Ben Datsko

Hi! I'm a PhD student in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan. I research analog computing, VLSI, and software-hardware codesign.

Select work

MEDUSA

Hardware k-SAT solver in 28nm CMOS.
DAEDALUS

Hardware 3-SAT solver in 28nm CMOS.
NEPTUNE

28 GHz beamformer built from identical tiled chiplets.
ELECTRO

Battery-powered bench supply for testing analog chips.
DACROQ

Remote job runner for our solver hardware.
TempoTimer

Pace clock app for swimmers.
QuickKey

Typing speed test in the browser.
PathVis

Watch pathfinding algorithms search a grid you draw.
Michigan Solar Car

Web app for the solar car team's race-strategy simulators.
Annoying Ghosts

Minecraft adventure map, released on Realms.
The Missing Sandwich II

Minecraft adventure map, released on Realms.

Publications

  • Medusa: A Scalable Quantum-Inspired k-SAT Solver with Make and Break Feedback

    Wormald, L. D., Hsu, Y-T., Dikopoulos, E., Tang, W., Datsko, B. , A. Hammoud, Zhang, Z., and Flynn, M. P.

    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2026, February

  • CMOS Quantum-Inspired Solvers for Low-Density Parity Check Codes and Satisfiability Problems

    Flynn, M. P., Wormald, L., Dikopoulos, E., Hsu, Y-T., Datsko, B. , Tang, W., and Zhang, Z.

    In 2026 Government Microcircuit Applications & Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech), 2026, March

  • Medusa: A Quantum-Inspired 200-Variable 1016-Clause Analog k-SAT Solver

    Wormald, L. D., Hsu, Y-T., Dikopoulos, E., Tang, W., Datsko, B. , A. Hammoud, Zhang, Z., and Flynn, M. P.

    In 2026 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2026, February

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  • CMOS Physics-Inspired Architectures and Circuits for Combinatorial Optimization Solvers

    Flynn, M. P., Dikopoulos, E., Wormald, L., Hsu, Y. T., Datsko, B. , Tang, W., and Zhang, Z.

    In 2025 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2025, December

  • Daedalus: A Physics-Inspired Mixed-Signal Optimization Engine With Dynamic Continuous-Time Injection for Solving 3-SAT Problems

    Dikopoulos, E.*, Hsu, Y. T.*, Wormald, L.*, Tang, W., Datsko, B. , Zhang, Z., and Flynn, M. P.

    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2025

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