Lectures
It is recommended that students take notes and actively participate during class meetings. Before class meetings, it is helpful to review relevant slide deck. Slides are in the shared Google Folder.
Exams
| Exam | Time | Info |
|---|---|---|
| MT | Wed, July 2 at 3 PM Pacific | Info |
| Final | Tues. July 22 at 1:00 PM Pacific | Info |
Lectures
| Week | Lecture - Tuesday | Lab - Wednesday/Friday | Lecture - Thursday |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (5/20-5/22) |
Semester has NOT started [Slides] |
Tools, VHDL, and Vivado; Parity Generator; Special Counter; Yards-Feet-Inches |
Course Overview Gated Clocking CAM [Slides] |
| 2 (5/27-5/29) |
5-Stage CPU with BRAM [Slides] |
Gray Code Counter; Divider with Cache; Chipscope; UART Assistant |
FIFO with BRAM [Slides] |
| 3 (6/3-6/5) |
Clk Skew Timing Analysis Wave Pipelining [Slides] |
CPU with BRAMs; FIFO with BRAMs (tentative) |
Tomasulo (Part 1-2) [Slides] |
| 4 (6/10-6/12) |
Tomasulo (Part 3a) [Slides] |
Tomasulo, OoO Processor - (Front-end Components) |
Tomasulo (Part 3b) [Slides] |
| 5 (6/17-6/19) |
Chip Multiprocessors (CMP) [Slides] |
Tomasulo, OoO Processor - (Back-end Components); AXI |
Juneteenth Holiday (May have a recording to watch) [Slides] |
| 6 (6/23-6/25) |
Chip Multiprocessors (CMP) Barrel Shifters Rotating Prioritizers [Slides] |
(Lab) CMP |
Non-linear Pipelines Burst order PCIe (Part 1) [Slides] |
| 7 (7/1-7/3) |
PCIe (Part 2) Midterm Review (Lab) PCIe [Slides] |
Midterm |
PCIe (Part 2 / 3) [Slides] |
| 8 (7/8-7/10) |
GPGPU (Part 1) [Slides] |
PCIe (Synthesis); GPGPU |
GPGPU (Part 2) [Slides] |
| 9 (7/15-7/17) |
SRAM and DRAM [Slides] |
Demos |
SRAM, DRAM, DFT Review [Slides] |
| 10 (7/22) |
Final Exam [Slides] |
N/A |
No lecture (Semester is over) [Slides] |
