Is the Internet of Things What You Think It Is?
Ron Wilson of Altera posted a short piece about the IoT and two contrasting viewpoints about its structure. This is worth a look!
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Long-form writing on computer architecture, codesign, research practice, and the engineering systems around them.
Cross-Compiling SPEC2006 benchmarks for Alpha ISA on Ubuntu 12.04 x86-64
This guide will show you how to cross-compile SPEC2006 for Alpha using your regular old Ubuntu machine running on Intel. In particular, I have done this so that they can be run in gem5 for the Alpha ISA. I assume that …
Read articleQuick gem5 Build Guide for Alpha ISA on Ubuntu 12.04 x86-x64 Host
In this guide, I will walk you through a quick way to get gem5 built for the Alpha ISA using a Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit host. I have not tried these methods on any other platform. If you get stuck, you can always refer to …
Read articleAnandtech's Look at Altera OpenCL SDK for FPGAs
If you’re into hardware acceleration and heterogeneous computing, this is a good read. Currently, FPGAs are not commonly used by programmers to accelerate their workloads due to the difficulty of hardware design …
Read articleRichard Hamming's 1986 Talk at Bell Labs: 'You and Your Research'
Today, while working on my fellowship application, I was pondering the nature of graduate research and how one comes up with truly novel ideas. My friend and colleague, Lucas Wanner, sent me this transcription of a talk …
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First post! I’ll be blogging about my experiences as a Ph.D student in electrical engineering at UCLA. It may just be thoughts and insights about grad school, tips for other engineers and students on specific topics, …
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