Ben Datsko

I'm a PhD student in ECE at the University of Michigan, designing mixed-signal CMOS computer architectures that compute through the continuous-time dynamics of circuits.

I work with Michael Flynn at the Michigan Integrated Circuits Laboratory. My background is in computer science, but I design mixed-signal computer architectures in VLSI process nodes from 130 nm down to 4 nm, taking each chip from digital RTL through place-and-route to tapeout, and writing the firmware that drives it. These chips solve problems like k-SAT and LDPC decoding by allowing arrays of coupled oscillators to settle into an equilibrium state (a solution), and digitally sampling the output.