Michael Melanson

A software implementation of a RISC-V processor. It passes the compliance tests for the base instruction set and over 90% of compliance tests for three of the most common extensions. It can execute simple programs compiled via GCC and Selfie, a simple RISC-V compiler for C.

The web is great, but it was designed around showing hyperlinked documents. What if the web technologies were designed primarily for applications instead of documents and with the benefit of hindsight?

This project implements a custom TCP-based network protocol, a server-side application development framework, and a desktop client.

This side project implements a model of an artificial neural network that's fairly biologically plausible while still being computationally efficient. It includes implementing a neural model with synaptic transmission and a simple learning model implementing spike-timing-dependent plasticity.

I hypothesize that it should simulate a "brain" of similar complexity to a roundworm (C. Elegans) on a typical desktop machine, allowing it to learn to do practical tasks such as operating a simulated robot car.

This project involved implementing the basic features of an operating system. I wrote components such as UEFI loading, PCI discovery, physical memory management, heap allocation, system calls, graphical output, and partial support for disk access in this and other projects.