Chris Fenton

Chris Fenton

March Madness Day 3 – Hardware is fun!

So as not to leave my fellow hardware engineers unrepresented, I present my entry for day 3 of March Madness: The following code implements (poorly, no doubt) the 64-bit floating point reciprocal approximation unit from the Cray-1 (in Verilog 2001).…

Hack your genome!

As part of our on-going Awesome-August effort, I just completed my FPGA-based DNA sequence alignment accelerator! Behold! This bad boy can reach 1.8 Giga-cell-updates-per-second when aligning two DNA sequences, all while running off of less than 2.5W from a USB…

Tuber Takeover!

Get your tuber on! Introducing the first multiplayer, competitive potato reproduction-simulator to grace the internets. This game lets you compete head to head with a friend to see who’s potato can reproduce the most. It’s multiplayer only, and supports same-computer,…

DIY 1980’s Supercomputer

I’ve always wanted my own supercomputer. Let’s be honest, what self-respecting geek doesn’t? Unfortunately, I’m usually poor, and I live in a space that’s ~300 ft^2 (that I share with someone else), so actually owning anything considered  “super” is out…