Muzaffer Kal
Principal Silicon Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMuzaffer Kal is a Principal Silicon Engineer with over a decade of experience architecting custom SoCs and accelerators for computer vision and machine learning, spanning ASIC and FPGA implementations. He leads cross-functional teams through RTL-to-GDSII flows at advanced nodes, combining Verilog/SystemVerilog expertise with Python DSLs, UVM verification, and full back-end implementation including timing, CTS, LVS and DRC. Muzaffer has driven novel ML arithmetic standardization work (including FP8 and new 752 efforts) and has shipped CIM/IMC accelerator blocks and RISC-V co-designed systems that push power and efficiency boundaries. His background in sensor integration and low-power VIO systems gives him uncommon depth across mixed-signal, memory, and algorithm-hardening for embedded inference. Currently shaping next-generation MAIA AI accelerator architecture, he blends hands-on RTL design with systems-level product thinking to deliver silicon that materially improves ML compute density.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS EE, BS EE at Boğaziçi University
Github Skills (50)
verilog10
systemverilog9
receptive-field9
simulator9
systemc9
lint9
sdk9
verilator9
cpp9
flops8
clang8
toolchain8
verification8
hardware8
modular8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
muzafferkal/axi-bfm
Aug 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
muzafferkal/torch-scan
Mar 2023 - May 2023
Seamless analysis of your PyTorch models (RAM usage, FLOPs, MACs, receptive field, etc.)
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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