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)
• Koopa (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, 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
  
  
• 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