Nicolai Brand's Webpage

I have just started working on my masters project where I am focusing on the automatic construction of tailor made machine learning accelerators. More specifically, I am working on mapping ML computation graphs (represented using QONNX) into parameterizable RTL modules written in Chisel that follow a “streaming dataflow” architecture. The output is thus a tailor made accelerator for the particular ML model given as input.

I am working full-time this summer. Whenever I find the time I am experimenting with creating a compiler that lets you modify a typechecked AST of the source at compile-time. During that project I got side tracked and created a 64-bit RISC-V software emulator / VM. That got me side tracked once more, and now I am looking into the question - what would a strict 8-bit machine look like? Strict, as in each instruction has to be encoded within 8 bits and each register must be 8 bits wide. That has some interesting consequenses and constraints, see lynx.lytix.dev