Monthly Archives: March 2025

This week I had a nice discussion on Smart Pointer versus RUST. My takeaways are the following. Feature C++ Smart Pointers Rust Ownership & Borrowing(also has SmartPointer) Goal Manage dynamic memory with RAII – “Resource Acquisition Is Initialization” Ensure memory … Continue reading →

Abstract In the context of safety-critical applications on SoC architectures, safety monitoring is having a revival and gaining increasing importance. ARM Reference Design 1 (RD1) implements a three-level approach to runtime monitoring of functional software, aiming at cost-efficient separation between … Continue reading →

In modern large language models (LLMs), tokenizers break down a given input (i.e., a prompt) into smaller units called tokens. For example, the sentence “The OEMs vehicle features are defined by software” would be split into tokens – e.g., every … Continue reading →