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The Swedish research institute RI.SE hosted an “Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science day” (AI and CS day) last week. RI.SE has a long tradition of hosting interesting open houses, both as RI.SE and in their previous guide as SiCS. The day was a mix of organized talks in the morning, and an open house where … Continue reading “RI.SE AI Day – More on LLMs (and some)”
I just saw in UNT that an old colleague of mine, Olle Gällmo, (his personal website is at olle.gallmo.se) professor in Computer Science, has been appointed “Riksspelman”. Which is a very high accolade for a folk musician. I know that Olle has been working on his bagpiping (if that is the word to use) for … Continue reading “Off-topic: Olle Gällmo, Riksspelman”
Last week, I gave a keynote at the RAPIDO workshop, part of the HiPEAC 2026 conference taking place in Kraków, Poland. HiPEAC is a computer architecture conference with a rather wild-grown set of simultaneous workshops in addition to a main-stage paper program. It is an event for presenting research, EU projects, and for companies to … Continue reading “The HiPEAC 2026 Conference”
I have now posted my first blog post in the Cadence Community. It was just a matter of time after the VLAB team got acquired by Cadence earlier in 2025 I guess. The topic is the SDV Europe conference that happened in the first few days of December 2025.
The 62nd Design Automation Conference (DAC 62) took place in San Francisco, California, USA, from June 22 to 25, 2025. It was the first time in three years that I attended the DAC (this blog is a little bit late, sorry for that). For those that do not know, the DAC is the biggest show … Continue reading “DAC 2025 – All About AI”
I am coming back to my project of testing AI models, local and in the cloud, on a few coding problems that seem surprisingly difficult. The models I used in my previous posts (analyze code, write code, reason about code) were mostly from the US or China, even though I did try the French Mistral-7B … Continue reading “Testing Mistral Le Chat (Coding and Understanding Code)”
I reprised my gig from last year and taught the course Platform-Spanning Systems at Uppsala university during the first quarter of 2025. It is always fun to get back the university and enjoy the atmosphere and the enthusiasm and fearlessness of students. The course went better than last year (in my opinion), in part thanks … Continue reading “Teaching Platform-Spanning Systems Again”
Last week, I visited the Embedded World (2025). Only the exhibition, not the conference part. It was great to be back again, meeting old friends and making new acquaintances in the embedded business. I already told you the dramatic story of how I got there. This blog is about what I saw at the show … Continue reading “What I Saw at the Embedded World 2025”
The fifth CaSA, Computer and System Architecture Unraveled, meetup took place on January 30. We finally gave in and joined the AI hype train, resulting in an event with a somewhat different audience and different discussions. More society and applications, less computer architecture. Our two presenters were Håkan Zeffer from SambaNova Systems and Björn Forsberg … Continue reading ““Unusual Perspectives on AI” – Computer and System Architecture Unraveled Event Five”
“Reasoning” models have become popular as a way to expand the capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Such models take more time “considering” a prompt and iterating it through the model several times, with the goal of mimicking how a human might go about solving a problem by breaking it down into steps. I tried … Continue reading “(Local) AI, Please Reason about Code”
My previous blog post in this series tested the ability of a range of large language models to analyze a piece of C code and determine what a mystery function did. That was interesting and entertaining, but possibly not a particularly “fair” test of the models’ capabilities. Most of time, I think people use “AI” … Continue reading “(Local) AI, Please Write some Code”
Continuing my exploration of what a local AI model can do, I decided to test them on the task of code analysis. It would be so nice to have an AI model that is tuned and trained on a particular tool or programming system, and that can be distributed for users to run on their … Continue reading “(Local) AI, Please Explain This Code”
In my previous blog post about the Intel AI Playground, I tested it by asking it to draw cars. In this post, I share some more exploration of these local AI models and their limitations. Turns out that cars are easy, other things not so much…
I recently built a new desktop computer, featuring an Intel ARC 770 graphics card (just to be different). The card is supported by the Intel AI Playground, which is a software package that makes it dead easy to run AI/large language models (LLM) locally on my GPU. I was curious as to just what this … Continue reading “Hi Local AI, Draw Me …”
The 2024 DVCon (Design and Verification) Europe conference took place on October 15 and 16, in its traditional location at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre. This year there was even more talk of artificial intelligence than last year, and quite a few sessions related to virtual platforms. And lots of other interesting presentations and … Continue reading “DVCon Europe 2024 – AI and More”