Paul Gutierrez’ Design Notebook

9/15/26

* Built a simple slides deck for the purposes of the meeting, as well as a simple questionnaire using google forms to obtain knowledge level on team members.
* Gave an introduction to the processor design team, what it’s about, our goals for this semester, and how we will go forth with accomplishing those goals.
* Also assigned the first design notebook to group A members, as well as reading the ISA for the RISC-V RV32I Base Integer Instruction Set to group B members.

9/22/26

Goals for today: * Go through the documentation for the ISA with students, as well as important defining information for the processor’s micro-architecture. * Allow for an open discussion from the team members, offering guiding questions in order to steer the conversation in the right direction. * Record responses about processor design decisions by the team in a shared document so that all members have access to said document. I would like to meet the above goals with the team during our regular meeting tomorrow, and will comment if these goals have been met as a follow-up.