Ghala’s Design Notebook: Processor Design VIP
Week1: 01/20/26 - 01/25/26
- Had two meeting with the leadership team.
- Discussed: Gradebook, syllabus, first meeting of the semester, goals for the VIP, meeting times, … etc.
- Getting to know what my role as part of the management team entails and the expectations.
Discussion: looking forward for this semester and the goals we’re going to achieve.
Week2: 01/26/26 - 02/01/26
- Did small improvements on the Discord server.
- Created a gradebook for the VIP.
- Had our first all members meeting for the semester.
- Discussed what the returning members are expected to do with Darren and the other returning members.
Discussion: I already have done 1-4 Onboarding labs last semster but I found 3-4 Labs to be a little confusing so I went over them again and tried to understand them better. I haven’t created new files or folders but intend to create a folder specified for the onboarding labs once I start with Lab 5.
Last Semester’s Processor-Design VIP Project repository - folders: Lab1_Ghala, Lab2_Ghala, Lab3_Ghala, Lab4_Ghala
Week3: 02/02/26 - 02/08/26
- Read the papers written by previous ProcDesign members to understand the architecture
- Reviewed couple of online resources related to RISC-V design.
Discussion: I understand most of the material in the papers and the RTL code in nyu-core but don’t fully understand the C++ portion.
Week4: 02/09/26 - 02/15/26
- Completed lab 5.
- Had meeting with the leadership team.
ProcDesign Project repository - New folder: lab-5
Discussion: In lab 5 there isn’t much to do so as an exercise for myself I created a simple working rtl design along with a C++ tb using Verilator.