\section{Research}\label{sec:Research} \subsection{Village Project}, \Location{\NU{}, Evanston, IL} \hfill \DatetoPresent{2022}{06}{01}\\ \Advisor{\href{https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/directory/profiles/dinda-peter.html}{Dr.\ Peter Dinda}}\\ \emph{Student Researcher --- \href{http://presciencelab.org/}{Prescience Lab}} \hfill {~} \begin{notopsepitemize} \item Helped implement back-end \href{https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/865063}{VCODE} code generation for an LLVM-based compiler \item Identified \href{https://riscv.org}{RISC-V} \href{https://github.com/riscv/riscv-v-spec/releases/tag/v1.0}{V-extension} as good candidate for VCODE acceleration \item Designed VCODE accelerator as RoCC coprocessor in \href{https://chisel-lang.org}{Chisel} and integrated with \href{https://chipyard.readthedocs.io/en/stable}{Chipyard} \item Implemented both unit tests and baremetal full-program tests for coprocessor \end{notopsepitemize} \subsection{Virtine Accelerator}, \Location{\IIT{}, Chicago, IL} \hfill \Daterange{2021}{06}{01}{2021}{08}{31}\\ \Advisor{\href{https://www.iit.edu/directory/people/kyle-hale}{Dr.\ Kyle Hale}}\\ \emph{\href{http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/grants/BigDataX/2021/index.html}{Student Researcher} --- \href{http://mystic.cs.iit.edu/}{Mystic}} \hfill {~} \begin{notopsepitemize} \item Created FPGA design to accelerate virtual machine clean-up, branching off of work another Ph.~D student completed \item Developed \textsc{Linux} PCIe kernel module to initialize and communicate with flashed hardware design \item Exposed FPGA capabilities as character device for programmer interaction \item Wrote \href{https://www.qemu.org/}{QEMU} device to emulate physical device's behavior and validate kernel module functionality \end{notopsepitemize} %%% Local Variables: %%% mode: latex %%% TeX-master: "Hallsby_Karl" %%% End: