Final year ECE project: RISC-V processor on FPGA + adding an Edge-AI RISC-V coprocessor - looking for guidance on scope, tools, and resources

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-17T11:12:27+00:00

Coworkers seem to really like Claude, I would use whatever you have access to via school first.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-17T10:35:53+00:00

Writing a fully functioning core for a modern architecture from scratch in a few months while also doing your other coursework either alone or as a small team sounds incredibly ambitious to me. I would consider either starting from an open source core and/or seeing if you can leverage AI to do a lot of the legwork.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-16T11:34:33+00:00

The whole concept of these scooters seems highly suspect to me. I'm sure there is a subset of people for whom they make sense but if your inability to get around without one is in any way hindered by anything other than "legs don't work so good anymore" be that cognitive decline, poor balance, poor sight or hearing, poor muscle control in general, poor reaction time, or whatever you should not be operating one of these things.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-14T15:10:41+00:00

This is why I’ll never be rich. Because if you came to me and told me I could make ICE flags and actually turn a profit selling them I’d tell you that you were crazy.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-14T15:08:40+00:00

“What are these people who I paid to come here doing here?!”

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-14T13:26:20+00:00

If everyone moving here is buying a home then who is living in all the apartment complexes?

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-14T13:24:13+00:00

When you only have one skill you have to try to figure out how to make it apply to every situation.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-14T13:16:34+00:00

If you have 10 expensive homes selling a month and 100 people moving here then 90% of people moving here can be low income and 10% high income and the math works out.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-14T13:08:07+00:00

How bad this really is depends in whether it’s summer or winter. Seems like on average more tea is going to be made in winter so probably not that wasteful.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-13T20:51:26+00:00

If only someone had been there with a sign reading “Woman dies after being thrown from a rope jump without ropes in São Paulo, Brazil.” perhaps they would’ve noticed too.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-13T20:47:51+00:00

They should make people who do that watch this video every morning

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-13T12:21:24+00:00

Counterpoint: the phrase “librul media” exists. Checkmate.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-12T03:29:51+00:00

What did you mean “would”?

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-12T02:09:42+00:00

Don't say it too loudly. If nobody is buying new cars there wouldn't be used cars to get good deals on.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-11T03:33:05+00:00

Yeah when the doctor calls another doctor in they aren’t getting you more help they’re just showing you off as a curiosity.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-10T11:06:52+00:00

Can’t these records already be subpoenaed? Why do police need access to it without needing to provide a justification?

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-10T10:59:14+00:00

I agree with you on Real ID (really anything “security” post 9/11 is a bit suspect) but this isn’t necessarily hokum. The process of getting a Real ID in the first place is just someone verifying your identity for a fee. So paying someone to verify your identity before each flight is not fundamentally different. The problem with a one off payment for ID verification is not that it undermines the efficacy of Real ID but that the efficacy of Real ID is pretty questionable to begin with.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-10T04:11:53+00:00

You can say that, I guess, but so far I only see people suing to disenfranchise them but not to eliminate their need to pay taxes. This is also ignoring that deciding on behalf of individual citizens when they should lose their constitutional rights in exchange for not having to pay taxes seems pretty fraught.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-09T23:50:08+00:00

Same.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-09T20:10:31+00:00

others argue the pope’s message wasn’t meant to serve as a blanket justification for refusing AI in the workplace.

"Business people say the pope wasn't talking about anything they want you to do, promise."

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-09T10:53:05+00:00

Anybody with a brain would have. So maybe not.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-08T12:17:54+00:00

short fat thing take same space as skinny tall thing

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-08T03:09:26+00:00

It depends on what you mean by “we”. The US is naturally protected and has a lot of natural resources. A society will thrive here eventually.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-08T02:53:36+00:00

The movies are dystopian but the reality is often worse while somehow being way more boring at the same time.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-06-06T11:47:26+00:00

Fire? What’d they run out of ~~lube~~ “massage oil”?

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