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FPGA/ASIC + Machine Learning: Data Centers, Self-driving cars and Edge devices
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Education of Chip Designers at a Large Scale: A Proposal
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10584365
Let it be here. Life lessons from one of the greatest computer scientists.
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/life-lessons-from-the-first-half-century-of-my-career/
Tenstorrent Wormhole Series

Part 1: Physicalities
Part 2: Which disabled rows?
Part 3: NoC propagation delay
Part 4: A touch of Ethernet
Part 5: Taking apart T tiles
Part 6: Vector instruction set
Part 7: Bits of the MatMul

https://tenstorrent.com/vision/community-highlight-tenstorrent-wormhole-series-part-1-physicalities
I'm excited to share a sneak peek of our latest work at Intel Corporation —
a groundbreaking approach to Electronic Design Automation (EDA) that integrates intelligent design agents into the engineering workflow.

Our agent, trained on massive datasets from the best of our engineers, provides real-time insights and solutions within the EDA tools, enabling the solving of tasks ranging from simple to complex multi-iteration challenges, making the design process more efficient and innovative.

*This demo utilizes The OpenROAD Project, an open-source EDA tool developed by The Regents of the University of California.


url: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/itai-yeshurun_intel-eda-llm-ugcPost-7267911435886682112-IIhh
Thx to @cpu_design
Author — Rahul B. at Tenstorrent
"Here’s my list of 5 papers you should read to learn about Out-of-Order Processors!"

#1 The Microarchitecture of Superscalar Processors by James E. Smith and Gurindar S. Sohi

— Touches on every aspect of superscalar processor design and does an excellent job explaining concepts like register renaming, instruction scheduling, and memory operations.

https://course.ece.cmu.edu/~ece447/s15/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=00476078.pdf

#2 The Alpha 21264 Microprocessor by R. E. Kessler

— Explains the instruction fetch, branch prediction, out-of-order execution, instruction retire and exceptions and the internal memory system for the Alpha 21264 processor.

https://course.ece.cmu.edu/~ece447/s15/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=kessler_-_1999_-_the_alpha_21264_microprocessor.pdf

#3 Implementing Precise Interrupts in Pipelined Processors by James E. Smith and Andrew R. Pleszkun

— This paper does a great job at describing and evaluating solutions to the precise interrupt problem in pipelined processors.

https://course.ece.cmu.edu/~ece447/s15/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=00004607.pdf

#4 Checkpoint Repair for Out-of-order Execution Machines by Wen-mei W. Hwu and Yale N. Patt

— Discusses the several properties for the checkpoint repair mechanism to reset the processor state to a known previous state.

https://course.ece.cmu.edu/~ece447/s15/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=p18-hwu.pdf

#5 A case for (partially) TAgged GEometric history length branch prediction by André Seznec and Pierre Michaud

— This paper provides an excellent introduction to TAGE predictors, covering all relevant terminology along with hardware implementation details.

https://www.irisa.fr/caps/people/seznec/JILP-COTTAGE.pdf
A start-up demonstrating LLM Inference on FPGA Altera Agilex 7M vs Nvidia H100
https://www.positron.ai/
looks pretty fantastic. there are probably some nuances and limitations...
VeloxCon 2025
https://veloxcon.io/
Keynote Panel Hardware Accelerators: The Next 10x for Data Management
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WSuXCM2LV0
Once again about TPU: Philosophy and Scaling
https://henryhmko.github.io/posts/tpu/tpu.html