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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 ha…

Unfortunately, this isn’t always an option if you need to use a library that’s only available in Python.

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 benefi…

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 Not only are they horribly outdated (in Perl/Tcl), but they're different at every co…

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 ini…

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, multipl…

Yes. In PDX, Azure recently had a big hiring frenzy and there was a lot of attrition as well.

Intel employee. Can confirm all of the above.