Max Korbel
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BREAKING NEWS: Sachin Katti, Intel’s chief technology and artificial intelligence officer, is leaving the chipmaker for ChatGPT creator OpenAI. www.crn.com/news/compone...
Intel AI Leader Sachin Katti Decamps To OpenAI
Intel Chief Technology Officer Sachin Katti is headed to OpenAI.
www.crn.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Sachin Katti, Intel’s chief technology and artificial intelligence officer, is leaving the chipmaker for ChatGPT creator OpenAI. www.crn.com/news/compone...
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I finally got around to doing another Surfer release, so now we're on v0.4.0 🎉
My personal highlights are the new web assembly based translator system, and the improvements to our waveform control protocol, and you can read the full change log at gitlab.com/surfer-proje...
My personal highlights are the new web assembly based translator system, and the improvements to our waveform control protocol, and you can read the full change log at gitlab.com/surfer-proje...
November 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I finally got around to doing another Surfer release, so now we're on v0.4.0 🎉
My personal highlights are the new web assembly based translator system, and the improvements to our waveform control protocol, and you can read the full change log at gitlab.com/surfer-proje...
My personal highlights are the new web assembly based translator system, and the improvements to our waveform control protocol, and you can read the full change log at gitlab.com/surfer-proje...
🧩 Want the details behind AI-accelerated hardware design?
Desmond Kirkpatrick’s blog shows how ROHD and LLMs enable agile, test-driven hardware evolution.
📝 buff.ly/kKimODN
Join the community 👉 buff.ly/MKcOpvD
#AI #EDA #OpenSourceHardware #Hardware #ROHD
Desmond Kirkpatrick’s blog shows how ROHD and LLMs enable agile, test-driven hardware evolution.
📝 buff.ly/kKimODN
Join the community 👉 buff.ly/MKcOpvD
#AI #EDA #OpenSourceHardware #Hardware #ROHD
AI-accelerated Agile Design Using the ROHD Framework
There is a lot of excitement about applying AI to VLSI design as well as a lot of concern that Large Language Models (LLMs) will generate expansive hardware descriptions riddled with hard-to-find…
buff.ly
November 1, 2025 at 10:36 PM
🧩 Want the details behind AI-accelerated hardware design?
Desmond Kirkpatrick’s blog shows how ROHD and LLMs enable agile, test-driven hardware evolution.
📝 buff.ly/kKimODN
Join the community 👉 buff.ly/MKcOpvD
#AI #EDA #OpenSourceHardware #Hardware #ROHD
Desmond Kirkpatrick’s blog shows how ROHD and LLMs enable agile, test-driven hardware evolution.
📝 buff.ly/kKimODN
Join the community 👉 buff.ly/MKcOpvD
#AI #EDA #OpenSourceHardware #Hardware #ROHD
🚀 AI isn’t just for software engineers anymore!
Intel’s Desmond Kirkpatrick shows how LLMs + the ROHD framework can assist hardware engineers in real-time design and verification.
🎥 Watch: buff.ly/VQTogJb
#AI #HardwareDesign #ROHD #AgileHardware #OpenSource #Semiconductors
Intel’s Desmond Kirkpatrick shows how LLMs + the ROHD framework can assist hardware engineers in real-time design and verification.
🎥 Watch: buff.ly/VQTogJb
#AI #HardwareDesign #ROHD #AgileHardware #OpenSource #Semiconductors
AI Accelerated Agile Design Using the ROHD Framework
This video demonstrates using AI-accelerated agile hardware design in the Rapid Open Hardware Development or (ROHD) framework (https://intel.github.io/rohd-website/) to build a new component, a…
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
🚀 AI isn’t just for software engineers anymore!
Intel’s Desmond Kirkpatrick shows how LLMs + the ROHD framework can assist hardware engineers in real-time design and verification.
🎥 Watch: buff.ly/VQTogJb
#AI #HardwareDesign #ROHD #AgileHardware #OpenSource #Semiconductors
Intel’s Desmond Kirkpatrick shows how LLMs + the ROHD framework can assist hardware engineers in real-time design and verification.
🎥 Watch: buff.ly/VQTogJb
#AI #HardwareDesign #ROHD #AgileHardware #OpenSource #Semiconductors
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I've been experimenting with using the new analyzer plugin API for code generation, and it's actually really cool!
