, "A heterogeneous multi-core system-on-chip for energy efficient brain inspired vision", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs ( Volume: PP, Issue: 99 ), 2017, DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2017.2652982
  
  
• Michael Schaffner, Michael Gautschi, Frank K. Gurkaynak, Luca Benini, "Accuracy and Performance Trade-offs of Logarithmic Number Units in Multi-Core Clusters", 23rd IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (ARITH 2016), Santa Clara USA, DOI: 10.1109/ARITH.2016.10
  
  
• Davide Rossi, Antonio Pullini, Christoph Mueller, Igor Loi, Francesco Conti, Andreas Burg, Luca Benini, Philippe Flatresse, "A Self-Aware Architecture for PVT Compensation and Power Nap in Near Threshold Processors", IEEE Design & Test, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 46-53, Dec. 2017, DOI: 10.1109/MDAT.2017.2750907
  
  
• Francesco Conti, Lukas Cavigelli, Gianna Paulin, Igor Susmelj, Luca Benini, "Chipmunk: A Systolically Scalable 0.9 mm2, 3.08 Gop/s/mW @ 1.2 mW Accelerator for Near-Sensor Recurrent Neural Network Inference", In IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2018, DOI: 10.1109/CICC.2018.8357068
  
  
• Florian Glaser, Stefan Mach, Abbas Rahimi, Frank K. Gurkaynak, Qiuting Huang, Luca Benini, "An 826 MOPS, 210uW/MHz Unum ALU in 65 nm", In Proc. 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 27-30 May 2018, Florence, Italy, pp 1-5, DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8351546
  
  
• Philipp Schoenle, Giovanni Rovere, Florian Glaser, Jonathan Boesser, Noe Brun, Xu Han, Thomas Burger, Schekeb Fateh, Qing Wang, Luca Benini, Qiuting Huang, "A multi-sensor and parallel processing SoC for wearable and implantable telemetry systems", Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference, (ESSCIRC-2017),, DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2017.8094564
  
  
• Philipp Schoenle, Florian Glaser, Thomas Burger, Giovanni Rovere, Luca Benini, Qiuting Huang, "A Multi-Sensor and Parallel Processing SoC for Miniaturized Medical Instrumentation", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits PP issue:99, pp 1-12, DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2815653
  
  
• Antonio Pullini, Davide Rossi, Igor Loi, Alfio Di Mauro, Luca Benini, "Mr.Wolf: A 1 GFLOP/s Energy-Proportional Parallel Ultra Low Power SoC for IoT Edge Processing", In Proc. European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) 2018, 3-6 Sep 2018, Dresden, DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2018.8494247
  
  
• Renzo Andri, Lukas Cavigelli, Davide Rossi, Luca Benini, "Hyperdrive: A Systolically Scalable Binary-Weight CNN Inference Engine for mW IoT End-Nodes", In Proc. IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), July 2018, arXiv: 1804.00623
  
  
• Andrawes Al Bahou, Geethan Karunaratne, Renzo Andri, Lukas Cavigelli, Luca Benini, "XNORBIN: A 95 TOp/s/W hardware accelerator for binary convolutional neural networks", In Proc. 2018 IEEE Symposium in Low-Power and High-Speed Chips (COOL CHIPS), April 2018, Yokohama, Japan, DOI: 10.1109/CoolChips.2018.8373076