ECE 594 - Reconfigurable System Synthesis

Winter 2004

Instructor: Prof. Ryan Kastner (kastner@ece.ucsb.edu)

Time: Monday, Wednesday, noon

Location: Phelps 1437

Office Hours: After class or by appointment

Recent Class Announcements:

1. Homework #5 due 11am, Wed. February 18

2. Homework #4 due 11am, Wed. February 18

3. Student Presentation - Aravind - Symbolic Scheduling - February 9

4. Homework #3 due Noon, Wed. February 4

5. Student Presentation - Nitin - Metropolis - February 2

6. Student Presentation - Sirisha - Transaction Based Languages - January 28

Grading:

• Project - 60%

  • 15% - Topic research - Literature survey

  • 15% - Results

  • 15% - Project Presentations- 30 minute presentation during finals week

  • 15% - Project Reports

• Homework - 20%

• Paper Presentation - 15%

  • 20-25 min presentation

  • Paper review or area survey (topic/paper specified by me)

• Class Participation - 5%

  • Questions in class

  • Questions during presentations

Prerequisites:

This class requires a background knowledge found in a typical undergraduate computer engineering curriculum.  Specifically, the class assumes knowledge of compilers, algorithms, computer architecture and low level hardware synthesis (logic and physical synthesis).

Related classes:

• Reconfigurable Computing - Prof. Andre Dehon - Cal Tech

• Reconfigurable Computing Seminar - Profs. Seth Goldstein and Herman Schmit - CMU

• Reconfigurable Computing - Prof. Russell Tessier - U Mass

• Reconfigurable Computing - Prof. Kia Bazargan - Univ. of Minnesota

• Reconfigurable Hardware - Prof. John Lockwood - Washington University

• Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Design - Abdel Ejnioui - Univ. of Central Florida

• Embedded and Real-Time Systems - Prof. Mani Srivastava - UCLA

• Languages for Embedded System Design - Prof. Stephen Edwards - Columbia University

• Embedded System Design: A Unified Hardware/Software Introduction - Prof. Frank Vahid, UC Riverside and Tony Givargis, UC Irvine

• Embedded Software Systems - Prof. Brian L. Evans - University of Texas at Austin

• Design of Embedded Systems: Models, Validation, and Synthesis - Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli - UC Berkeley

• Specification and Modeling of Reactive Real-Time Systems - Prof. Edward A. Lee - UC Berkeley

• Introduction to Embedded Computer Systems, Software for Embedded Systems - Prof. Rajesh Gupta - UCSD

• Hardware-Software Codesign for System on a Chip, VLSI CAD: Software To Logic - JoAnn Paul, Prof. Don Thomas - CMU

• Hardware Software Codesign of Embedded Systems - Prof. Rabi Mahapatra