18-643 Course Schedule, Fall 2019 (Not Most Recent)

Lecture notes are posted within 24 hours after the lecture; you may find it useful to preview lecture notes from Fall 2017 before class.

Reading assignments are to be completed BEFORE coming to class.
- RC=Reconfigurable Computing: The Theory and Practice of FPGA-Based Computation by Scott Hauck and Andre DeHon.
- ZB=The Zynq Book by Louise H. Crockett, et al.
- Additional papers
- “skim” are recommended supplemental materials. You should read them with as much interest as you have. Read enough to know what is all covered so you can come back to a reading if you develop more interest later.
There are 4 two-week-long do-at-home labs in the first half of the semester. There is a single project for the second half of the semester.
Please note the attendance-mandatory dates for the midterm and in-class project presentations. Audience of overflow presentations on Wednesdays (if necessary) is not required.
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Schedule and Lecture Notes

Week	Date	L#	Topic	Readings	Lab
1	8/27	L1	Introduction	1st-Half Kick Off: [Trimberger15]	Lab 0: Warm-Up
	8/29	L2	FPGA Basics	RC Ch 1 (skim RC Ch 4,13,14)
2	9/3	L3	FPGA Less Basic
	9/5	L4	Modern FPGAs	ZB Ch 2 (skim ZB Ch 3,10; [Ahmed16], [Versal])
3	9/10	L5	Design Metrics	read H&P chapter on performance if you haven't	Lab 1: Vivado SoC
	9/12	L6	Hard vs Soft Logic	(skim [Kuon06][Papamichael12][Chung10])
4	9/17	L7	Structural RTL	HDL Compiler for Verilog Reference Manual; Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Synthesis (UG901)
	9/19	L8	Abstract Models	(skim RC Ch 5,8,9,10)
5	9/24	L9	C-to-HW	RC Ch 7; [Edwards05] (skim IEEE Design & Test of Computers, Issue 4, 2009)	Lab 2: Vivado HLS
	9/26	L10	Vivado HLS	ZB Ch 15; Vivado Design Suite User Guide: High-Level Synthesis (UG902)
6	10/1	L11	Intel OpenCL	(skim [Aydonat17] and Intel SDK for OpenCL: Programming Guide)
	10/3	L12	Memory Architecture	(skim [Brewer10], [Choi18])
7	10/8	L13	Memory Techniques	[Kung86] [Williams09]	Lab 3: HW Accelerate
	10/10	L14	Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration	ZB Ch 5.6
8	10/15		Midterm 1	2nd-Half Kick Off: [Tessier15] (skim [DeHon15])
	10/17	L15	Guest: Eriko Nurvitadhi (Intel). AI and Big Data	[Nurvitadhi19]
9	10/22		Term Project Proposal Student Presentations
	10/24		Term Project Proposal Student Presentations
10	10/29	L16	FPGAs in Datacenter	[Caulfield16] [Shu19]
	10/31	L17	OS/runtime	[Khawaja18] [Eskhandari19]
11	11/5	L18	CGRA and Overlay	[Xilinx19] [Abdelfattah18]
	11/7	L19	Network Acceleration	[Li16] [Firestone18]
12	11/12	L20	Accelerator Landscape Guest: Derek Chiou (Microsoft). ASIC vs FPGA	[Tan19] [Nurvitadhi19]
	11/14	L21	DSL Guest: Suchit Subhaschandra (Megh). Streaming Analytic	[Hagerty16] [Prabhakar17]
13	11/19	L22	Embedded	[Lin18] [Chen16]
	11/21	L23	Machine Learning Guest: Eric Chung (Microsoft). Brainwave	[Fowers18] [Jouppi17]
14	11/26	L24	High Level Synthesis	[Lai19] [Josipovic18]
	11/28	Thanksgiving
15	12/3		Term Project Student Presentations
	12/5		Term Project Student Presentations

18-643 Course Schedule, Fall 2019 (**Not Most Recent**)

Schedule and Lecture Notes

18-643 Course Schedule, Fall 2019 (Not Most Recent)