Sushant Mondal

I have a blog.

Co-Founder and Computer Architect, Renvatek Microelectronics. Yes, you heard it right, microelectronics! Although I plan to study Computer Science in higher education, I am already designing RISC-V (an open standard ISA) cores. I am currently building an RV32I core, Renvatek Quartz-1. For now, the focus is on FPGA testing and ASIC research because the creation and verification of the RTL files has been finished. If you are new to the HDL ecosystem, check out my blog post on how to start writing HDL as a total beginner.

My father and I co-founded FireVM.com Hosting. If he had never introduced me to the world of servers, I would never have developed my systems-thinking skills. For now, he manages most of the company and its assets, including the clients. When I am a bit free (which I am finding harder everyday because I am very busy with Renvatek's ventures), I still manage to do some of the FireVM's infrastructure-related tasks (part-time system administrator).

I already read many books by David Baldacci, Eoin Colfer (the Artemis Fowl series), Jeff Kinney (the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series), Roald Dahl, Robin Cook, and many others which will actually complete this exhaustive list. They are not included here because I am just too lazy to add them. Sorry, lol! The list of books (sorted descending by date) I am currently reading (or read):

• Karma: A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny by Sadhguru — August 24, 2026–Present.
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson — August 6, 2026–August 21, 2026. I like the fact that Manson is just brutally honest about himself. He did almost all the things in his past that his present self wrote in his book to not do. The book's pretty informal (hey, literature nerds!).
  • You are neither positively nor negatively (false victim behavior) entitled in any way.

  • Neither expect to get something nor feel obliged to give something just because of love. Page 180:

    Acts of love are valid only if they're performed without conditions or expectations.

  • Death is the only thing that sits at the very last; it's hungrily waiting for some action to be executed so you die. Let go of the life's nitpicks because they aren't worth your time; try achieving the enlightened state of nirvana (page 204). Think of a greater good (for example, advance the society in the fields of science and philosophy). Your physical self will die someday. But you must preserve your conceptual self in the form of children, or by putting your names on buildings, on statues, and on spines of books (page 198). You must pass on your legacy. Page 205:

    Confronting the reality of our own mortality is important because it obliterates all the crappy, fragile, superficial values in life. While most people whittle their days chasing another buck, or a little bit more fame and attention, or a little bit more assurance that they're right or loved, death confronts all of us with a far more painful and important question: What is your legacy?

    How will the world be different and better when you're gone? What mark will you have made? What influence will you have caused? They say that a butterfly flapping its wings in Africa can cause a hurricane in Florida; well, what hurricanes will you leave in your wake?

Miscellaneous stuff (unordered):

• Besides computer architecture, space science, especially cosmology, is my secondary hobby.
• Self-hosted FOSS applications > SaaS applications.
• I play chess on Chess.com and lichess.org. I strongly prefer to play my solid repertoire consisting of Ruy Lopez as White and French Defense as Black.
• I like cold vanilla/hazelnut (dilute) coffee.
• I use AlmaLinux 9.8 for my business servers (remote cloud) and openSUSE Leap 16.0 for my personal workstation (local).
• Find all my public YouTube Music playlists at my YouTube Music channel.
• If I could found a non-profit organization in the future, one of the first causes would be to dedicate it to the literacy upliftment of the farmers of India (agriculture is India's one of the strongholds). Hopefully farmer literacy will bring back some of the good ol' moments of the golden age of India.
• I love to play Wordle by The New York Times. Tip: Use the word SALET as an opener. I personally prefer this because the information theory behind it leans towards this word specifically.