Benjamin Carrion Schafer

I am currently an assistant research manager at NEC’s Central Research Laboratories in Tokyo, Japan, where I work at the System IP Core laboratory researching novel VLSI design techniques and power an thermal efficient computer architectures. Prior joining NEC I worked at Seoul National University’s electrical engineering department as a visiting research scholar and at the University of California Los Angeles as a postdoctoral researcher right after completing my Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham in En

Working with Prof. Taewhan Kim in thermal related issues in VLSI designs. Mainly p1) VLSI temperature simulators p2) Thermal-aware compilers for VLIW processors p3) Thermal-aware floorplanner p4) Methods to eliminate hotspots in VLSI circuits (ASICs and FPGAs)

Embedded and Reconfigurable Systems Laboratory (Prof. Majid Sarrafzadeh) (Feb. 2003 – Dic. 2004) High level synthesis for FPGAs: Developing a complete high level synthesis tool for FPGA based hardware designs, compiling C code into VHDL. (Compiler front end, toolboxes for automatic precision analysis and simulation, binding, area estimation, semi-automatic control unit generation, and RTL back end).

First year courses Statistics, organizational behavior, finance I, finance II, information systems, R&D, International Environment, Managing teamwork, operations management, accounting, marketing, strategy, I-core Second year courses: Applied corporate finance, topics in strategy,

Ph.D. School of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Interdisciplinary research project with the Civil Engineering Department). Advisors Dr. Steven Quigley and Dr. A.H. Chan. Title: “Acceleration of the Discrete Element Method on a Reconfigurable Co-Processor” (Available online at http:

Combined MS.C degree in Microelectronics from Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK and Fachhochshule Darmstadt, Germany Awarded with a distinction. Final project at Siemens Semiconductors (now Infineon Technologies) R+D headquarters in Munich, Germany (June 1998-Dec 1998) Designing an interfa

General degree in electrical and electronic engineering.