Selected published papers and articles. All open access on Zenodo
(DOI-citable, archival).
Engineering
Hardware
Safety Methodology for Electronic Systems — A Practical Guide
A. Novickis, 2026. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19349162
A practitioner’s guide to hardware functional safety: how the V-model
maps to ISO 26262, IEC 61508, IEC 62304, and DO-254; what artefacts an
assessor expects; how to actually run an FMEDA without drowning in
spreadsheets. Aimed at engineers who need to ship a safety case, not
just read about one.
Probabilistic
Fault Metrics and Signal Jitter — A Unified Mathematical Treatment
A. Novickis, 2026. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19349165
Connects the probabilistic fault metrics used in functional safety
(PMHF, SPFM, LFM) to the statistics of timing jitter on high-speed
signal paths. Same mathematics shows up in both worlds; this paper
writes them down in one place and shows how to use the connection during
design reviews.
Mapping ML Workloads to Silicon — Accelerator Architectures and a Phase-Adaptive, SRAM-First Design
A. Novickis, 2026. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21082396
A framework mapping ML workloads to the silicon that serves them best: hierarchical roofline analysis showing inference is bound by memory bandwidth and data-movement energy — not peak FLOPS — and a memory-first accelerator design (FMCT) combining a phase-adaptive compute tile, a fused non-linear datapath, compute-in-memory as a selectable mode, and an inline KV-cache compression engine, with a validated ~4–7× batch-1 efficiency model. The technical foundation behind the safety-instrumented soft-IP in the Safety Soft-IP catalog.
Inline Hardware KV-Cache Compression for Long-Context Transformer Inference
A. Novickis, 2026. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21230429
An architectural case for a small, fixed-function hardware block that compresses the transformer KV-cache inline on the memory datapath — at line rate, zero accelerator FLOPs — to extend context length and relieve memory bandwidth on any inference accelerator. A functional-safety-instrumented variant is available in the Safety Soft-IP catalog.
Physics (independent
research)
The
Toroidal Electron — A Unified Geometric Theory of Electromagnetism
A. Novickis, 2026. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19581387
(Paper I in the Hopf Soliton Programme series.)
Models the electron as a topological soliton on a Hopf bundle,
deriving its mass, charge, and spin from geometry rather than postulate.
The foundational paper of an ongoing programme of independent
research.
From
the Hopf Bundle to the Standard Model — Gravity, Couplings,
Generations
A. Novickis, 2026. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19581398
(Paper X in the Hopf Soliton Programme series.)
Extends the topological-soliton framework from electromagnetism to
the full Standard Model — gauge couplings, generation structure, and an
emergent-gravity sector. The structural paper that ties the foundational
results together.
Articles
Using
Formal Techniques with TLA+ for ISO 26262 Functional Safety
Verification
Published on LinkedIn
(short version) and as the full version with code on
this site. A worked dual-channel-arbitration example
showing how TLA+ catches architectural safety bugs that static analysis
cannot.
All published work
For the complete bibliography (50+ papers across the Hopf Soliton
Programme, plus engineering work), search Zenodo for
Alexander Novickis.