Archive - Chip Log

Fundamental guide to understanding DRAM Memory

Fundamental concepts behind HBM, LPDDR, GDDR and such memories

Aug 10 •

July 2025

3 Great Examples of how ASICs and FPGAs are used as Accelerators

Fast inverse square root, blazing fast regex pattern matching, matrix arithmetic and more...

Jul 27 •

How to prepare and apply for hardware engineering jobs

A guide especially for new college grads and early in career engineers

Jul 14 •

April 2025

How Intel makes sure the FDIV bug never happens again

The people and breakthroughs behind Intel’s quiet revolution in formal verification

Apr 25 •

December 2024

3 reasons why everyone must pursue a side project

Side projects are the antidote that your doctor did not prescribe, but should have. In this essay, we will look at three uses of this drug-free therapy.

Dec 28, 2024 •

November 2024

Apprentice, Specialist, Lieutenant, Leader - Ideas on how to craft your career

As an individual contributor, should you be a jack of many trades or a master of one?

Nov 17, 2024 •

October 2024

How to get the most out of your work experience

A blueprint to extract two different kinds of experiences, implicit and explicit, from your work

Oct 4, 2024 •

September 2024

3 Lessons from a Japanese Master Craftsman

Writing beautiful code, benevolent mentors, and the mind body connection

Sep 15, 2024 •

A simple (overlooked) tool to help you achieve your goals

External scaffolding for the mind

Sep 6, 2024 •

August 2024

Simple secret to writing world class documentation

There are usually three aspects of good documentation: completeness, accuracy and clarity.

Aug 18, 2024 •

Recipe for engineers to reach their potential

This post was inspired by a snippet from Tony Fadell’s book — Build.

Aug 7, 2024 •

July 2024

Deriving pleasure out of mundane every day code

While solving a tough problem or writing an involved piece of code, my mind is entirely occupied in solving that problem.

Jul 27, 2024 •

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