18-643 Course Schedule, Fall 2020 (Not Most Recent)

Lecture notes are posted within 24 hours after the lecture; you may find it useful to preview lecture notes from Fall 2019 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.
- “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 5 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	8/31	L1	Introduction	1st-Half Kick Off: [Trimberger15]	Lab 0: Warm-Up
	9/2	L2	FPGA Basics	RC Ch 1 (skim RC Ch 4,13,14)
2	9/7		Labor Day; No Classes
	9/9	L3	FPGA Less Basic
3	9/14	L4	Modern FPGAs	ZB Ch 2 (skim ZB Ch 3,10; [Ahmed16], [Versal])	Lab 1: FPGA SoC
	9/16	L5	Design Metrics	read H&P chapter on performance if you haven't
4	9/21	L6	Hard vs Soft Logic	(skim [Kuon06][Papamichael12][Chung10])
	9/23	L7	Structural RTL	HDL Compiler for Verilog Reference Manual; Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Synthesis (UG901)
5	9/28	L8	Abstract Models	(skim RC Ch 5,8,9,10)	Lab 2: IP HLS
	9/30	L9	C-to-HW	RC Ch 7; [Edwards05] (skim IEEE Design & Test of Computers, Issue 4, 2009)
6	10/5	L10	Vivado HLS	ZB Ch 15; Vivado Design Suite User Guide: High-Level Synthesis (UG902)
	10/7	L11	Intel OpenCL	Intel SDK for OpenCL: Best Practices Guide
7	10/12	L12	Memory Architecture	(skim [Brewer10])	Lab 3: HW Acceleration
	10/14	L13	Memory Techniques	[Kung86] [Williams09]
8	10/19	L14	Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration	ZB Ch 5.6
	10/21	L15	FPGA “Architecture”
9	10/26	L16	Service-Oriented Memory Architecture Guest Speaker: Joe Melber (CMU)		Lab 4: HPC HLS
	10/28		Midterm 1	2nd-Half Kick Off: [Tessier15] (skim [DeHon15])
10	11/2		Term Project Proposal Student Presentations
	11/3		Term Project Proposal Student Presentations
11	11/9	L17	FPGAs in Datacenter	[Caulfield16] [Shu19]
	11/11	L18	Security	[Zhang19] [Ramesh18]
12	11/16	L19	Network Acceleration Guest Speaker: Zhipeng Zhao (CMU)	[Firestone18] [Zhao20]
	11/18	L20	Machine Learning Guest Speaker: Gabe Weisz	[Fowers18] [Jouppi17]
13	11/23	L21	High Level Synthesis	[Lai19] [Josipovic18]
	11/25		Thanksgiving
14	11/30	L22	DSL	[Wang17] [Chen18]
	12/2	L23	Overlay	[Abdelfattah18] [Taras19]
15	12/7	L24	Accelerator Landscape Guest Speaker: Eriko Nurvitadhi (Intel)	[Tan19] [Nurvitadhi19]
	12/9	L25	OS	[Korolija21] [Vaishnav20]
16	12/14~ 12/18		Term Project Student Presentations (20 minutes scheduled slots)

18-643 Course Schedule, Fall 2020 (**Not Most Recent**)

Schedule and Lecture Notes

18-643 Course Schedule, Fall 2020 (Not Most Recent)