⚡️ Instant code generation
🔬 Surgical updates in the same file
🔎 Report outdated/wrong code as lint warnings
🪄 Auto-regenerate outdated/wrong code via 'dart fix'
⚡️ Instant code generation
🔬 Surgical updates in the same file
🔎 Report outdated/wrong code as lint warnings
🪄 Auto-regenerate outdated/wrong code via 'dart fix'
October 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I've been experimenting with using the new analyzer plugin API for code generation, and it's actually really cool!
⚡️ Instant code generation
🔬 Surgical updates in the same file
🔎 Report outdated/wrong code as lint warnings
🪄 Auto-regenerate outdated/wrong code via 'dart fix'
⚡️ Instant code generation
🔬 Surgical updates in the same file
🔎 Report outdated/wrong code as lint warnings
🪄 Auto-regenerate outdated/wrong code via 'dart fix'
Announcing ROHD Bridge v0.1.2! This update comes with some big improvements based on user feedback: bug fixes, improved error messages, and more API flexibility.
See the full changelog here:
See the full changelog here:
rohd_bridge changelog | Dart package
A ROHD-based framework for connectivity and assembly of hardware designs.
buff.ly
October 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Announcing ROHD Bridge v0.1.2! This update comes with some big improvements based on user feedback: bug fixes, improved error messages, and more API flexibility.
See the full changelog here:
See the full changelog here:
ROHD unlocks modern software patterns to generate hardware! This excellent blog post by Desmond A Kirkpatrick shows how natural it is to develop a recursive algorithm into succinct, verifiable hardware -- starting from the equivalent algorithm in software!
Refining Software Algorithms to Hardware Implementations: Recursion
As a new way of describing hardware programmatically, ROHD opens up the world of hardware design to people with background in software algorithms. Today, we see a lot of hardware design in the space…
buff.ly
October 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
ROHD unlocks modern software patterns to generate hardware! This excellent blog post by Desmond A Kirkpatrick shows how natural it is to develop a recursive algorithm into succinct, verifiable hardware -- starting from the equivalent algorithm in software!
The ROHD Hardware Component Library (ROHD-HCL) has released v0.2.1, enhancing its features with new components like dot products, memory init, sign magnitude, more arithmetic operators, sign extension in reduction trees, typed FIFOs. Full change log: buff.ly/WHsLiGn.
rohd_hcl changelog | Dart package
The ROHD Hardware Component Library (ROHD-HCL): a collection of reusable, configurable ROHD components.
buff.ly
September 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The ROHD Hardware Component Library (ROHD-HCL) has released v0.2.1, enhancing its features with new components like dot products, memory init, sign magnitude, more arithmetic operators, sign extension in reduction trees, typed FIFOs. Full change log: buff.ly/WHsLiGn.
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Jaspr 0.21.0 is out! 🐾
It comes with:
✒️ Simpler and more Flutter-like syntax
🪄 Optimized performance and stability
🎨 More styling properties
Oh, and all breaking changes can be migrated fully automatically.
Check 🧵for details
It comes with:
✒️ Simpler and more Flutter-like syntax
🪄 Optimized performance and stability
🎨 More styling properties
Oh, and all breaking changes can be migrated fully automatically.
Check 🧵for details
September 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Jaspr 0.21.0 is out! 🐾
It comes with:
✒️ Simpler and more Flutter-like syntax
🪄 Optimized performance and stability
🎨 More styling properties
Oh, and all breaking changes can be migrated fully automatically.
Check 🧵for details
It comes with:
✒️ Simpler and more Flutter-like syntax
🪄 Optimized performance and stability
🎨 More styling properties
Oh, and all breaking changes can be migrated fully automatically.
Check 🧵for details
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This Friday I successfully defended my PhD 🎉 If you want to watch a recording of the defense there is a recording here vimeo.com/1114208379/89dcd4f302
Improved Tooling for Digital Hardware Development - Frans Skarman
This is "Improved Tooling for Digital Hardware Development - Frans Skarman" by Linköping University on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and…
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August 31, 2025 at 6:54 AM
This Friday I successfully defended my PhD 🎉 If you want to watch a recording of the defense there is a recording here vimeo.com/1114208379/89dcd4f302
I tried adding a dual boot Ubuntu with Omakub (omakub.org) to my personal laptop (Dell XPS Plus 13), and it's pretty good! Surprisingly, it gets way less hot, the battery lasts longer, and things feel very snappy, I guess without the bloat.
