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)
• Occamy (2022)

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
  
  
• Eric Flamand, Davide Rossi, Francesco Conti, Igor Loi, Antonio Pullini, Florent Rotenberg, Luca Benini, "GAP-8: A RISC-V SoC for AI at the Edge of the IoT", In Proc. IEEE 29th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP), Milan, Italy, 2018, pp. 1-4,European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) 2018, 3-6 Sep 2018, Dresden, DOI: 10.1109/ASAP.2018.8445101
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Davide Schiavone, Davide Rossi, Alfio Di Mauro, Frank K. Gurkaynak, Timothy Saxe, Mao Wang, Ket Chong Yap, Luca Benini, "Arnold: an eFPGA-Augmented RISC-V SoC for Flexible and Low-Power IoT End-Nodes", arXiv: 2006.14256
  
  
• Florian Zaruba, Fabian Schuiki, Stefan Mach, Luca Benini, "The Floating Point Trinity: A Multi-modal Approach to Extreme Energy-Efficiency and Performance", In Proc. 26th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), Genoa, Italy, 2019, DOI: 10.1109/ICECS46596.2019.8964820
  
  
• Alfio Di Mauro, Francesco Conti, Davide Schiavone, Davide Rossi, Luca Benini, "Hyperdrive: A Systolically Scalable Binary-Weight CNN Inference Engine for mW IoT End-Nodes Always-On 674uW @4GOP/s Error Resilient Binary Neural Networks With Aggressive SRAM Voltage Scaling on a 22-nm IoT End-Node", In IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, Volume 67, Issue 11, November 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2020.3012576
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Florian Zaruba, Fabian Schuiki, Luca Benini, "Manticore: A 4096-core RISC-V Chiplet Architecture for Ultra-efficient Floating-point Computing", Presented at Hot Chips: A Symposium on High Performance Chips (HC32) 2020, arXiv: 2008.06502
  
  
• Florian Zaruba, Fabian Schuiki, Torsten Hoefler, Luca Benini, "Snitch: A 10 kGE Pseudo Dual-Issue Processor for Area and Energy Efficient Execution of Floating-Point Intensive Workloads", arXiv preprint cs.AR/2002.10143, 2020
  
  
• Hayate Okuhara, Ahmed Elnaqib, Davide Rossi, Alfio Di Mauro, Philipp Mayer, Pierpaolo Plestri, Luca Benini, "An Energy-Efficient Low-Voltage Swing Transceiver for mW-Range IoT End-Nodes", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Sevilla, 2020, pp. 1-5, DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS45731.2020.9181081
  
  
• Angelo Garofalo, Gianmarco Ottavi, Alfio Di Mauro, Francesco Conti, Guiseppe Tagliavini, Luca Benini, Davide Rossi, "A 1.15 TOPS/W, 16-Cores Parallel Ultra-Low Power Cluster with 2b-to-32b Fully Flexible Bit-Precision and Vector Lockstep Execution Mode", IEEE 47th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC 2021), DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567767
  
  
• Davide Rossi, Francesco Conti, Manuel Eggimann, Stefan Mach, Alfio Di Mauro, Marco Guermandi, Giuseppe Tagliavini, Antonio Pullini, Igor Loi, Jie Chen, Eric Flamand, Luca Benini, "A 1.3TOPS/W @ 32GOPS Fully Integrated 10-Core SoC for IoT End-Nodes with 1.7uW Cognitive Wake-Up From MRAM-Based State-Retentive Sleep Mode", In Proc. IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2021, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2021, pp. 60-62, DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC42613.2021.9365939
  
  
• Moritz Scherer, Alfio Di Mauro, Georg Rutishauser Tim Fischer, Luca Benini, "A 1036 TOp/s/W, 12.2 mW, 2.72 μJ/Inference All Digital TNN Accelerator in 22 nm FDX Technology for TinyML Applications", IEEE Symposium in Low-Power and High-Speed Chips (COOL CHIPS 2022), DOI: 10.1109/COOLCHIPS54332.2022.9772668
  
  
• Francesco Conti, Davide Rossi, Gianna Paulin, Angelo Garofalo, Alfio Di Mauro, Georg Rutishauser, Gianmarco Ottavi, Manuel Eggimann, Hayate Okuhara, Vincent Huard, Olivier Montfort, Lionel Jure, N. Exibart, Pascal Gouedo, Mathieu Louvat, E. Botte, Luca Benini, "A 12.4TOPS/W @ 136GOPS AI-IoT System-on-Chip with 16 RISC-V, 2-to-8b Precision-Scalable DNN Acceleration and 30%-Boost Adaptive Body Biasing", International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 2023)