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During my research of Json parsing libraries for C++, I came across simdjson: A library that promises 4x faster parsing than RapidJSON and While this library does indeed perform faster than other C++ JSON libraries, I ran into an issue with maximum single document size when utilizing this library.

There are several separate C++ libraries that provide functionality for handling JSON data, namely JsonCpp and nlohmann/json. Until recently I had only been exposed to nlohmann/json, but I had to get up and running with JsonCpp due to its integration in the Drogon web development framework.

I have recently come across difficulties in utilizing hardware acceleration on Ubuntu 20.04. There are several guides online on how to enable acceleration on Intel GPUs, but in the end I did a distribution upgrade to Ubuntu 21.

Throughout the Summer of 2021, I have been working with developers at the Idea Shop Prototyping Lab to improve upon the functionality and aestetics of the Idea Shop’s Web App interface.

During the Spring 2021 semester, I am exploring Verilog and FPGA implementation of RISC-V CPU cores using the Chipyard Framework. I have been working with one other student, Karl Hallsby, on this project, with the end goal of providing a working implementation of a RISC-V processor implemented on an Arty A7-35T FPGA, and sufficient introductory documentation to create laboratories exploring RISC-V for future courses at IIT

Recently I’ve been attempting to improve my HDL skills, and in going through the related files for the CMU Computer Architecture course (see previous post), I found a very good website for recieving extra practice.

Just went out for some nighttime city shots, and I am thoroughly impressed with the camera experience on the iPhone 12 Pro. I mainly utilized the “night mode” which just does a long exposure, and it performed very well.

I have recently found an archived playlist of lectures for Computer Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University from 2015, seems to be very informational. The only downside is that I cannot expect/receive active feedback and involvement from the faculty member who taught that course.

In an honest effort to improve the quality of my reports, I have decided to switch my report format to incorporate the LaTeX coding language. This will drastically improve the quality of my reports, and prepare me for future technical writing for research papers and my thesis.