saad syed

Projects

Hardware & software builds — FPGA, RTL design, and beyond.

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GEMM on AMD EPYC and Tenstorrent Wormhole

BF16 GEMM kernel hitting 2,879 GFLOPS (93% of theoretical peak) with AVX-512BF16 intrinsics — 44% faster than AMD's AOCL library and 1st on the course leaderboard. Plus a multi-core port to Tenstorrent Wormhole in TT-Metal.

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BERT Encoder on AMD Versal Hard-NoC

Transformer encoder datapath on AMD Versal with 4-head self-attention over parallel AXI-Stream + DMA pipelines — 1.5 GB/s NoC bandwidth at 300 MHz measured in RTL simulation.

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High-Frequency Adders on Intel Agilex-5

Optimized a 2048-bit adder for 41% higher frequency (600→848 MHz) and 25% less area, closing timing with TimeQuest STA via retiming and pipelining across an automated 11-configuration sweep.

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UVM Testbench

A UVM testbench for a data alignment module, featuring a reusable agent class, a model, and a scoreboard. Based off a Udemy course by Cristian Slav.

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GPU Suite

A collection of CUDA mini-projects to learn GPU programming.

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MVM Engine

A matrix-vector multiplication engine implemented in SystemVerilog and deployed on FPGA.

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Tanh Approximation

Hardware approximation of tanh with pipelining for improved performance.

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RISC-V Core

Single-cycle RV32I core built in SystemVerilog and tested with assembly programs.

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Real-Time Executive

A custom RTOS kernel with task scheduling and memory management.

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Shell Jr

Beginner-friendly C++ command line application with custom features.

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CPU Design

A Logisim CPU with basic arithmetic support, tested with Assembly.

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