Building an OTA System Changed How I Think About Engineering
The biggest challenge wasn't delivering updates. It was designing what happens when things go wrong.
Latest·4 min read·Jul 5 2026·Read on Medium→
Abdul Aleem
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Thoughts on engineering, embedded systems, VLSI and things I learn while building.
Projects show the final system. Writing is where I compile the thoughts that built it.
Closed-Loop RTL Verification: Replicating Cadence ChipStack with Local Multi-Agent Orchestration
What if a local team of AI agents could automate your RTL verification workflow?
6 min read·May 26 2026·Read on Medium→
Streaming Transformer Attention on a Budget FPGA: Achieving 5.6x Speedup with a Cycle-Accurate Tiled Architecture
Building a transformer accelerator taught me that architecture matters more than clock speed.
15 min read·May 25 2026·Read on Medium→
Why Verilog Felt Confusing at First — And How I Fixed It
The language wasn't difficult. My learning path was.
4 min read·Feb 26 2026·Read on Medium→