Michael Taylor
Professor at University of Washington - Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Taylor is a Professor and CTO who builds and ships cutting-edge silicon research, combining deep academic credentials (PhD MIT) with commercial impact in multicore processors, accelerators, and ASIC clouds. He led the MIT Raw multicore project, authored seminal work on dark silicon and bitcoin ASICs, and has driven record-breaking RISC-V manycore tapeouts in advanced FinFET nodes. As director of the Bespoke Silicon Group and a DARPA-funded lead, he bridges prototype silicon (including a 511-core and a 2048-core open design) with practical datacenter innovations like Chiplet Cloud and ASIC Clouds. Michael’s hands-on style — from SystemVerilog open-source cores (BlackParrot) to vision and ML benchmark suites — makes him as fluent in CAD/tooling and compilers as in device-era process corners. Based in Seattle, he maintains an active consulting practice and an uncommon track record of predicting and influencing industry moves such as TPUs and video transcoding ASIC deployment.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAB, Computer Science, AB, Computer Science at Dartmouth CollegeCessna 152’s, KFUL, KLGB, Cessna 152’s, KFUL, KLGB at AFI Flight TrainingThe Hotchkiss School
English, French, systemverilog
Github Skills (93)
risc10
aix10
zynq10
systemverilog10
canopen10
stl10
async9
architecture9
linux9
multicore9
verilog9
vlsi9
compiler-design9
microchip9
panic9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bespoke-silicon-group/bsg_ddr3_io
Dec 2021 - Mar 2023
BaseJump DDR3 I/O Design
Contributions:1 review, 12 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 2 months
rdmainfinibandddr3
bespoke-silicon-group/bsg_newlib_dramfs
Sep 2019 - Nov 2021
newlib, but with a dram-based file system using LittleFS! Also known as Panic Room.
Contributions:2 reviews, 11 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 2 months
drampanicfile-basedlinuxroom
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