I’m an independent computer designer, programmer, and researcher, lately splitting most of my time between contributing to the specification of the new RISC-V ISA and working on an undisclosed RISC-V project. My technical interests include computer architecture (hardware), computer languages, compilers, software support libraries, low-level system software, and computer arithmetic. I’m perhaps best known as the author of Berkeley SoftFloat and TestFloat for floating-point arithmetic. I continue to update my
Besides work, I still regularly play ultimate (frisbee), and I occasionally travel, mostly in Europe. I dabble in photography and graphic art, and I study history on the side.
“Upon us all a little rain must fall.”