Illustrations
It is said that “a picture is worth a thousand words”. I am passionate about crafting well-illustrated system designs and sharing them with the community. When I am not using my computer to sketch using the drawio application, I also love to take notes and sketch diagrams by hand:
All the diagrams below are released under open-standard licenses. So, use them, break them, modify them! Just go ahead as long as you provide the attribution to qsysarch.com. Also, please note that some of the icons in those illustrations need additional attribution to the wonderfull icons8.com repository.
2026-03-28: General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) Kernels
2026-03-22: Capacity and Efficiency Engineering
2025-12-12: Tensor Processing Unit (TPU): High Level System Architecture
2025-11-30: Organizing Complexity: more architecture, less plumbing
2025-11-28: Neuromorphic ICs: High Level System Architecture
2025-10-28: NVQLink: Nvdia's GPU–Quantum Unified System Architecture
2025-10-26: QRAM as the Quantum Bit Array
2025-10-18: GPUDirect RDMA: The life of a RoCE packet
2025-10-08: Quantum Error Correction: The life of a qubit
2025-09-28: Which machine for Quantum Algorithms?
2025-09-23: 3 blue 1 brown: Grover's Algorithm
2025-09-22: RoCEv2: InfiniBand Transport Protocol
2025-09-21: Quantum Entity Component System
2025-09-16: The confusing world of RDMA & InfiniBand
2025-09-12: Using AI to improve quantum systems
