Midterm 2 will be on the last day of classes (Wednesday, December 9th). The final project demos will take place during the first 3 days of finals week (December 14-16).
Midterm 1 is scheduled for Friday, October 9 during the normal lecture time.
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.
| Date | Topic | Slides/Reading Material |
|---|---|---|
| M, Aug 24 | Course info, Intro to RC |
Slides Paper: Compton, Hauck Survey |
| W, Aug 26 | Introduction to RC |
Slides |
| F, Aug 26 | VHDL Tutorial | |
| M, Aug 31 | VHDL Tutorial | |
| W, Sep 2 | VHDL Tutorial | |
| F, Sep 4 | RC Architectures |
Slides Read Chapters 1-4 |
| W, Sep 9 | RC Architectures, Cont. | |
| F, Sep 11 | RC Architectures, Cont. | |
| M, Sep 14 | Nallatech Tutorial | Nallatech Slides |
| W, Sep 16 | NP-Completeness, Optimization Problems, Heuristics | Slides |
| F, Sep 18 | RT Synthesis, Placement |
Slides
Paper: Placement/Routing |
| M, Sep 21 | RT Synthesis, Placement, Cont. |
Papers: Pathfinder Versatile Place+Route (VPR) |
| W, Sep 23 | RT Synthesis, Placement, Cont. | |
| F, Sep 25 | Advanced VHDL Topics | |
| M, Sep 28 | Lab 3 Discussion | |
| W, Sep 30 | Systolic Arrays | Slides |
| F, Oct 2 | Systolic Arrays | |
| M, Oct 5 | Systolic Arrays | |
| W, Oct 7 | Midterm Review | |
| F, Oct 9 | Midterm 2 | |
| M, Oct 12 | Midterm 2 Discussion | |
| W, Oct 14 | Lab 4 Discussion, High-level synthesis | Slides |
| M, Oct 19 | High-level synthesis | |
| W, Oct 21 | High-level synthesis | |
| F, Oct 23 | High-level synthesis | |
| M, Oct 26 | High-level synthesis | |
| W, Oct 28 | High-level synthesis | |
| F, Oct 30 | High-level synthesis | |
| M, Nov 2 | High-level synthesis | |
| W, Nov 4 | Buffering Techniques |
Slides
Smart Buffer Paper Smart Buffer Paper2 |
| F, Nov 6 | Smart Buffers | Buffer slides (Updated) |
| M, Nov 9 | Nallatech SRAMs | |
| F, Nov 13 | Hw/Sw Partitioning |
Hw/Sw Partitioning Slides
System Level Hardware/Software Partitioning Based on Simulated Annealing and Tabu Search An Evaluation of Bipartitioning Techniques |
| M, Nov 16 | Hw/Sw Partitioning | |
| W, Nov 18 | Paper Guidelines | |
| F, Nov 20 | Traversal Caches |
Paper 1
Paper 2 |
| M, Nov 23 | Partial Reconfiguration |
Slides
Paper 1 Paper 2 |
| W, Nov 25 | SHMEM+ |
Slides
Paper |
| M, Nov 30 | Novo-G | Slides |
| W, Dec 2 | Warp Processing, Intermediate Fabrics (IFs) |
Warp Processing Slides
IF Slides |