EEL4720/5721 - Reconfigurable Computing (Fall 2015)

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    Overview

    Fundamental concepts at advanced undergraduate level (EEL4720) and introductory graduate level (EEL5721) 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

    Lectures


    Date Topic Slides/Reading Material
    M, Aug 24 Course info, Intro to RC Slides
    Paper: Compton, Hauck Survey
    Tutorials: Start reading "My Tutorial" under VHDL Resources.
    W, Aug 26 VHDL Tutorial (Combinational Logic) See combinational logic section of "My Tutorial" under VHDL Resources.
    F, Aug 28 VHDL Tutorial (Combinational Logic, Sequential Logic) See my tutorial.
    M, Aug 31 VHDL Tutorial (Sequential Logic, Cont.) See my tutorial.
    W, Aug Sep 2 VHDL Tutorial (Sequential Logic, Cont., Finite-State Machines) See my tutorial.
    F, Aug Sep 4 VHDL Tutorial (Finite-State Machines, FSMD, Structural Architectures, FSM+D) See controller+datapath section of tutorial.
    Additional FSMD example used in class
    M, Sep 7 Holiday
    W, Sep 9 Lab 1
    F, Sep 11 Testbench overview
    Device Tradeoffs    		 Slides
    Measuring the Gap between FPGAs and ASICs
    M, Sep 14 Device Tradeoffs, Cont.
    FPGA Architectures     		Architecture Slides
    W, Sep 16 FPGA Architectures, Cont.
    F, Sep 18 FPGA Architectures, Cont. Xilinx 7 Series FPGA Overview
    Xilinx 7 Series CLB Architecture
    Zynq Product Table
    Architecture Slides (UPDATED)
    M, Sep 21 FPGA Architectures, Cont.
    VHDL: for-generate
    W, Sep 23 Lab 2
    F, Sep 25 Lab 2, Cont.
    Optimization Problems     		Slides
    M Sep 28 Optimization Problems, Cont.
    W Sep 30 Optimization Problems, Cont.
    RT Synthesis, Placement, and Routing    		 Slides
    Papers: Placement/Routing, Pathfinder, Versatile Place+Route (VPR)
    F Oct 2 RT Synthesis, Placement, and Routing, Cont.
    Lab 3
    M, Oct 5 Lab 3, Cont.
    W, Oct 7 Pipelining, Parallelism, Systolic Arrays Pipelining Slides
    F, Oct 9 Pipelining, Parallelism, Systolic Arrays, Cont.
    M, Oct 12 Midterm 1 Review
    W, Oct 14 Midterm 1
    F, Oct 16 Lab 4
    M, Oct 19 Lab 4, Cont.
    Pipelining, Cont.
    W, Oct 21 High-level Synthesis High-level Synthesis Slides
    F, Oct 23 High-level Synthesis, Cont.
    M, Oct 26 High-level Synthesis, Cont.
    W, Oct 28 Midterm 1 Solution Discussion
    F, Oct 30 High-level Synthesis, Cont.
    M, Nov 2 Metastability, Clock-Domain Crossing Papers
    W, Nov 4 Metastability, Clock-Domain Crossing, Cont.
    Lab 5
    F, Nov 6 No class
    M, Nov 9 High-level Synthesis, Cont.
    W, Nov 11 No class
    F, Nov 13 Final project (DMA interface)
    M, Nov 16 Buffering Buffering Slides
    Paper 1
    Paper 2
    Sliding-Window Paper
    W, Nov 18 Buffering, Cont.
    Final project
    F, Nov 20 Final project
    M, Nov 23 Final project (C++, memory map, testbench)
    High-level Synthesis limitations
    		 Extacting task-level parallelism
    M, Nov 30 Hw/Sw Partitioning Slides
    System Level Hardware/Software Partitioning Based on Simulated Annealing and Tabu Search
    An Evaluation of Bipartitioning Techniques
    F, Dec 4 Midterm Review
    M, Dec 7 FPGA Virtualization
    Fast Compilation
    OpenCL High-level Synthesis
    Appromxiation Computing     		OpenCL+Virtualization
    Approximate Computing

    VHDL Resources