| Wk | Lect. | Date | Lecture | Slides | Due | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 9/2 | W | Intro/Overview | ppt pdf | read | |
| 2 | 9/7 | M | No Class: Labor Day Holiday | ||||
| 9/8 | T | uniprocessor and C Refresher 5:30pm Eastern | |||||
| 2 | 9/9 | W | Analysis, Metrics, Bottlenecks | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 9/11 | F | HW1: Hello AWS | Overview | ||||
| 3 | 3 | 9/14 | M | Basic Memory | ppt pdf | read | |
| 4 | 9/16 | W | Parallelism Overview | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 9/18 | F | HW2: Software, Analysis | |||||
| 4 | 5 | 9/21 | M | Dataflow Process Model | ppt pdf | read | |
| 6 | 9/23 | W | Data Parallel (SIMD, Vector) |
ppt
pdf
post lecture ppt (table completed) |
read | ||
| 9/25 | F | HW3: Multiple Processors | |||||
| 5 | 7 | 9/28 | M | Pipelining |
ppt
pdf
|
read | |
| 8 | 9/30 | W | Spatial Computations (hardware) |
ppt
pdf
post lecture ppt with tables completed |
read | ||
| 10/2 | F | HW4: Vector | |||||
| 6 | 9 | 10/5 | M | HLS: C-to-gates (C-for-gates) |
ppt
pdf
|
read | |
| 10 | 10/7 | W | Midterm Exam (no lecture) |
Midterm Format and Regulation Midterm as Given Midterm Solutions |
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| 10/9 | F | No assignment due. | |||||
| 7 | 11 | 10/12 | M | Coding HLS for Accelerators |
ppt
pdf
|
(drop date) | read |
| 12 | 10/14 | W | Distributed Memory and Data Movement | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 10/14 | W | 4:30pm Invited to ESE680 guest lecture by Stephen Neuendorffer at Xilinx on compiler optimizations for data movement in VERSAL | |||||
| 10/16 | F | HW5: Accelerator | |||||
| 8 | 13 | 10/19 | M | Vitis/OpenCL Data Transfer Model | ppt pdf | read | |
| 14 | 10/21 | W | Orchestrating Data in Memories | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 10/21 | W | 4:30pm: invited to ESE680 guest lecture by Randy Huang on AWS Inferentia Chip Development | |||||
| 10/23 | F | No assignment due; start on HW 6 | |||||
| 9 | 15 | 10/26 | M | Development by Incremental Refinement | ppt pdf | read | |
| 16 | 10/28 | W | Project Overview: Deduplication and Compression | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 10/30 | F | HW6: Streaming Pipelined Accelerator | |||||
| 10 | 17 | 11/2 | M | Maps and Hash Tables (LZW and interaction with) |
ppt
pdf
post lecture ppt Feedback |
read | |
| 18 | 11/4 | W | Design Space Exploration (and left-over Hash Tables) | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 11/6 | F |
Project P1: Analysis |
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| 11 | 19 | 11/9 | M | Verification 1 | ppt pdf | (withdraw date) | read |
| 20 | 11/11 | W | Verification 2 |
ppt
pdf
post lecture slides (adds result of working Preclass 3) |
read | ||
| 11/13 | F | P2: Design and Function | |||||
| 12 | 21 | 11/16 | M | Reduce | ppt pdf | read | |
| 22 | 11/18 | W | Estimating Chip Area and Costs | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 11/20 | F | P3: I/O, FPGA | |||||
| 13 | 23 | 11/23 | M | Energy | ppt pdf | read | |
| 11/25 | W(F) | No Class: Penn on Friday Schedule | |||||
| 11/27 | F | Thanksgiving Holiday (No assignment due) | |||||
| 14 | 24 | 11/30 | M | Real Time | ppt pdf | read | |
| 25 | 12/2 | W | Real-Time Scheduling |
ppt
pdf
post lecture slides (adds preclass 3b/3c schedules) |
read | ||
| 12/4 | F | P4: 200Mb/s | |||||
| 15 | 26 | 12/7 | M | VLIW | ppt pdf | read | |
| 27 | 12/9 | W | Software Pipelining |
ppt
pdf
[post lecture, worked examples] |
read | ||
| 28 | 12/10 | R | Wrapup | ppt pdf |
P5: Final Project Report |
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| 12/18 | F | Final Exam
Registrar
Preliminary Schedule is for 9-11am; plan to run like midterm, so
anywhere in 24 hour period of the day
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Final Format and Regulation Final Given Final Solutions |
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This working calendar is on the web: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~ese532/fall2020.html.
Please, recheck the page on the web as details may be adjusted as the
term progresses. Except for weather and other unexpected events, schedule of assignments and exams should not change.
Lectures notes, reading, and handouts will be added as we reach them.