Kasırga Ateş
Overview
Team Leader, Custom digital processor design. Teknofest 2024 Digital Processor Category, 2nd place in Turkey.
Kasırga Ateş is a high-performance digital processor designed from scratch using Verilog, optimized for efficient execution of complex computational workloads. Developed as part of the Kasırga Microprocessors Laboratory's Teknofest competition team, the project earned 2nd place nationwide in the Digital Processor category and won the "Best Team Spirit" award. The processor design was validated on FPGA and demonstrated outstanding performance metrics in benchmark testing.
Features
- Custom pipelined processor architecture
- Optimized Verilog implementation for speed and resource efficiency
- FPGA validation and testing
- Award-winning performance at Teknofest 2024
- Collaborative development within a multi-disciplinary engineering team
The Kasırga Ateş Crew
Here we are, the Kasırga Ateş team, after our big win at Teknofest. All those hours spent in the lab definitely paid off. We managed to snag 2nd place in Turkey for our processor design and even won the 'Best Team Spirit' award on top of that. It was an awesome experience from start to finish. This picture pretty much sums up the feeling of accomplishment.
Pipeline All-Nighter
This was a pretty standard night for me. I was in the lab until morning trying to get our processor's pipeline set up and debugged. It was a serious grind, but those late nights were where we really built the core of our award-winning processor.
Balcony Breaks
This picture is pretty much what my breaks looked like during the processor design marathon. Late at night, the tech center balcony was super quiet and my favorite place to be. I'd just step outside, have some tea, and look out over the courtyard. It was the perfect reset after getting stuck on a complex part of the design. A simple break, but it was essential to keep the project moving.
Berlin Office, Turkey Team
My remote office (BWK courtyard) in Berlin. While I was doing my internship, my some nights were for the Kasırga Ateş team. This was me in the apartment courtyard, deep into writing our detailed project report for the Teknofest competition. A lot of late hours went into this project from all over.
