Thomas Benz

Designer for following chips

• Scarabaeus (2018)
• Thestral (2020)
• Dogeram (2021)
• Zest (2021)
• Neo (2022)
• Occamy (2022)
• Carfield (2023)
• Iguana (2023)
• Basilisk (2024)
• Mlem (2024)
• Flamingo (2025)
• Hati (2025)
• Koopa (2025)
• Skoll (2025)

Publications related to the chips in the gallery

• Thomas Benz, Luca Bertaccini, Florian Zaruba, Fabian Schuiki, Frank K. Gurkaynak, Luca Benini, "A 10-core SoC with 20 Fine-Grain Power Domains for Energy-Proportional Data-Parallel Processing over a Wide Voltage and Temperature Range", In Proc. IEEE 47th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Grenoble, France, 2021, pp. 263-266, DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIRC53450.2021.9567755
  
  
• Alessandro Ottaviano, Robert Balas, Tim Fischer, Thomas Benz, Andrea Bartolini, Luca Benini, "ControlPULPlet: A Flexible Real-time Multicore RISC-V Controller for 2.5-D Systems-in-Package", IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, arXiv: 2410.15985, DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2025.3596452
  
  
• Alessandro Ottaviano, Thomas Benz, Paul Scheffler, Luca Benini, "Cheshire: A Lightweight, Linux-Capable RISC-V Host Platform for Domain-Specific Accelerator Plug-In", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 70, no. 10, pp. 3777-3781, Oct. 2023, DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2023.3289186
  
  
• Gianna Paulin, Paul Scheffler, Thomas Benz, Matheus Cavalcante, Tim Fischer, Manuel Eggimann, Yichao Zhang, Nils Wistoff, Luca Bertaccini, Luca Colagrande, Gianmarco Ottavi, Frank K. Gurkaynak, Davide Rossi, Luca Benini, "Occamy: A 432-Core 28.1 DP-GFLOP/s/W 83% FPU Utilization Dual-Chiplet, Dual-HBM2E RISC-V-Based Accelerator for Stencil and Sparse Linear Algebra Computations with 8-to-64-bit Floating-Point Support in 12nm FinFET", In Proc. IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2024, pp. 1-2,, DOI: 10.1109/VLSITechnologyandCir46783.2024.10631529
  
  
• Angelo Garofalo, Alessandro Ottaviano, Matteo Perotti, Thomas Benz, Yvan Tortorella, Robert Balas, Michael Rogenmoser, Chi Zhang, Luca Bertaccini, Nils Wistoff, Maicol Ciani, Cyril Koenig, Mattia Sinigaglia, Luca Valente, Paul Scheffler, Manuel Eggimann, Matheus Cavalcante, Francesco Restuccia, Alessandro Bionda, Francesco Conti, Frank K. Gurkaynak, Davide Rossi, Luca Benini, "A Reliable, Time-Predictable Heterogeneous SoC for AI-Enhanced Mixed-Criticality Edge Applications", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, arXiv: 2502.18953, DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2025.3591225
  
  
• Thomas Benz, Paul Scheffler, Jannis Schoenleber, Luca Benini, "Iguana: An End-to-End Open-Source Linux-capable RISC-V SoC in 130nm CMOS", RISC-V Summit Europe 2023, Barcelona, Spain, June 5-9, 2023, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000641980
  
  
• Philippe Sauter, Thomas Benz, Paul Scheffler, Frank K. Gurkaynak, Luca Benini, "Insights from Basilisk: Are Open-Source EDA Tools Ready for a Multi-Million-Gate, Linux-Booting RV64 SoC Design?", In Proc. 33rd International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis (IWLS) 2024, June6-7, 2024. Arxiv:, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2405.04257
  
  
• Philippe Sauter, Thomas Benz, Paul Scheffler, Hannah Pochert, Luisa Wuethrich, Martin Poviser, Beat Muheim, Frank K. Gurkaynak, Luca Benini, "Croc: An End-to-End Open-Source Extensible RISC-V MCU Platform to Democratize Silicon", arXiv:2502.05090 [cs.AR], DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2502.05090