Publications (4)
ArtistIC: An Open-Source Toolchain for Top-Metal IC Art and Ultra-High-Fidelity GDSII Renders
Thomas Benz, Paul Scheffler, Nils Wistoff +3
Open-source projects require outreach material to grow their community, secure funds, and strengthen their influence. Numbers, specifications, and facts alone are intangible to uni…
Croc: An End-to-End Open-Source Extensible RISC-V MCU Platform to Democratize Silicon
Phillippe Sauter, Thomas Benz, Paul Scheffler +6
Ensuring a continuous and growing influx of skilled chip designers and a smooth path from education to innovation are key goals for several national and international "Chips Acts".…
Croc: Training the Next Generation Chip Designers on Domain-Specific End-to-End Open Source Silicon
Enrico Zelioli, Philippe Sauter, Thomas Benz +5
The demand for domain-specific systems-on-chip (SoCs) in artificial intelligence, robotics, and automotive systems is increasing the need for engineers with hands-on expertise on v…
Basilisk: Achieving Competitive Performance with Open EDA Tools on an Open-Source Linux-Capable RISC-V SoC
Phillippe Sauter, Thomas Benz, Paul Scheffler +4
We introduce Basilisk, an optimized application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) implementation and design flow building on the end-to-end open-source Iguana system-on-chip (SoC)…