Omakub
Turn a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully-configured, beautiful, and modern web development system by running a single command.
omakub.org
August 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I tried adding a dual boot Ubuntu with Omakub (omakub.org) to my personal laptop (Dell XPS Plus 13), and it's pretty good! Surprisingly, it gets way less hot, the battery lasts longer, and things feel very snappy, I guess without the bloat.
I'm excited to share that I've joined the CHIPS Alliance governing board as the representative for Intel Corporation! I am looking forward to further contribute to open source hardware.
Governance
The CHIPS Alliance is a directed fund of [The Linux Foundation](https://linuxfoundation.org/), a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization. Following best practices in the industry, we maintain a clear and…
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August 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I'm excited to share that I've joined the CHIPS Alliance governing board as the representative for Intel Corporation! I am looking forward to further contribute to open source hardware.
Announcing ROHD Bridge!! The best way to connect and assemble large hardware designs, now joining the rest of the ROHD ecosystem. ROHD Bridge is extremely fast, flexible, powerful, and modern.
See the announcement blog post for more details:
See the announcement blog post for more details:
Announcing ROHD Bridge
Designing large hardware systems can be tough, and it’s crucial to have a good solution for managing hierarchy and connecting all the pieces. Even though the top level of your SoC is mostly just…
buff.ly
August 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Announcing ROHD Bridge!! The best way to connect and assemble large hardware designs, now joining the rest of the ROHD ecosystem. ROHD Bridge is extremely fast, flexible, powerful, and modern.
See the announcement blog post for more details:
See the announcement blog post for more details:
Build better hardware faster with ROHD v0.6.6! This version introduces new features for "cloning" signals and interfaces, and automates inferring and constructing matching types for structs, ports, etc. These enhancements boost type safety, consistency, and EDA development.
rohd changelog | Dart package
The Rapid Open Hardware Development (ROHD) framework, a framework for describing and verifying hardware.
buff.ly
August 16, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Build better hardware faster with ROHD v0.6.6! This version introduces new features for "cloning" signals and interfaces, and automates inferring and constructing matching types for structs, ports, etc. These enhancements boost type safety, consistency, and EDA development.
Want to build hardware with AI? ROHD with the new Dart MCP server is your best bet! Dart 3.9 now better supports tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot for error fixing, dependency management, and code correction, significantly boosting HW dev. Don't miss out! Learn more about ROHD: buff.ly/2waUTww
Announcing Dart 3.9
Hello, Dart developers! The latest stable version, Dart 3.9, is officially here!
buff.ly
August 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Want to build hardware with AI? ROHD with the new Dart MCP server is your best bet! Dart 3.9 now better supports tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot for error fixing, dependency management, and code correction, significantly boosting HW dev. Don't miss out! Learn more about ROHD: buff.ly/2waUTww
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"How do FPGAs execute blocking assignments in one clock cycle?"
Is the perfect question to frame common learning curve hurdles that folks need to get over when learning HDL.
www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comme...
#fpga #hardware #verilog #vhdl #hdl #rtl #hls #asic #eda
Is the perfect question to frame common learning curve hurdles that folks need to get over when learning HDL.
www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comme...
#fpga #hardware #verilog #vhdl #hdl #rtl #hls #asic #eda
Software, FPGA Execution, a PipelineC response
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August 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This is really cool!
August 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
This is really cool!
Announcing v0.6.4 of ROHD! It's never been a better time to accelerate the way you develop hardware.
This release has some nice bug fixes, performance enhancements, and new convenient APIs for SynthBuilder and FiniteStateMachine. Check it out!
This release has some nice bug fixes, performance enhancements, and new convenient APIs for SynthBuilder and FiniteStateMachine. Check it out!
rohd changelog | Dart package
The Rapid Open Hardware Development (ROHD) framework, a framework for describing and verifying hardware.
buff.ly
July 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Announcing v0.6.4 of ROHD! It's never been a better time to accelerate the way you develop hardware.
