EEL4930/5934 - Reconfigurable Computing

Announcements

Midterm 2 Sample Problems

Here are some sample problems to practice for midterm 2. Check back for updated versions and additional problems.

Here is an updated version, please ignore the previous version. Solutions will be posted soon.

Yet another version, which fixes some typos, and clarifies some questions.

Here are the solutions for the sample problems. Sorry for the 2nd grade handwriting. On problem 9, the priorities use maximum cycle length, not maximum path length as discussed in class. I will clarify this during lecture.

Midterm 2

Midterm 2 will be on Wednesday, October 31. The format will be similar to the first midterm, but there will be less multiple choice.

FINAL

The final has been moved to Monday Dec. 3. It will be held during lecture.

Overview

Fundamental concepts at advanced undergraduate level (EEL4930) and introductory graduate level (EEL5934) in reconfigurable computing based upon advanced technologies in field-programmable logic devices. Topics include general concepts, device architectures, design tools, metrics and kernels, system architectures, and application case studies.

Course Information

LABS
Syllabus
E-learning
Professors Dr. Greg Stitt (gstitt, at ece.ufl.edu), Office Hours (M 3-4pm, W 2-3pm or by appointment, Benton 323)
Dr. Herman Lam (hlam, at ufl.edu), Office Hours (T, Th, F 12:50-1:40pm or by appointment, Larsen 225)
Teaching Assistant Pareena Verma (pareena at ufl.edu), Office Hours (M/W 3-5pm, F 3-4pm or by appointment, NEB 288)
Lecture M W F, Period 5 (11:45AM - 12:35PM), Lar 0239

Lectures

Lecture	Date	Topic	Slides/Reading Material
1	F, Aug 24	Course info, Intro to RC	Slides Compton, Hauck Survey
2	M, Aug 27	RC Markets	Slides Chapters 1-4 (by next week)
3	W, Aug 29	FPGA Architectures	Chapters 1-4
4	F, Aug 31	VHDL Tutorial, FPGA architectures cont.	Online tutorial
5	W, Sept. 5	VHDL Tutorial, cont.	Online tutorial
6	F, Sept. 7	VHDL Tutorial, cont.	Online tutorial
7	M, Sept. 10	Nallatech Tutorial	Nallatech Tutorial Slides
8	W, Sept. 12	FPGA Architectures 2	FPGA/Routing tutorial
9	F, Sept. 14	FPGA Architectures 3	FPGA/Routing tutorial
10	M, Sept. 17	Placement and Routing
11	W, Sept. 19	Nallatech Discussions
12	F, Sept. 21	Nallatech
13	M, Sept. 24	NP/P, Branch+Bound, Heuristics
14	W, Sept. 26	Placement and Routing 2	Maze Router Demonstration
15	F, Sept. 28	Placement and Routing 3	Circuit Partitioning Slides Pathfinder Slides
16	M, Oct. 1	Placement and Routing 4
17	W, Oct. 3	Midterm 1
18	F, Oct. 5	Systolic Arrays	A Quantitative Analysis of the Speedup Factors of FPGAs over Processors
19	M, Oct. 8	Systolic Arrays, Cont.	Slides (Check back for updates)
20	W, Oct. 10	Systolic Arrays, Cont.	Slides (Check back for updates)
21	F, Oct. 12	Systolic Arrays, Cont.	Slides (Check back for updates)
22	M, Oct. 15	High-Level Synthesis Intro	Slides
23	W, Oct. 17	High-Level Synthesis: Front-End	Slides
24	F, Oct. 19	High-Level Synthesis: Scheduling	Slides
25	M, Oct. 22	High-Level Synthesis: Scheduling 2	Slides
26	W, Oct. 24	High-Level Synthesis: Scheduling 3	Slides Changes from previous version - Slide 89 was modified, several binding slides were added at the end of the section.
27	F, Oct. 26	High-Level Synthesis: Binding/Resource Sharing	Slides Changed slides: 18, 49-51, 58, 61, 75, 81, 83, 93, 104, 106-114
28	M, Oct. 29	Midterm Review
29	W, Oct. 31	Midterm 2
30	M, Nov. 5	Buffering Techniques	High-level Synthesis Slides 1.6 (only last few slides changed) Buffer Slides Smart Buffer paper
31	W, Nov. 7	Hardware/Software Partitioning	Updated buffer slides (changes to smart buffer slides) System Level Hardware/Software Partitioning Based on Simulated Annealing and Tabu Search
32	F, Nov. 9	Smart Buffers/Final Project Discussion
33	W, Nov. 14	Hw/Sw Partitioning	Hw/Sw Slides An Evaluation of Bipartitioning Techniques
34	F, Nov. 16	Warp Processing	Warp Processing Slides Warp Processors Thread Warping
35	M, Nov. 19	RC Performance Prediction	Slides Performance Prediction Paper RAT Paper
36	W, Nov. 21	Partial Reconfiguration	Slides Partial Reconfiguration Paper
37	M, Nov. 26	Performance Analysis	Slides Performance Analysis Paper
38	W, Nov. 28	Device Characterization/Tradeoff Analysis	Slides Density Advantage of RC Paper