Concise monthly summary for EPFL-LAP/dynamatic (March 2026): Key features delivered include LSQ bypass configurability, LSQ store path refactor with conflict-optimization across all pipeline configurations, and test stability improvements with Atax integration tests adjusted to integers. Major bugs fixed include memory-ordering conflict checks that now ignore completed ops and cleanup of LSQ ordering/port information generation. Overall impact: increased runtime tunability, reduced stalls due to accurate dependency checks, and improved test reliability, all while maintaining backward compatibility. Technologies demonstrated: memory subsystem design (LSQ), pipeline configuration unification, hazard detection optimization, and test engineering.

February 2026 monthly summary for EPFL-LAP/dynamatic: Delivered stability and maintainability enhancements to the LSQ generator. Refactored to remove code duplication across pipeline configurations and standardized line endings to LF, ensuring consistent behavior and easier future maintenance without altering functionality. Verified through CI/integration tests across all pipeline configurations.

March 2025 highlights: Expanded Spatz vector capabilities with added width-increasing arithmetic and improved instruction decoding, complemented by strengthened testing and reliability across hardware and the riscvTests framework. Key features delivered include vector widening arithmetic support for vwadd, vwaddu, vwsub, vwsubu in both vector-vector (vv) and vector-scalar (vx) forms, along with decoding updates and test enablement. Major bugs fixed include improvements to the vsetvli test in riscvTests (avl = -1 scenario) and macro correctness fixes for XCMP/FCMP, plus enhancements to test harness error reporting. A Spatz VFU scalar masking fix ensures results are masked using the correct instruction metadata, improving data integrity. Overall impact: expanded vector execution pathways, higher validation quality, and reduced risk for vector workloads, enabling more performant kernels and safer rollouts. Technologies/skills demonstrated include RISC-V vector extensions, instruction decoding, hardware-software integration, VFU masking, and riscvTests-based validation.

February 2025: Focused on stabilizing the Spatz hardware control path by addressing a VL length computation bug in the Spatz Controller. The fix prevents VL values from exceeding VLMAX when AVL equals 0xffffffff, eliminating an unnecessary special-case branch and reducing risk of misconfiguration in runtime control. This change improves reliability of the VL setting path, lowers incidence of control-plane errors, and reinforces overall system robustness for the Spatz repository.