Microarch Club

The art, science, and history of processor design.

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The WebAssembly Founding Story

@TitzerBL tells the story of how WebAssembly evolved out of collaboration between the Firefox team at Mozilla and the V8 team at Google, which was initially motivated by the introduction of asm.js.

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How a Sea of Nodes Compiler Works

@TitzerBL walks through how a Sea of Nodes compiler works, and evaluates both the technical and organizational trade-offs compared to traditional basic block approaches.

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Fitting High-Level Languages on Microcontrollers

@TitzerBL describes optimization techniques that can be used to bring high-level language features to microntrollers, such as reference compression, romization, and reachable members analysis.

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1000: Ben Titzer

@TitzerBL joins to talk about the history of WebAssembly, the design of V8’s TurboFan optimizing compiler, and the Virgil programming language. We also discuss mitigating side-channel attacks in software, and how to design high performance virtual machines.

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Successful Hardware Relies on Robust Software Ecosystems

@silikayli discusses the rise of custom silicon and emphasizes the importance of a software ecosystem in the success of new hardware, using NVIDIA's CUDA platform as an example.

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Why Verification Became the Chip Design Bottleneck

@silikayli explains why design verification has become a bottleneck in the production of new chips, and how workflows used in software development can be applied to logic design to improve the situation.

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The Power & Limitations of Verilator

@silikayli describes using Verilator, an open source Verilog / SystemVerilog simulator, in industry, detailing the differences between cycle-based and event-based simulators, and the benefits of running simulation in parallel.

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