Kuan-Yu Chen
Kuan-Yu Chen received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2018, and the M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2020 and 2024, respectively. He is currently working as a Senior Design Engineer with Tenstorrent USA, Inc. His research interests include computer architecture, domain-specific programmable accelerators, and digital circuit design.
Session
We present Octlot , an open-source project adding vector extension support to Berkeley's BOOM out-of-order RISC-V core. In our latest v2 ("Bobcat") release, we adopted the Open Vector Interface from SemiDynamics, allowing the vector unit to be decoupled from the core and significantly boosting unit-stride memory performance through coalescing. Octlot's development was accelerated by open-source tools such as Tenstorrent's Whisper simulator and Riescue test suite, showcasing how collaboration in the RISC-V ecosystem drives rapid hardware innovation. We invite the community to collaborate and help shape the future of open-source vector computing!