Yash Sharda

ECE Undergrad

Hi, I'm Yash — a 3rd year ECE student, and most of my time goes into hardware. FPGAs are my main thing. Getting my first dev board was genuinely one of those moments that changed how I think about building things. Since then I've been hooked — SoCs, MCUs, FPGAs, ARM boards — I love getting my hands on different hardware and figuring out what makes each one tick.

About me

Picked ECE since hardware just made sense to me. Started out with the basics — microcontrollers, simple circuits, just figuring out how stuff actually works. Then I got a Vaaman board and it got me really hooked. Like building hardware itself. FPGAs are super niche, but that's the point.

Been looking at more general ECE stuff lately — digital design, communication, control systems, analog. Analog is brutal. It never behaves how you want it to, and it takes forever to get a real feel for it. But you gotta understand it if you want to work with real hardware and not just theory.

Not entirely sure what's next. Just want to keep working close to the metal — FPGAs, embedded. For now, just working on whatever is hard enough to keep me busy.

Now

Tiny YOLO on FPGA

Building a real-time object detection pipeline on the Zynq-7020. The idea is to run the full Tiny YOLO inference in hardware — I'm designing the convolution engine from scratch in RTL rather than using a vendor IP, with the PL handling all the conv layers and the PS doing box decoding and NMS.

Also learning PCB design.

Things I want

Oscilloscope
Camera
Zynq board

Blog

hmm I'm writing it.