This release has some nice bug fixes, performance enhancements, and new convenient APIs for SynthBuilder and FiniteStateMachine. Check it out!
This release has some nice bug fixes, performance enhancements, and new convenient APIs for SynthBuilder and FiniteStateMachine. Check it out!
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Beautiful! github.com/flutter/flut...
[ Tool ] Enable `omit_obvious_*_types` and `specify_nonobvious_*_type… · flutter/flutter@1709c88
…s` lints (#172018) Sources under `packages/flutter_tools/` aren't accessible to the average Flutter user by navigating through sources from their projects, so it doesn't need to be as exp...
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July 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Beautiful! github.com/flutter/flut...
ROHD enables some really powerful abstraction! In this video, Desmond Kirkpatrick builds and uses advanced data types for a real feature in ROHD-HCL: implementation of floating point DAZ, FTZ, and subnormal as zero!
Advanced Data Types -- Implementing Floating Point DAZ and FTZ in ROHD-HCL [Demo]
A demonstration of adding a new feature to Floating Point infrastructure in the ROHD Hardware Component Library (ROHD-HCL) (https://github.com/intel/rohd-hcl...
youtu.be
July 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
ROHD enables some really powerful abstraction! In this video, Desmond Kirkpatrick builds and uses advanced data types for a real feature in ROHD-HCL: implementation of floating point DAZ, FTZ, and subnormal as zero!
Curious about the future of hardware design? Announcing ROHD-HCL v0.2.0!
This release has tons of new stuff, including arbitrary-width floating/fixed point arithmetics, reduction trees, clock gating, counters, finders, error correcting, standard interfaces, and much more for free! buff.ly/6eyZEOi
This release has tons of new stuff, including arbitrary-width floating/fixed point arithmetics, reduction trees, clock gating, counters, finders, error correcting, standard interfaces, and much more for free! buff.ly/6eyZEOi
July 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Curious about the future of hardware design? Announcing ROHD-HCL v0.2.0!
This release has tons of new stuff, including arbitrary-width floating/fixed point arithmetics, reduction trees, clock gating, counters, finders, error correcting, standard interfaces, and much more for free! buff.ly/6eyZEOi
This release has tons of new stuff, including arbitrary-width floating/fixed point arithmetics, reduction trees, clock gating, counters, finders, error correcting, standard interfaces, and much more for free! buff.ly/6eyZEOi
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Jaspr is now mentioned on dart.dev/web as a great way to build websites with @dart.dev ! 🎯
It's so cool to finally see this on the official site. 🤩
It's so cool to finally see this on the official site. 🤩
May 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Jaspr is now mentioned on dart.dev/web as a great way to build websites with @dart.dev ! 🎯
It's so cool to finally see this on the official site. 🤩
It's so cool to finally see this on the official site. 🤩
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June 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Reposted by Max Korbel
Me and a friend (Well mostly my friend, she did most of the design work) built a fully analog flappy bird last weekend
No digital logic, just ~30 op amps and 70-80 resistors, a bunch of capacitors and a few analog switches. All assembled during a 48 hour game jam
No digital logic, just ~30 op amps and 70-80 resistors, a bunch of capacitors and a few analog switches. All assembled during a 48 hour game jam
April 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Me and a friend (Well mostly my friend, she did most of the design work) built a fully analog flappy bird last weekend
No digital logic, just ~30 op amps and 70-80 resistors, a bunch of capacitors and a few analog switches. All assembled during a 48 hour game jam
No digital logic, just ~30 op amps and 70-80 resistors, a bunch of capacitors and a few analog switches. All assembled during a 48 hour game jam
Exciting update for hardware developers! DartPad now features Google Gemini, enabling AI-driven hardware design in your browser with no setup needed. LLMs excel with ROHD as it's in Dart, not SV. Try a simple ROHD counter example by adding an int argument for increment amount: buff.ly/N5NCYpb
Gemini for DartPad
Say hello to Gemini in DartPad!
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April 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Exciting update for hardware developers! DartPad now features Google Gemini, enabling AI-driven hardware design in your browser with no setup needed. LLMs excel with ROHD as it's in Dart, not SV. Try a simple ROHD counter example by adding an int argument for increment amount: buff.ly/N5NCYpb