Midterm 1 - February 23. No notes/books. Calculators are allowed.
Midterm 2 - April 22. No notes/books. Calculators are allowed.
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 | |
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| W, Jan 7 | Course info, Intro to RC |
Slides Paper - Compton, Hauck Survey |
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| F, Jan 9 | VHDL Tutorial | See references at bottom of page. | |
| M, Jan 12 | VHDL Tutorial, Cont. | ||
| W, Jan 14 | VHDL Tutorial, Cont. | ||
| F, Jan 16 | Introduction to RC |
Slides |
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| W, Jan 21 | RC Architectures |
Slides Read Chapters 1-4 |
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| F, Jan 23 | RC Architectures, cont. | ||
| M, Jan 26 | RC Architectures, cont. | ||
| W, Jan 28 | Nallatech Tutorial | Nallatech Slides | |
| F, Jan 30 | NP-Completeness, Optimization Problems, Heuristics | Slides | |
| M, Feb 2 | RT Synthesis, Placement |
Slides
Paper - Placement/Routing |
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| W, Feb 4 | Placement+Routing | ||
| F, Feb 6 | No Class | ||
| M, Feb 9 | Lab 3 Discussion | ||
| W, Feb 11 | Systolic Arrays | Slides | |
| F, Feb 13 | Systolic Arrays, Cont. | ||
| M, Feb 16 | Systolic Arrays, Cont. | ||
| W, Feb 18 | Systolic Arrays, Cont. | ||
| F, Feb 20 | Midterm Review | ||
| M, Feb 23 | Midterm 1 | ||
| W, Feb 25 | Guest Lecture by Dr. Razdan | ||
| F, Feb 27 | Lab 4 Discussion | ||
| M, March 2 | High-level Synthesis |
Slides
Paper - A Quantitative Analysis of the Speedup Factors of FPGAs over Processors (Intended for the systolic array lectures) |
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| W, March 4 | High-level Synthesis |
Slides
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| F, March 6 | High-level Synthesis | ||
| M, March 16 | VHDL topics, High-level Synthesis | Updated Slides | |
| W, March 18 | High-level Synthesis | ||
| F, March 20 | High-level Synthesis | ||
| M, March 23 | High-level Synthesis | ||
| W, March 25 | High-level Synthesis | ||
| F, March 27 | Buffering Techniques |
Slides
Smart Buffer Paper Smart Buffer Paper2 |
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| M, March 30 | Buffering Techniques | Slides | |
| W, April 1 | Hw/Sw Partitioning |
Hw/Sw Partitioning Slides
System Level Hardware/Software Partitioning Based on Simulated Annealing and Tabu Search An Evaluation of Bipartitioning Techniques |
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| F, April 3 | Hw/Sw Partitioning | ||
| M, April 6 | Hw/Sw Partitioning | ||
| W, April 8 | Warp Processing |
Warp Processing Slides
Warp Processors Thread Warping |
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| F, April 10 | Partial Reconfiguration |
Slides
Paper |
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| M, April 13 | Intermediate Fabrics | Slides | |
| W, April 15 | ImpulseC | Slides | |
| F, April 17 | Performance Analysis |
Slides
Paper |