docs(dn): Ibrahim Hashim 03/08/26 (#505)

* docs(dn): Ibrahim Hashim 03/08/26

* docs(dn): Ibrahim Hashim 3/15/2026

* docs(dn): Ibrahim Hashim 3/29/2026

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Co-authored-by: Ibrahim <ibrorhash@gmail.com>

Author: ihash123

src/design_notebooks/2026spring/irh8156.md

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   * Went over onboarding labs 1-4.
 
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-  * I created my first design notebook and submitted my first pull request of the semester.
+  * I created my first design notebook and submitted my first pull request of the semester.
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+## Week of 1 Feb 2026
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+Project Work: 
+ * Made sure I knew and rememebered everything from onboarding labs 1-4. 
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+## Week of 8 Feb 2026
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+Project Work:
+* Had no assigned work for this week.
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+## Week of 15 Feb 2026
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+Project Work:
+* Had a team meeting this week,
+* Went over the NYU Processor Design Team SoC CPU Core report
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+Notes on the report:
+* The overall design of the CPU is a 32 bit CPU using the RISC-V 32 instruction set
+* It has a regular 5 stage pipeline like we took in comparch
+* It uses a 2 bit branch predictor
+* Its data cache is 2 way associative
+* A question I have is if a different type of branch predictor would improve the performance of the CPU, specificially something more advanced, and what tradeoffs implementing something like that would have
+* Why don't we use data forwarding when the hazard detection stalls the pipeline using NOPs?
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+## Week of 22 Feb 2026
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+Project Work: 
+* Went over the Design and Construction of RTL Toolchains at NYU report
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+Notes on the report:
+* Cmake is the main tool used for building and similation
+* vcpkg handles dependencies and catch2 gives us the testing framework
+* A question I have: Are there things that are easier/more accurate to test in HDL that become harder when everything's in C++?
+* If we're depending to heavily on verilator, isn't it risky to put all our hope in this 1 tool since it could have bugs or limitations?
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+## Week of 1 Mar 2026
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+Project Work:
+* Chose a subteam for the main project (core)
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+## Week of 8 Mar 2026
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+Project Work:
+* No work assigned. Watched some videos about Von Neumann Architecture.
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+## Week of 15 Mar 2026
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+Project Work:
+* Spring break! :)
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+## Week of 22 Mar 2026
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+Project Work:
+* No work assigned.
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+## Week of 29 Mar 2026
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+Project Work:
+* Could not attend this week's meeting due to roommate injuring his ankle, so I do not have a team.
+* For final project, I researched what an MPW was, and found that using one can reduce the cost of prototyping to 10 or 5% of the original price, which is a steep discount. I am still researching ways for us to implement this.