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The Art of Architectural Analysis: Utilization, Throughput, Latency
Putting TinyXPU Under the Microscope
Published on Chip Insights
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9 hrs ago
A coding agent equivalent for robotics pipelines
Part 4: Closing the action loop with a VLA vs. a spatial VLM "agent"
Mar 26
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Avik De
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Lessons from AVs on safety in end-to-end pipelines
Recent developments in autonomous vehicles on recognizing and handling distribution shift
Mar 20
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Avik De
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Mapping Algorithms to Custom Silicon - Part 2
Running matrix multiplication on a TPU-style architecture
Published on Chip Insights
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Mar 15
Systolic arrays for general robotics, AI, and scientific computing
MatMuls dominate today's accelerators, but the original vision was much broader
Mar 12
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Avik De
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February 2026
Debugging as architecture insight: dissecting a VLA
Part 3: Hands-on debugging of a vision-language-action model as a lens into architecture, safety, and verifiability
Feb 26
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Avik De
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What Wiener knew about (artificial) intelligence in 1948
Cybernetics anticipated feedback, structure, and the human stakes of machine intelligence with unsettling precision
Feb 21
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Avik De
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Cache effects in object-oriented code: computer architecture meets programming
A simple demonstration revealed five layers of computer science & engineering abstraction fighting each other
Feb 10
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Avik De
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Greg Anderson
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Mapping algorithms to custom silicon - Part 1
An introduction to the messy middle between software and microarchitecture
Published on Chip Insights
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Feb 9
"Is it learning?" Online motor adaptation in end-to-end robotics
Part 2: Where the low-level controller responds to the unexpected
Feb 3
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Avik De
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January 2026
The architecture behind “end-to-end” robotics pipelines
Part 1: Where the learning stack ends and the control stack begins
Jan 26
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Avik De
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What von Neumann understood about the architecture of intelligence before we built AI
The Computer and the Brain anticipated both the successes and shortcomings of deep learning AI 70 years ago
Jan 19
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Avik De
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