Silicon Notes

Notes on computer architecture, operating systems, and the hardware side of AI — written to bridge the gap between textbook abstractions and what actually happens on the chip.

Topics

Architecture

CPU pipelines, caches, coherence, and the hardware that runs your code.

  1. CPU Fundamentals
  2. Memory Hierarchy
  3. Cache Coherence

OS Concepts

Virtual memory, scheduling, syscalls — the kernel-level machinery.

  1. Virtual Memory
  2. Process Scheduling
  3. System Calls

AI Optimization

SIMD, GPU architecture, quantization — making models run fast on real silicon.

  1. SIMD & Vectorization
  2. GPU Architecture
  3. Quantization for Inference