Sep 2025 – Dec 2025 · 3 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · On-site

• Used SystemRDL to implement registers for a new Ethernet AN/LT IP, targeting an upcoming Altera FPGA.
• Actively investigating and developing AXI and Avalon arbiters, decoders, and bridges for use in the IP.
• This internship is still ongoing, so there's more to come as the term progresses.

Jan 2025 – Apr 2025 · 3 mos · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · On-site

• Wrote an optimized LPDDR DQ bus read-write training sequence for a next-generation Synopsys PHY.
• Implemented an in-place LZ4 compression library, requiring only a small, fixed amount of auxilary memory.
• Enabled reproducible firmware builds for a customer by identifying non-determinism in the C compiler itself.
• Improved runtime of several training steps by 20% though code optimization and analysis of ARC assembly.

May 2024 – Dec 2024 · 7 mos · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · On-site

• Implemented credit-based flow control in a Butterfly Fat Tree Network-on-Chip (BFT NoC) topology in Verilog. Targeted the AMD UltraScale+ FPGA family, working under the guidance of Dr. Nachiket Kapre during 3A and 3B academic terms. Became basis for a couple of research projects and used to teach ECE 720.
• Created tools to verify correctness and extract timing, area, and power data from logs for comparative analysis.

Jan 2024 – Apr 2024 · 3 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · On-site

• Designed an AXI width conversion IP from scratch in SystemVerilog for the main datapath of a future ASIC. Handles out-of-order AXI 4 traffic at multiple TB/s in aggregate without introducing bubbles.
• Created a synthesizable AXI-to-SRAM subordinate from scratch to aid in FPGA prototyping and simulation of AXI managers in Untether IP.
• Brought up a PCIe subsystem (PHY, controller, and datapath logic). Identified and overcame silicon bugs, and wrote firmware sequences in C to stress the link and send data bidirectionally.
• Identified and fixed memory corruption in diagnostic firmware using AddressSanitizer and Valgrind.

Sep 2023 – Dec 2023 · 3 mos · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · Remote

• Implemented Blinded Memory (BliMe) and taint-tracking into the Gemmini hardware accelerator, using Chisel, under the guidance of Hossam ElAtali and Dr. N. Asokan during 2B academic term.
• Resulting paper "Data-Oblivious ML Accelerators using Hardware Security Extensions” accepted into IEEE HOST 2024: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10545398

May 2023 – Aug 2023 · 3 mos · Ottawa, Ontario · Hybrid

• Developed UVM testcases to verify a future ASIC targeting an advanced 5 nm process.
• Identified more than 5 RTL bugs and their causes, wrote fixes, and made recommendations with Jira.
• Created a Python script to parse SystemVerilog modules and automatically generate assertions (SVAs).
• Recommended IP solutions to the chip lead, communicated directly with vendors and internal teams, and performed comparative analysis between IP options.

Sep 2022 – Dec 2022 · 3 mos · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Remote) · Remote

• Designed a major block in SystemVerilog for a future networking ASIC targeting an advanced 7 nm process.
• Optimized the packet processing pipeline to detect “halt” instructions and clock-gate flops in downstream stages to reduce power usage by up to 10%.
• Wrote VLIW assembly test stimulus to debug and ensure the functional correctness of the design.
• Analyzed the timing, area, and power impacts using SpyGlass, and documented findings formally.

Jan 2022 – Apr 2022 · 3 mos · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Remote)

• Developed micro-architectural aspects of a C++ cycle-approximate model for AArch64 (ARM 64-bit) cores.
• Profiled the model to identify opportunities for optimization with Valgrind and KCacheGrind.
• Rewrote C/C++ standard library functions using x86 AVX intrinsics, reduced heap allocations, and
• tweaked data structures to improve model runtime performance by 21.12x.
• Modelled data with Python, taking performance statistics from SQLite databases to automatically generate webpages leveraging JavaScript and Apache ECharts.

Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 · 2 mos · Leamington, Ontario · On-site

• Accepted payment from customers, produced orders as
• requested, and cleaned surfaces and machinery.

Oct 2019 – Jan 2020 · 3 mos · Leamington, Ontario, Canada