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Changing Roles from Post-silicon Validation to Architecture

August 14, 2022 padopadoblog

Comment: Hi! I am a new BSEE graduate who just started out as a post-silicon validation engineer for mixed-signal ICs. I saw your blog a

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Full Remote Hardware Engineer Vanlife (Part 1)

April 23, 2022 padopadoblog

Introduction I’ve been working as a hardware engineer (CPU/GPU power architect) from a fully decked out van since March of 2021. At the time of

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ECE Career Change: GPU Validation to Power and Performance Architecture

April 11, 2022 padopadoblog

Hey, hope you don’t mind the PM out of the blue. I saw one of your comments on an old r/ECE thread about how you

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A day in the Life of a Computer Architect During the Pandemic

January 2, 2021 padopadoblog

Night Before: My day actually begins the night before. What I mean by this is before I go to bed I check my Outlook calendar

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Chris Lattner, RISC-V, And the Future of Computing

October 31, 2020 padopadoblog

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MIT’s Free “Missing Semester of Your CS Education” Classes

May 2, 2020 padopadoblog

When I was a young nerd just starting my engineering education in undergrad I had already had a handle on Linux but I wasn’t well

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What do Electrical/Computer Engineers Actually do in the Semiconductor Industry (AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm, etc…) to make CPUs and GPUs?

February 2, 2020 padopadoblog

One of the most common questions I get is what do electrical/computer engineers who design CPUs and GPUs actually do on a day to day

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The Future of Computing, Moore’s Law is Not Dead, Law of Accelerating Returns, and More from Rock Star CPU Architect Jim Keller (AMD, Tesla, Apple, Intel)

January 20, 2020 padopadoblog

I’m conflicted. Generally speaking, if you have to go out of your way to proclaim something is not dead, it’s usually dead or dying. But

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“Software People Don’t Quite Get Hardware”. The Future is Hardware/Software Co-Design. Hennessy and Patterson Turing Talk

January 18, 2020 padopadoblog

Hennessy and Patterson are familiar names to anyone that has studied computer architecture. They are the authors of the widely accepted textbook “Computer Architecture: A

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Absolute Must Read Motivation for Engineers and Scientists: Richard Hamming “You and Your Research”

January 15, 2020 padopadoblog

Full transcript of “You and Your Research” here. Biography of Richard Hamming Richard Hamming is most famous for Hamming code used heavily in information theory

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How to Fail an Interview in the Semiconductor Industry AMD/Intel/Nvidia/Apple/Qualcomm/Samsung/Google/Amazon/Microsoft

January 13, 2020 padopadoblog

I’ve been on both sides of the interview table many times and it’s a tough and awkward process that lacks structure and consistency from company

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Q&A Session with AMD/Intel/Samsung Electrical/Computer Engineer Part 2

January 4, 2020 padopadoblog

Question from Anonymous Engineer 6 Your blog post is amazing. I recently left my job after 4 years in the VLSI/FPGA industry to pursue Masters

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Final Portfolio Update: 600k to 1.4 MM in less than three years

August 22, 2021 padopadoblog

Target: $1,100,000 Current Balance: $1,368,000 Remaining: Nothing! As the title states, this is the last formal portfolio update that I’ll be doing. This is partially

Financial Freedom Reframed my Notion of Career and Work

May 28, 2021 padopadoblog

Let’s recap. I have luckily/fortunately exceeded my financial target that I created at the inception of this blog a little over two years back. I’ve

A day in the Life of a Computer Architect During the Pandemic

January 2, 2021 padopadoblog

Night Before: My day actually begins the night before. What I mean by this is before I go to bed I check my Outlook calendar

Portfolio Update #7: exceeded the financial goal of 1.1 Million dollars one year before schedule

December 26, 2020 padopadoblog

December 26th 2020 Target: $1,100,000 Current Balance: $1,206,000 Remaining: Nothing! Reached and exceeded my financial goal Back in November of 2019 I had set a

Chris Lattner, RISC-V, And the Future of Computing

October 31, 2020 padopadoblog

Required Viewing; Interview with the creator of C++

October 29, 2020 padopadoblog

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