I got two signatures at ASYNC 2025 - one in a physical book I just happened to be carrying (I didn't realize Dr. Sutherland was in the community) and another in my e-reader copy of the entry point of many younger people to the field.

Stixu now has a demo mode that pre-loads a diagram:

stixu.io?demo=1

It also now has features to export to IRSIM (recommended) or Verilog (might need some improvement, experimental) for event-based simulation.

I regularly get these kinds of industrial espionage offers.

Just contact PR if you want to do this legitimately.

This also has nothing to do with it. Heaven forbid I accidentally hit tab while writing code after Copilot "helpfully" suggests new bugs to introduce.

Thanks Visual Studio and Copilot, this has *nothing whatsoever* to do with the code I'm committing

Copilot (it's free since I have a student Github account) is a hindrance after the boilerplate is done, and in cases like this openly hostile

Is this what the grifters call "vibe coding"?

A snippet from Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing (FORTRAN Version)

I've held onto this book since a professor disposed of it a decade ago. The language is dated, but the algorithms are timeless

(William H. Press, Brian P. Flannery, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling. 1989)

Don't let him open Maps from outside the US

How about sequential circuits? State-dependent values appear as U (can be Z, 0, or 1), L (can be Z or 0), and H (can be Z or 1).

For example, is a MUTEX (mutual exclusion) element, common in asynchronous circuits.

#async #asynchronous

What happens if you have a short-circuit? Exactly what you would hope - you get an invalid X in the truth table.

What if the output is floating? You get a Z, as expected.

And of course, a simple inverter

NOR2 and OR2

Let's look at a few basic circuits...

Here are NAND2 and AND2

The default colorblind-accessible color scheme may not be the most familiar to users, but no worries! The "Sorcery" color scheme in the menu should make #MagicVLSI users feel at home.

Stixu.io is a free #CMOS #StickDiagramming tool.

It is useful for undergraduate students working on digital chip layout assignments and can serve academics as an intuitive tool to illustrate, analyze & validate #VLSI circuit topologies 🧵

#EDA #CircuitDesign #DigitalLogic #STEM #ComputerEngineering

This excerpt from _Speech and Language Processing_ (third edition draft) by @jurafsky.bsky.social and Dr. James H. Martin answers a question I've had since I first learned about dynamic programming over a decade ago, and is an example of how history often rhymes.