18-643 Course Schedule, Fall 2023

Lecture notes are posted within 24 hours after the lecture; you may find it useful to preview lecture notes from Fall 2022 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	8/28	L1	Introduction	1st-Half Kick Off: [Trimberger15]	Lab 0: Warm-Up
	8/30	L2	FPGA Basics	[FPGA Architecture White Paper, 2006]
2	9/4		Labor Day; No Classes
	9/6	L3	FPGA Less Basic	[Boutros21]
3	9/11	L4	Modern FPGAs	(skim [Chromczak20],[Ahmed16])	Lab 1: FPGA SoC
	9/13	L5	Design Metrics	18447 [L5], [L12], [L23]
4	9/18	L6	Abstract Models
	9/20	L7	C-to-HW	[Edwards05]
5	9/25	L8	Vivado HLS	The Zynq Book Ch 15	Lab 2: IP HLS
	9/27	L9	Intel OpenCL
6	10/2	L10	Memory Architecture
	10/4	L11	Memory Techniques	(skim [Kung86] [Williams09])
7	10/9	L12	Hard vs Soft Logic	(skim [Kuon06][Papamichael12]])	Lab 3: HW Acceleration
	10/11	L13	Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration	[Vipin18]
	10/16		Fall Break
8	10/23	L14	Stream Data Processing	2nd-Half Kick Off: [Tessier15] (skim [DeHon15])
	10/25		Midterm 1
9	10/30		Term Project Proposal Student Presentations
	11/1		Term Project Proposal Student Presentations
10	11/6	L15	Compute Acceleration	[Zhuang'2023] [Boutros'2020]
	11/8	L16	CGRA & Overlay	[Koul'23] [Liu'2022]
11	11/13	L17	Using HLS	[Chen'21] [Du'22]
	11/15	L18	Better HLS	[Xiang'22] [Cheng'20]
12	11/20	L19	Microsoft Azure	[Caulfield'16] [Firestone'18]
	11/22		Thanksgiving
13	11/27	L20	Networking	[Boo'23] [Lazarev'21]
	11/29	L21	I/O and memory	[Landgraf'23] [Wang'23]
14	12/4	L22	OS	[Korolija'20] [Mbongue'21]
	12/6	L23	Virtualization & Security	[Zha'21] [Zhao'22]
finals week	12/11~ 12/15		Term Project Student Presentations (20 minutes scheduled slots)