Engineering Notes

Case studies from 18+ years of chip design and infrastructure engineering — the debugging process, not just the result. Unlock individual articles, or subscribe for everything.

Closing a Chip-Blocking Equivalence Problem to 0 NEQ

How I root-caused a hierarchical LEC failure everyone else had given up on, and shipped a FULL-EQ verdict with zero manual pin-constraints.

Directing an AI Agent Through Production RTL, Not Just Autocomplete

What changes when you point an autonomous coding agent at real chip sign-off work instead of boilerplate — and what 20+ iterations on a production ISP module actually looked like.