We're excited to introduce "Vaquita - RISC V Vector Core," a project developed by our dedicated students at MERL under the guidance of Research Assistant Talha Ahmed. In this initial release, our students have achieved significant milestones, including mastering the Zvl128b architecture, implementing essential arithmetic and configuration instructions, and applying advanced masking techniques for efficient data processing within vectors. "Vaquita Core" is now open-source, and we invite everyone to collaborate and contribute to this exciting initiative. Join us in celebrating this groundbreaking endeavor, and a big shoutout to our talented students: Hamna Mohiuddin (Lead), Maira Usman, Hafsa Shoaib, Abdul Samad Siddiqui, Syed Hassan ul Haq, Saad Ali, and Latif Bhatti! 🌟🌊 #MERL #VaquitaCore

Our Researcher at MERL and 4 semester software engineering student at UIT University got selected in The Linux Foundation Mentorship for Summer 2023 offered by Open Mainframe Project. He will be working on the project "Open Mainframe - Zowe Python SDK Enhancements" for the next 3 month. Congratulations to him from entire Team MERL for such remarkable achievement in such early stage of his studies. MERL is touching new milestones with every new achievement, truly a positive outcome of our open source ecosystem implementation. Congratulations to Abdul Samad Siddiqui of Batch-21B SE, wishing you a good luck with this new endeavor.

We'd like to announce that 4 of our researchers from Micro Electronics Research Lab (MERL) at UIT University has been selected in Google Summer of Code this year. On behalf of entire Team MERL We Congratulate Abdul Muheet Ghani and Qurrat ul ain Alam from department of Electrical Engineering of Batch-19B at UIT and Mahnoor Ismail and Shahzaib Kashif from department of Computer Science of Batch-18B of UIT for this remarkable achievement. MERL's mission is to enable Pakistani students to be part of the International Ecosystem where the actual Inventions are being done, So these students can be a medium for making Pakistan more prosperous in front of the World. Well wishes to these 4 individuals from entire MERL Team and Best of Luck for the Future.

We'd like to announce that 4 of our researchers from Micro Electronics Research Lab (MERL) at UIT University has been selected in Google Summer of Code this year. On behalf of entire Team MERL We Congratulate Abdul Muheet Ghani and Qurrat ul ain Alam from department of Electrical Engineering of Batch-19B at UIT and Mahnoor Ismail and Shahzaib Kashif from department of Computer Science of Batch-18B of UIT for this remarkable achievement. MERL's mission is to enable Pakistani students to be part of the International Ecosystem where the actual Inventions are being done, So these students can be a medium for making Pakistan more prosperous in front of the World. Well wishes to these 4 individuals from entire MERL Team and Best of Luck for the Future.

We'd like to announce that 4 of our researchers from Micro Electronics Research Lab (MERL) at UIT University has been selected in Google Summer of Code this year. On behalf of entire Team MERL We Congratulate Abdul Muheet Ghani and Qurrat ul ain Alam from department of Electrical Engineering of Batch-19B at UIT and Mahnoor Ismail and Shahzaib Kashif from department of Computer Science of Batch-18B of UIT for this remarkable achievement. MERL's mission is to enable Pakistani students to be part of the International Ecosystem where the actual Inventions are being done, So these students can be a medium for making Pakistan more prosperous in front of the World. Well wishes to these 4 individuals from entire MERL Team and Best of Luck for the Future.

We'd like to announce that 4 of our researchers from Micro Electronics Research Lab (MERL) at UIT University has been selected in Google Summer of Code this year. On behalf of entire Team MERL We Congratulate Abdul Muheet Ghani and Qurrat ul ain Alam from department of Electrical Engineering of Batch-19B at UIT and Mahnoor Ismail and Shahzaib Kashif from department of Computer Science of Batch-18B of UIT for this remarkable achievement. MERL's mission is to enable Pakistani students to be part of the International Ecosystem where the actual Inventions are being done, So these students can be a medium for making Pakistan more prosperous in front of the World. Well wishes to these 4 individuals from entire MERL Team and Best of Luck for the Future.

Our Research Intern at MERL and 5th semester Computer Science student at UIT University got selected in The Linux Foundation Mentorship for Spring 2023 offered by RISC-V International. He will be working on the project "Adding Single Precision Floating Point (F) extension in NuclrusRV Core" for the next 3 months. Congratulations to him from entire Team Micro Electronics Research Lab for such remarkable achievement. MERL is touching new milestones with every new achievement, truly a positive outcome of our open source ecosystem implementation. Congratulations to Shayan Baig of Batch-20B CS, wishing you a good luck with this new endeavor.

