How to Get Root Access to Your Sleep Number Bed
A guide to gaining root access to your Sleep Number bed hub and setting up a local network control and monitoring server.
Writing on software design, hardware verification, and everything in-between.
All of my long-form thoughts (that I felt were interesting enough to record) on programming, verification, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
Make Way for a Better Build Tool: Software Construction with SCons
SCons is an alternative to the classic Make utility with features such as automatic dependency analysis and high extensibility through Python scripting. Originally published at SNUG Silicon Valley 2024.
Four Problems with Policy-Based Constraints and How to Fix Them
A paper discussing solutions to problems encountered in the original implementation of policy classes for SystemVerilog constraint layering. Originally presented at DVCon US 2024.
How to Overcome Editor Envy: Why Can't My Editor Do That?
This paper outlines the desired features of a SystemVerilog editor environment and makes the case for implementing this functionality in the Language Server Protocol. Originally presented at DVCon US 2021
SystemVerilog Configurations and Tool Flow Using SCons (an Improved Make)
A two-part paper diving deep into how to use SystemVerilog configurations and a tutorial on creating custom SCons tools to supercharge vendor tool flows. Originally presented at DVCon US 2020.