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throwaway4590

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    Comment #37774356

    A bit unorthodox to have a public throwaway and an anonymous-ish main account, I suppose ;)

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    Comment #37774228

    > I'm actually a hardware engineer. You can easily validate any specific idea using cycle accurate simulators If anything, I'm less convinced than before that you understand how co…

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    Comment #37773829

    Having worked in both software and hardware, I understand and appreciate this sentiment in software. But most software engineers don't understand the amount of time and compute tha…

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    Comment #37769574

    I believe my contributions start at Image 25 on Google. Images 1-24 are generic CPU boilerplate images that the lawyers add to most patents in the field.

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    Comment #37768896

    Whenever I see talk about Intel's FPGA unit, I link back to an invention I submitted to Intel while I was an intern there [0]. I went through the patent pipeline, but to my knowled…

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    Comment #23266486

    They have the patents to do even better than that and create hierarchies of miniature programmable fabric, similar to the concept of L1-L4 caches except for FPGA designs [0]. Unfor…

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    Comment #15390355

    There needs to be a marrying of software and hardware -- and processor instructions to support that. This is hierarchical reconfigurable cache-based architecture I designed a while…