Matthew Chen
ECE @UWaterloo
> I'm Matthew!
Recently ðŠī
- studying Electrical Engineering @UWaterloo
- interned at Marvell, developing hyperscaler interconnect
- experimenting with fpgas as a researcher
- helping lead a stealth silicon project
- experimenting with piano improv
Things I like ðĄ
- computer arch: RISC-V cores and GPU architecture
- mixed-sig/analog design, physical implementations of computing
- neat applications of DSP
- the quest for the perfect mechanical pencil
"Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do."
— Richard Feynman
Selected Projects
Project
In Progress âïļ
> ThetaCore: RISC-V CPU Core
A 5-stage pipelined RISC-V R32I single-core processor with SRAM and branching capabilities, constructed from scratch
Project
> TinyTapeout SPI/PWM Peripheral
A SPI-communication PHY for control of a PWM module, synthesized with the TinyTapeout PDK
Project
> Media Control Ground-Up Keyboard
A custom Spotify control Stream Deck designed from scratch: PCB design, firmware implementation, and case modelling
Experience
ASIC Design Team â UWASIC
Designing custom silicon ðĪŦ
Undergraduate Research Assistant â UWaterloo
Using Xilinx FPGAs to accelerate transport-layer protocol
ASIC Design Verification Intern â Marvell Technology
Writing UVM for formal verification of Terabit optical retimer
ASIC Digital Design Intern â Intel
Developed 100Gb/s SerDes simulations for 1.8nm silicon behavior verification
Electrical Member â Midnight Sun Solar Car Team
Worked on stable battery management PCB with hysteresis, FET power smoothing, and low-pass filtering (shoutout Evan)
Machine Learning Research Intern â University of Toronto
Researched CNN-based anomaly detection for transmission relays