15-828/18-847 Spring '98 Home Page

Welcome to the WWW homepage for CMU 15-828/18-847 "Reconfigurable Computing Seminar" The course is being taught by Professor Seth Goldstein and Dr. Herman Schmit. The course secretary is Barbara Grandillo.

The dic manual is available in either postscript or html.

The Seminar meets on Monday, Wednesday 1:30-3:00 WeH 5409B.

How to access the course staff:

Prof. Seth Goldstein: seth+@cs.cmu.edu, x8-2838, 7122 WeH, Office hour: Wed 4:00-5:00
Dr. Herman Scmit: herman@ece.cmu.edu, x8-6470, HH2108, Office hour: Thur 10:00-11:00
Barbara Grandillo, Course Secretary: bag@cs.cmu.edu, x8-7550, 8212 WeH

Newsgroups:

You should read the class newsgroups regularly. If the following addresses are not accessible, use your favorite newsgroup reader.

cmu.cs.class.cs828.announce (for announcements by course staff).
cmu.cs.class.cs828.discuss (for general discussion).

We ask that students obey appropriate netiquette.

Handouts in PostScript format:

Also, you can go directly to the directory /afs/cs/academic/classes/15828/handouts to print (lpr) the postscript files or view (ghostview) them.

Handouts in HTML format:

Note: sometimes parts of documents can get mangled when converting to html, so the PostScript versions (if available) should be treated as "official".

Lectures:

Here are the lecture outlines/slides.

Lecture 1/12: Intro to Reconfigurable Computing
Lecture 1/14: Reconfigurable Computing Basics, reading, scribe notes
Lecture 1/19: Introduction to FPGA Technology, reading, scribe notes
Lecture 1/21: FPGA Arithmetic I, reading, scribe notes
Lecture 1/26: FPGA Arithmetic II, reading, scribe notes
Lecture 1/28: Splash: Architecure and Applications, reading, scribe notes
Lecture 2/2: The Systolic Model, reading, scribe notes
Lecture 2/4: Runtime Reconfigurable Architectures: PipeRench, reading, scribe notes
Lecture 2/9: Runtime Reconfigurable Architectures: Multi-Context, reading, scribe notes
Lecture 2/11: Function-Unit Architectures, reading, scribe notes
Lecture 2/16: Lab-2 Progress Report
Lecture 2/18: Logic Emulation Architectures, reading, scribe notes
Lecture 2/23: Programming Reconfigurable Computers, reading, scribe notes
Lecture 2/25: Lab-2 Selected Final Reports
Lecture 03/04: Logic Cell and Datapath Mapping, reading, scribe notes
Lecture 03/09: Behavioral Synthesis, reading, scribe notes
Lecture 03/11: Hardware/Software Codesign, scribe notes
Lecture 3/18: Systolic Loop Transformations, reading, scribe notes
Lecture 3/30: Software Pipelining, reading, scribe notes
Lecture 04/01: Retiming, reading, scribe notes
Lecture 04/20: MATRIX and RaPiD, reading, scribe notes
Lecture 4/22: Module Generators, reading, scribe notes

Scribe Notes:

Scribe note templates are now found in the same lecture as the lecture slides. You can retrieve them by following the scribe notes link next the appropriate lecture. When the lecture slides are put on the web, the scribe note template will be placed there as well. This should lead to less gratuitous typing.