| Wk | Lect. | Date | Lecture | Slides | Due | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1/8 | M | Intro/Overview | ppt pdf |
Assign Logic |
|
| 2 | 1/10 | W | Gates/Logic/FSMs | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 2 | 1/15 | M | No Class | MLK Holiday | 3 | 1/17 | W | Arithmetic, Pipelining, Throughput, Latency | ppt pdf |
Logic Due Assign Arith/ucode |
read |
| 3 | 4 | 1/22 | M | Memory | ppt pdf | read | |
| 5 | 1/24 | W | ALUs, Area/Time Tradeoffs, Virtualization... What is required for computation? |
ppt pdf | |||
| 4 | 6 | 1/29 | M | Costs and Change, MOS Scaling | ppt pdf |
Arith/ucode Due Assign instr |
read |
| 7 | 1/31 | W | Energy and Power | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 5 | 8 | 2/5 | M | Instructions | ppt pdf | read | |
| 9 | 2/7 | W | Instruction Space Modeling | ppt pdf |
instr Due Assign Compute |
read | |
| 6 | 10 | 2/12 | M | Empirical Cost Comparisons | ppt pdf | read | |
| 11 | 2/14 | W | Compute 1: LUTs | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 7 | 2/19 | M | No Class | FPGA | 12 | 2/21 | W | Compute 2: ALUs and PLAs | ppt pdf | read |
| 8 | 13 | 2/26 | M | Interconnect 1: significance, delay, model, busses, and crossbars | ppt pdf |
Compute Due
Assign Wire Req. |
|
| 14 | 2/28 | W | Interconnect 2: requirements and implications | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 3/5--9 | Spring Break | ||||||
| 9 | 15 | 3/12 | M | Interconnect 3: hierarchical and fixedws | ppt pdf | Assign Interconnect | read |
| 16 | 3/14 | W | Interconnect 4: switching requirements | ppt pdf | Wire Req. Due | read | |
| 10 | 17 | 3/19 | M | Interconnect 5: mesh | ppt pdf | read | |
| 18 | 3/21 | W | Interconnect 6: MoT | ppt pdf |
Assign Retime
Interconnect Due |
read | |
| 11 | 19 | 3/26 | M | Retiming 1: requirements, reasons, transformations | ppt pdf | read | |
| 20 | 3/28 | W | Retiming 2: structures | ppt pdf | Retiming Due; Assign Schedule | read | |
| 12 | 21 | 4/1 | M | time multiplexing | ppt pdf | read | |
| 22 | 4/4 | W | Interconnect 7: Time Multiplexed Interconnect---static and dynamic | ppt pdf |
Assign Final Exercise
Schedule due |
read | |
| 13 | 23 | 4/9 | M | Control | ppt pdf | read | |
| 24 | 4/11 | W | Specialization | ppt pdf | read | ||
| 14 | 25 | 4/16 | M | Defect and Fault Tolerance | ppt pdf | read | |
| 26 | 4/18 | W | Et Cetera | ppt pdf | Assign EOT Feedback Questionnaire | read | |
This working calendar is on the web: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~ese680s2/spring2007.html.
Please, recheck the page on the web as details may be adjusted as the
term progresses. Lectures notes, reading, and handouts will be filled as
we reach them.