Ayush Dixit
RTL Design Engineer

Ayush Dixit

Designing hardware for the AI era. Specializing in Deep Learning Accelerators, Low-Precision Arithmetic (FP8/NVFP4), and Hardware Security.

Bangalore, India
Latest Updates
Aug 2025

WECON 2025 Acceptance

Research on "Evaluating Functional Coverage of Accelerator Design for DT-based ML Implementations" accepted.

Jul 2025

VDAT 2025 Presentation

Presented methodology for Security-Aware Lightweight DNN Acceleration at VDAT.

Experience & Education
Full-time May 2025 — Present

RTL Design Engineer

SandLogic ↗

Working on low-precision floating point formats (FP8 E4M3/E5M2, NVFP4) for AI acceleration hardware.

Internship Mar 2024 — Aug 2024

Hardware Intern

Jaitra Inc ↗

Hardware Prototyping of RISC-V Core (Black Parrot RV64GC) on PYNQ-Z2 & ZCU104. Deployed N-gram language models on FPGA.

Fellowship Sep 2022 — Jul 2023

Junior Research Fellow

DRDO ↗

Project: "Development of Hardware Trojan Testing Methodology". Researched security vulnerabilities in IC supply chains.

Education 2023 — 2025

M.Tech in VLSI Design

IIT Jodhpur ↗

Master's Thesis: ML Accelerators for NLP Applications. Link to Thesis

Teaching Assistant: Hardware for AI ,Hardware-Software Co-Design , ASIC LAB.

CGPA: 9.02

Selected Publications (6)
Selected Writing
About Me

Background

I am an RTL Design Engineer with a strong foundation in digital systems, specializing in AI accelerators and secure hardware architectures. My work spans from prototyping RISC-V cores on FPGAs to implementing efficient floating-point arithmetic for neural networks.

Currently at SandLogic, I am diving deep into low-precision arithmetic formats like FP8 and NVFP4 to push the performance boundaries of inference engines.

Philosophy

I believe that great hardware is defined by the balance between area, power, and security. My approach combines rigorous verification methodologies with innovative architectural optimizations to create silicon that is not just fast, but reliable and efficient.

Technical Focus
AI Accelerators
Hardware Security
FPGA Prototyping
Computer Architecture
Get in Touch

Have questions or opportunities?

I'm always open to discussing hardware design, research, or new collaborations. Drop me an email or chat on Discord.