2026-10-22
Valid/Ready Backpressure: Deadlocks, Bubbles, and Fixes
Why valid/ready handshakes deadlock or lose throughput, and how to fix them with AXI rules, a skid buffer, SVA assertions, and a review checklist.
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2026-10-22
Reset Domain Crossing: The Bugs Your CDC Tool Misses
Why a path inside one clock domain can still go metastable, how to build reset synchronizers, an RDC fix in SystemVerilog, and a sign-off checklist.
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FPGA Timing Closure Basics for Teams New to FPGAs
How to read Vivado and Quartus timing reports, fix setup and hold violations, write honest clock and CDC constraints, and pipeline RTL until it closes.
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Why AI Accelerators Stall on Data Movement, Not Math
Why AI accelerators miss peak TOPS: roofline math, double buffering, AXI burst and outstanding-transaction sizing, SRAM bank conflicts, and stall counters.
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