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Stefan Abi-Karam @stefanabikaram.com · 08/09/2025

Shout out to all the CGRA folks, all jokes are in good fun

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Stefan Abi-Karam @stefanabikaram.com · 04/09/2025

I have yet to read “Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach”

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Stefan Abi-Karam @stefanabikaram.com · 16/06/2025

In honor of the upcoming ICLAD conference, here’s a gem from one of the first LLM-for-hardware-design panels that was at ICCAD. How far we have come.

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Stefan Abi-Karam @stefanabikaram.com · 16/06/2025

This is verbatim real review feedback we got for a conference submission

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Stefan Abi-Karam @stefanabikaram.com · 27/04/2025

I lost my department's graduate meme competition this year We live in a fallen world

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Stefan Abi-Karam @stefanabikaram.com · 21/04/2025

Remember kids, FPGA placement is always a quadratic assignment problem

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Stefan Abi-Karam @stefanabikaram.com · 04/03/2025

dam overleaf, you dont have to be that mean, im trying my best 🥹

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Stefan Abi-Karam @stefanabikaram.com · 11/01/2025

Setting up some #llm evals using vLLM, pretty slick experience so far

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Stefan Abi-Karam @stefanabikaram.com · 10/01/2025

This is what using LLMs to design hardware feels like #verilog #FPGA

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Stefan Abi-Karam @stefanabikaram.com · 08/01/2025

Verilog-Eval and RTLLM go brrr... Finally working with local LLM inference after some bugs with vLLM

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Stefan Abi-Karam @stefanabikaram.com · 07/01/2025

Next challenge is this “chain game” knockoff of Triggle which requires tree search (ex. minimax, alpha-beta). For this one I also want to learn how to implement Monte Carlo tree search which would be helpful for my ongoing research work.

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Stefan Abi-Karam @stefanabikaram.com · 07/01/2025

Programmed a solver for this IQ Fit puzzle game using mixed integer programming! Used a combination of Python + PuLP + CBC. Hope to write about it on my website soon!

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Stefan Abi-Karam @stefanabikaram.com · 01/12/2024

This joke is funny until you are sitting in a conference talk and the speaker’s results slide doesn’t look to far off from this

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Stefan Abi-Karam @stefanabikaram.com · 01/12/2024

Favorite fact from the new BobbyBroccoli documentary about cold fusion: Georgia Tech was one of the earliest schools to “reproduce” the U of U results but then redacted their result four days later

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Stefan Abi-Karam @stefanabikaram.com · 30/11/2024

Shoutout to when I discovered that in Xilinx’s Vitis HLS 2023.1, the “help” command causes a segfault

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Stefan Abi-Karam @stefanabikaram.com · 30/11/2024

Anytime a new version of any chip design / EDA tool is released

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Stefan Abi-Karam @stefanabikaram.com · 26/11/2024

Very proud to be the original creator of this #FPGA meme

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Stefan Abi-Karam @stefanabikaram.com · 10/11/2024

Some photos from the setup we have in our lab (Sharc Lab @ Georgia Tech) - 8 PYNQ Boards with Xilinx Zynq-7000s - 4 Xilinx ZCU102 Dev Boards - 3 Raspberry Pis All networked together so we can do multi-FPGA system experiments as well as allow remote access for our FPGA/HLS course and grad students.

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Stefan Abi-Karam @stefanabikaram.com · 10/11/2024

Prototype FPGA placer I wrote to learn Rust. Uses a really basic simulated annealing approach. Hope to integrate into an ongoing research project down the road. #fpga #eda #chipdesign stefanabikaram.com/writing/fpga...

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