Category: Archives

25 Sep

Function Unit Specialization through Code Analysis

This post is another entry in my life-archive series, and also from my academic career. This paper was actually accidental: I was enrolled in a graduate class and had to come up with a project for the quarter. I had a very out-there idea of taking what we had learned about VLIW [...]

02 Sep

PhatNoise: From concept to launch

I have been meaning to write several posts about my first company, PhatNoise, but haven’t had the chance to finish one off.  Well, after seeing an update on the Techcrunch tablet project over the weekend — especially the sentiment expressed in the comments – I decided to put something together.
There is a lot I want [...]

28 Jul

Optimizing FPGA-based vector product designs

This post will be my first archival experiment, so I decided to start off with one of my favorite academic projects.  This work was largely done while I was a visiting researcher at the wonderful Imperial College of London.
I remember literally staring at the math behind my lab’s latest research work.  I was a student [...]