18-643 Course Schedule, Fall 2022 (Not Most Recent)

Fall 2022 is an abbreviated 14-week semester.
Lecture notes are posted within 24 hours after the lecture; you may find it useful to preview lecture notes from Fall 2021 before class.
There are 4 2-week 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. (Attendance of overflow presentations during recitation (if necessary) is not required.)
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Week	Date	L#	Topic	Readings	Lab
1	8/29	L1	Introduction	1st-Half Kick Off: [Trimberger15]	Lab 0: Warm-Up
	8/31	L2	FPGA Basics	[FPGA Architecture White Paper, 2006]
2	9/5		Labor Day; No Classes
	9/7	L3	FPGA Less Basic	[Boutros21]
3	9/12	L4	Modern FPGAs	(skim [Chromczak20],[Ahmed16])	Lab 1: FPGA SoC
	9/14	L5	Design Metrics	18447 [L5], [L12], [L23]
4	9/19	L6	Abstract Models
	9/21	L7	C-to-HW	[Edwards05]
5	9/26	L8	Vivado HLS	The Zynq Book Ch 15	Lab 2: IP HLS
	9/28	L9	Intel OpenCL
6	10/3	L10	Memory Architecture
	10/5	L11	Memory Techniques	(skim [Kung86] [Williams09])
7	10/10	L12	Hard vs Soft Logic	(skim [Kuon06][Papamichael12]])	Lab 3: HW Acceleration
	10/12	L13	Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration	[Vipin18]
	10/17		Fall Break
8	10/24	L14	Project Proposal Clinic	2nd-Half Kick Off: [Tessier15] (skim [DeHon15])
	10/26		Midterm 1
9	10/31		Term Project Proposal Student Presentations
	11/2		Term Project Proposal Student Presentations
10	11/7	L15	New-Style FPGAs	[Langhammer21], [Neuendorffer21]
	11/9	L16	Accelerator Landscape	[Boutros20] [Boutros22]
11	11/14	L17	FPGAs in Datacenter	[Caulfield16] [Wang20]
	11/16	L18	Datacenter Scale Machine Learning	[Fowers18] [Jouppi17]
12	11/21	L19	Network and Storage Acceleration Guest Lecture: Eriko Nurvitadhi (Mangoboost)	[Firestone18] [Salamat21]
	11/23		Thanksgiving
13	11/28	L20	DSL Guest Lecture: Joe Melber (Xilinx)	[Wang17] [Chen18]
	11/30	L21	High Level Synthesis	[Lai19] [Josipovic18]
14	12/5	L22	Overlay	[Liu22] [Ma21]
	12/7	L23	OS	[Korolija21] [Mbongue22]
finals week	12/12~ 12/16		Term Project Student Presentations (20 minutes scheduled slots)

18-643 Course Schedule, Fall 2022 (**Not Most Recent**)