My Tuesday office hours have now moved to period 3.
Midterm 1 will be on Friday, Feb 10 in class. Midterm 2 will be on Friday, March 17. Midterm 3 will be Wed, April 19. There is no final.
Advanced modular logic, design languages, finite state machines and binary logic.
This course will review basic concepts in digital logic (muxes, decoders,
encoders, etc.) and will build upon these concepts to form complex digital
circuits consisting of finite state machines, controllers, and datapaths. The
course will be lab intensive and will provide realistic case studies to apply
concepts learned during lecture. All concepts discussed in lecture will be
implemented in VHDL.
| Date | Topic | Slides/Reading Material |
|---|---|---|
| W, January 4 | Course Intro |
Slides |
| F, January 6 | VHDL Intro (guidelines, entity and architecture, basic mux implementation) | Tutorial |
| M, January 9 | VHDL Intro (if vs. case, priority encoder, structural architectures) |
Tutorial (read combinational logic and structural description sections)
4x1 mux See Ch. 6 for priority encoder example. |
| W, January 11 |
Lab 1 Structural Architectures, Cont. | |
| F, January 13 | Arithmetic Operations |
Add w/ carry examples in different packages: numeric_std std_logic_arith with std_logic_unsigned std_logic_arith Common Problems: Signal/variable comparison |
| M, January 16 | Holiday | |
| W, January 18 | Lab 2, Generics, Avoiding Latches, Testbenches | |
| F, January 20 | Testbenches, Cont. Carry-Lookahead Adders |
Slides Read Section 5.4 |
| M, January 23 | Lab 3, For-generate | |
| W, January 25 | Misc. VHDL (initialization of signals, advanced testbenches, generics, components, vho/vhd, package reference) | |
| F, January 27 | Sequential Logic (see tutorial examples) | |
| M, January 30 | Synthesis of Sequential Logic (see tutorial examples) | |
| M, Feb 1 | Finite State Machines | See tutorial. Direct link. |
| F, Feb 3 | Midterm 1 Review | |
| M, Feb 6 | Lab 4 | See counter example in sequential logic section of the tutorial. |
| W, Feb 8 | No Class | |
| F, Feb 10 | Midterm 1 | |
| M, Feb 13 | FSMD |
See Controllers+Datapath section of VHDL tutorial. Fibonacci Calculator FSMD (1-process model) Fibonacci code and datapath |
| W, Feb 15 | FSM+D | Code to be shared later. |
| F, Feb 17 | FSM+D, Cont. | Code to be shared later. |
| M, Feb 20 | Lab 6 | |
| W, Feb 22 | Lab 6 | |
| F, Feb 24 | Arrays, If Generate | See delay example on tutorial. |
| M, Feb 27 | FPGA Architectures |
FPGA Architecture Slides
Cyclone II Datasheet Cyclone II Figures Cyclone II Family Overview Cyclone III Family Handbook Cyclone III Family Overview |
| W, March 1 | FPGA Architectures, Cont. | |
| F, March 3 | Class Cancelled | |
| M, March 13 | Midterm 2 Review | |
| W, March 15 | MIPS Project (Register File, RAM) | RAM Code |
| F, March 17 | Midterm 2 | |
| M, March 20 | MIPS Project (Register File) | |
| W, March 22 | MIPS Project (ALU, datapath) | |
| F, March 24 | Testbench Recommendations, Buses, Tristates | Bus/Tristate Code |
| M, March 27 | MIPS Datapath, Memory, Ports, RAM, R-type instructions | |
| W, March 29 | MIPS I-type instructions | |
| F, March 31 | MIPS branch/jump instructions | |
| M, April 3 | MIPS jump instructions, MIF Files | |
| W, April 5 | Class Cancelled | |
| F, April 7 | Research Overview | Virtualization Slides |
| M, April 10 | Metastability, Clock-Domain Crossing | Papers |
| W, April 12 |
Pareto Optimality Design-space exploration |
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| F, April 14 |
Design-space exploration, cont. Pipelining |
Sliding-Window Paper
Sliding-Window Slides |
| M, April 17 | Midterm 3 Review |