Srijan Gupta’s Design Notebook

Week 1 (01/26/26 - 02/01/26)

• Attended the introductory meeting.
• Went through the setup instructions, since I use a Linux machine and have designed hardware before, I did not have to make many changes.
• Was unable to get to the onboarding labs this week but will work more over the next week(s).

Week 2 (02/02/26 - 02/08/26)

• I completed the first three onboarding labs, which are linked here.
• I aim to complete more of the onboarding labs next week.

Week 3 (02/09/26 - 02/15/26)

• I was busy this week so only did some SystemVerilog review this week.

Week 4 (02/16/26 - 02/22/26)

• Attended the Wednesday meeting.
• Completed the onboarding labs.
• Read the first paper (About the CPU core).
• Get to the next paper next week.

Week 5 (02/23/26 - 03/01/26)

• Read the second paper (about the toolchains)

Week 6 (03/02/26 - 03/08/26)

• Attended the full team meeting
• Chose the AMBA subteam

Week 7 (03/09/26 - 03/15/26)

• Busy with project work so not much done

Week 8 (03/16/26 - 03/22/26)

• Spring Break

Week 9 (03/23/26 - 03/29/26)

• Getting more comfortable with SystemVerilog

Week 10 (03/30/26 - 04/05/26)

• Reading up about MPW

Week 11 (04/06/26 - 04/12/26)

• No VIP work

Week 12 (04/13/26 - 04/19/26)

• No VIP work

Week 13 (04/20/26 - 04/26/26)

• Met with teammates to discuss which MPW we would be proposing
• Decided on an FPU (Floating Point Unit)
• I chose to present on placement, routing and verification

Week 14 (04/27/26 - 05/03/26)

• Read up on open-source placement, routing and verification tools
• Presented our work on Saturday (05/02)