I design and research FPGA-based systems, digital hardware architectures, and emerging computing technologies with a focus on efficiency, sustainability, and practical innovation.
A’Yana Leonard is a U.S. Army veteran, FPGA and digital systems designer, and quantum computing research assistant with Altivatum. Her work explores sustainable computing, energy-aware hardware, parallel processing, AI acceleration, and emerging computing technologies. With an interdisciplinary background in technology, research, physics, mathematics, and business, she approaches engineering from both a technical and real-world problem-solving perspective.
U.S. Army
Veteran
Altivatum
Quantum Computing Research Assistant
Interdisciplinary
Tech • Physics • Math • Business
An energy-aware FPGA architecture that explores hardware-based monitoring, communication, environmental sensing, and intelligent power management for sustainable embedded systems.
Notable achievement
Successfully completed simulation, verification, synthesis, placement, routing, timing analysis, and FPGA bitstream generation.
A parameterized FPGA-based matrix multiplication accelerator using a systolic array architecture, reusable processing elements, multiply-accumulate units, and a controller finite-state machine.
Notable achievement
The 2×2 implementation achieved timing closure on an Artix-7 target with zero failing setup or hold endpoints. The architecture was designed to support future scaling to larger arrays.
A compact vector-compute GPU prototype and FPGA portfolio architecture featuring a four-lane SIMD arithmetic engine, an eight-entry vector register file, encoded operation control, and automated behavioral verification.
Notable achievement
Successfully implemented for an AMD Artix-7 target after redesigning the data interface to reduce physical I/O usage from 133 exposed ports to 50.
Have a technical problem, research question, or ambitious idea? I’d be glad to hear what you’re working on.
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