Our Research Assistant at MERL and Software Engineering Graduate of UIT University got selected in The Linux Foundation Mentorship for Spring 2023 offered by RISC-V International. He will be working on the project "Implement Tilelink Uncached Heavyweight (TL-UH) in Caravan Framework" for the next 3 months. Congratulations to him from entire Team Micro Electronics Research Lab for such remarkable achievement. MERL is touching new milestones with every new achievement, truly a positive outcome of our open source ecosystem implementation. Congratulations to Mohsin Siddiqui of Batch-18B SE, wishing you a good luck with this new endeavor.

Micro Electronics Research Lab (MERL) is Mentoring 2 Projects in The Linux Foundation Mentorships by RISC-V International this Spring. Project 01: Adding Single Precision Floating Point (F) extension in NucleusRV Core Mentors: Usman Zain ul Abedin, Talha Ahmed, Shahzaib Kashif. Link: https://lnkd.in/d52fYf2u Project 02: Implement Tilelink Uncached Heavyweight (TL-UH) in Caravan Framework Mentors: Muhammad Hadir Khan, Shahzaib Kashif Link: https://lnkd.in/dXn4sQUA Applications are Open from today (10th January) til 7th February. Interested Candidates are encouraged to apply via LFX Mentorships Portal.

We are pleased to inform that Shahzaib Kashif , a Research Assistant at MERL-UITU and a CHISEL Developer at Intensivate, will be speaking at the "RISC-V Mentorship Showcase for 2022 Programs." This virtual event is being held by RISC-V International to highlight all the mentorships that have influenced the RISC-V Ecosystem. Shahzaib Kashif is a Software Engineer from the UIT University's 2018 batch. Since his second semester, he has been involved with MERL and has contributed to a number of international and MERL projects. He was selected for the RISC-V Mentorship Programme for the Spring period (March to May, 2022). In the project "Adding RISC-V RV64G Support in AOSP 12 Emulator," he was chosen as a mentor's mentee. Bravo to you. Good luck in your future endeavors from the whole MERL team.

Our Research Intern Kinza Qamar Zaman has successfully completed the Google Summer of Code 2022 on project "Tiny Parrot" . Many Congratulations to her from the entire team of MERL upon her such tremendous achievement. She definitely has the potential to achieve everything she desires. She has such an amazing level of enthusiasm, creativity and dedication. We all wish her success in her future endeavors

Our Research Assistant Shahzaib Kashif has recently been hired as a CHISEL Developer at Intensivate, a Berkeley based start-up that aims to design the World’s Most Efficient Analytics Processor. Shahzaib Kashif, who is a Software Engineer of Batch-2018 from UIT University and has been working as a Research Assistant in MERL-UITU, has around 3 years of experience in designing RISC-V based core using Constructing Hardware in Scala Embedded Language (CHISEL) HDL. He has also been selected as a Mentee in Linux Foundation (LFX) Mentorship Programme by RISC-V for his project "Porting AOSP 12 Emulator to RISC-V RV64G". On behalf of the entire MERL team, we would like to congratulate Shahzaib on his new position and wish him the best of luck in his future ventures.

Our Research Intern Talha Ahmed has successfully completed the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2022 on project "OpenRegFile" . Many Congratulations to him from the entire team of MERL upon his such tremendous achievement. He definitely has the potential to achieve everything he desires. He has such an amazing level of enthusiasm, creativity and dedication. We all wish him success in his future endeavors.

Our Research Intern Nameer Iqbal has successfully completed the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2022 on project "Add FuseSoC support at SoC level for Azadi SoC" . Many Congratulations to him from the entire team of MERL upon his such tremendous achievement. He definitely has the potential to achieve everything he desires. He has such an amazing level of enthusiasm, creativity and dedication. We all wish him success in his future endeavors.

Our Research Intern shahzaib kashif has successfully completed the 3 months duration Linux Foundation Mentorship by RISC-V on project "Porting AOSP 12 to RISC-V RV64GC" . Many Congratulations to him from the entire team of MERL upon his such tremendous achievement. He definitely has the potential to achieve everything he desires. He has such an amazing level of enthusiasm, creativity and dedication. We all wish him success in his future endeavors.