seanmclo

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by seanmclo 5y ago
I've been working on verifying memory coherency units of modern out-of-order CPUs for a few years now. Nowadays, this would be a huge miss if it were to escape to silicon. You'd have a dead on arrival product.
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by seanmclo 5y ago
Unfortunately, this isn’t always an option if you need to use a library that’s only available in Python.
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by seanmclo 6y ago
At this point, another big benefit of Python is its huge number of libraries. This is really attractive to lots of people who also want static type checking. Oftentimes, the benefits of using Python in a code base that would benefit from
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by seanmclo 6y ago
I can attest first-hand to the "headache" that comes from semi company simulation environments. Not only are they horribly outdated (in Perl/Tcl), but they're different at every company you work at. There's no gold
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by seanmclo 6y ago
I've been looking for an alternative hardware description language to Verilog/SystemVerilog because they're not very readable languages. But after skimming this source code, my initial thought is that I hope Haskell doesn&#x2
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by seanmclo 6y ago
Decide what process node this is aiming for, circuit layout, synthesis, working with a nanofab to actually build the thing, and assuming that there are bugs in there still, multiple rounds of post silicon debug. It's a long and expensi
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“Modern” Hardware Design(medium.com)
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by seanmclo 6y ago
Yes. In PDX, Azure recently had a big hiring frenzy and there was a lot of attrition as well.
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by seanmclo 6y ago
Intel employee. Can confirm all of the above.