CPU Microcode Engineer at Intel · Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering · Editor-in-Chief, ASIR.
Computer architecture is the study of how the hardware that runs software is organized. This opening chapter introduces the field and the vocabulary the rest of the book uses. The discussion moves from purpose…
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Three books, each starting from nothing and assuming no background beyond school mathematics, longest first. The Parts below are the reading order, not a menu.
The same architecture, organized the way an interview is organized.
≈ 42.7 h of reading
From first principles to the out-of-order engines in shipping processors.
≈ 32.3 h of reading
The mathematics behind ML-KEM and ML-DSA, built from nothing.
≈ 7 h of reading
Hours of reading across three books
Peer-reviewed papers
Years in industry
A ground-up CPU RTL design in SystemVerilog — from combinational building blocks through a fully pipelined processor, with open-source tooling.
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CPU Microcode Engineer at Intel with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. Work spans microcode, RTL design, and hardware architectures for Error Correction Coding. Editor in Chief at Applied Science and Innovative Research, editorial board member at the Journal of Education and Culture Studies, and seven peer-reviewed papers.
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