Vita Variabilis

Narrationes de rebus magnis et minutis — The great and small stories of my timeline.

ARITH 2026: CIRCT Tutorial and Mathematical Intent on Silicon

A short report from ARITH 2026, where I co-ran a CIRCT tutorial with Sam Coward and demoed Emeraude-MLIR, HAriCo, and OpenROAD.

5 min read · July 04, 2026

2026 · arith mlir circt openroad tutorial demo arithmetic · science
My Latest TinyTapeout makes MLIR Arithmetic Silicon-Visible

A 2x2 TinyTapeout design built from an MLIR loop, carrying a generated floating-point accumulation core down to open silicon.

7 min read · March 14, 2026

2026 · tinytapeout mlir circt flopoco floating-point silicon · science
I Won the TinyTapeout Sticker Competition!

The sticker set built from my GDS-to-raytrace pipeline took first place and earned a free tapeout on the next TinyTapeout shuttle.

3 min read · December 07, 2025

2025 · tinytapeout stickers gds blender raytracing touchdesigner · arte-science
90s Retro Raytracing of SKY130HD Cells with Bryce

Extracting SKY130HD full adder geometry from GDS to Bryce for a 90s retro render pass.

4 min read · October 28, 2024

2024 · silicon art raytracing retro bryce · arte-science
Music/DJ set

Another 1h GOA set

1 min read · October 20, 2024

2024 · art, retro, goa, mixing, djset · music