Midterm 1 will be on Friday, Feb 26 (delayed by 1 week). Midterm 2 will be on Friday, March 26 (delayed 1 week). Midterm 3 will be Wed, April 21. There is no final.
Late penalties for labs are 20% for the first day and 10% for each additional day.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| M, January 11 | Course Intro |
Slides Lecture Video (lecture1.mp4) Additional Course Intro (class_intro.mp4) |
| W, January 13 | VHDL Intro (guidelines, entity and architecture, basic mux implementation) |
Lecture (Part 1) (vhdl_intro.mp4) Lecture (Part 2) (vhdl_intro2.mp4) VHDL Tutorial (See 2x1 mux example) |
| F, January 15 | VHDL Intro (if vs. case, priority encoder, structural architectures) |
Lecture (vhdl_intro3.mp4) Tutorial (read combinational logic and structural description sections) 4x1 mux See Ch. 6 for priority encoder example. |
| M, January 18 | Holiday | |
| W, January 20 | Lab 1 |
Lecture (lab1.mp4) See lab page. |
| F, January 22 | Arithmetic Operations |
Lecture (vhdl_arithmetic_ops.mp4) 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 25 | Generics, ALU, Latches |
Lecture (vhdl_alu.mp4) See ALU example on my tutorial. |
| W, January 27 | Lab 2 |
Lecture (lab2.mp4) See lab website. |
| F, January 29 | Testbenches |
Lecture (vhdl_testbenches.mp4) See tutorial for examples. |
| M, February 1 | Carry-Lookahead Adders |
Lecture (cla.mp4) Carry-Lookahead Slides Read Section 5.4 |
| W, February 3 | Lab 3, for-generate |
Lecture (lab3.mp4) Lecture (vhdl-for-generate.mp4) |
| F, February 5 | Sequential Logic |
Lecture (vhdl-sequential.mp4) |
| M, Feb 8 |
Sequential Logic, Cont. Finite State Machines |
Lecture (vhdl-fsm.mp4) |
| W, Feb 10 | Lab 4 |
Lecture (lab4.mp4) |
| F, Feb 12 | Misc VHDL, Sequential Logic Testbenches, Counters, Integers |
Lecture (vhdl-misc.mp4) See tutorial. Counter link. |
| M, Feb 15 | Counters Cont., FSMD |
Lecture (vhdl-fsmd.mp4) See Controllers+Datapath section of VHDL tutorial. Fibonacci Calculator FSMD (1-process model) Fibonacci code and datapath |
| W, Feb 17 | FSM+D |
Lecture (vhdl-fsm-plus-d.mp4) See Controllers+Datapath section of VHDL tutorial. Fibonacci Calculator FSMD (1-process model) Fibonacci code and datapath |
| F, Feb 19 |
FSM+D, Cont. Midterm 1 Review |
FSM+D Part2 (vhdl-fsm-plus-d2.mp4) Midterm Review (midterm1-review.mp4) |
| M, Feb 22 | Lab 5, 2-process FSMD |
Lecture (lab5-vhdl-2p-fmsd.mp4) 2-process FSMD code |
| W, Feb 24 | Recharge Day | |
| F, Feb 26 | Midterm 1 | |
| M, Mar 1 | VGA, Lab 6 |
Lecture (lab6.mp4) VGA Interface Slides Lab 6 Slides |
| W, Mar 3 |
Lab 6, Cont. Midterm 1 Solution |
Lab 6 Part 2 (lab6_2.mp4) Midterm 1 Solution (midterm1_solution.mp4) |
| F, Mar 5 | FPGA Architectures |
Lecture FPGA Architecture Slides Max 10 Overview |
| M, Mar 8 | FPGA Architectures, Cont. |
Lecture |
| W, Mar 10 | FPGA Architectures, Cont. |
Lecture |
| F, Mar 12 | Arrays, RAM, Register Files |
Lecture |
| M, Mar 15 | MIPS (Register File, ALU, Datapath) |
Lecture |
| W, Mar 17 | MIPS (Memory, I/O Ports, Instruction Fetch, Instruction Decode, Register Fetch) |
Lecture |
| F, Mar 19 | MIPS (R-type Instructions) |
Lecture |
| M, Mar 22 | Midterm 2 Review | |
| W, Mar 24 | Recharge Day | |
| F, Mar 26 | Midterm 2 | |
| M, Mar 29 | MIPS (I-type, Jump, Branch, Load/Store) |
Lecture (I-type) Lecture (Jump and Branch) Lecture (Load and Store) |
| W, Mar 31 | MIPS (MIF and Assembly Code) |
Lecture |
| F, April 2 | Buses, Tristates |
Bus/Tristate Code Lecture |
| M, April 5 | Metastability, Clock-Domain Crossing |
Papers CDC overview Lecture |
| W, April 7 | Metastability, Clock-Domain Crossing, Cont. |
Lecture |
| F, April 9 | Design-Space Exploration, Pareto-Optimality |
Lecture |
| M, April 12 | Design-Space Exploration, Pareto-Optimality, Cont. |
Lecture |
| W, April 14 | Timing Optimization (Optional, will not be on tes |
Lecture: Background and Challenges Lecture: Optimization Strategies Github repo with code and slides |
| F, April 16 | Midterm 3 Review | |
| M, April 19 | Efficient Processing of Deep Neural Network |
Lecture Slides |
| W, April 21 | Midterm 3 |