02 — SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS & WORKSHOPS
Talks
I speak about the architecture of physical compute — teaching open-source chip design workflows, embedded systems firmware, custom PCBs, and real-time safety-critical control paradigms.
Sharing design patterns and open schematics is the most direct path to collaborative engineering breakthroughs.
SELECTED ENGAGEMENTS
13th Apr, 2024
MIT Manipal
Open Source Hardware
Manipal Open Source Society (MOSS)
A comprehensive guide on the evolution, impact, and engineering pathways of Open Source Hardware. Walked through the structures of OSH (schematics, BoM, Gerbers, and firmware), CERN open hardware licensing models, and practical upstream contribution workflows (overloading Arduino libraries like LiquidCrystal for 5x10 displays). Outlined maps for students to transition from high-level Arduino code to bare-metal STM32 blue-pill coding, custom multi-layer PCB design (KiCad/Altium), embedded Linux (Yocto/Buildroot), RISC-V architectures, and the open-source ASIC/VLSI synthesis flow using Yosys and OpenLANE.
Covered Subjects:
OpenLANE
Skywalker
ArduPilot
Arduino
Embedded Systems
Hardware Design
VLSI
ASIC Design Flow
Yosys
Yocto
Buildroot
RISC-V
CERN OHR License
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