ENGINEERING NOTES

Working knowledge, kept close to the code.

Concise technical notes from local AI, firmware, and low-level systems work.

Validating work on AMD XDNA1A practical validation pattern for separating NPU execution from CPU orchestration and checking correctness before performance claims.

A reproducible firmware research workflowHow I structure firmware extraction and reverse-engineering notes so every conclusion can be traced back to an artifact.

Where local AI accelerator boundaries really areA systems view of local inference: tokenization, orchestration, memory movement, kernels, and why an NPU result is more than a single throughput number.