Fall 2024
Welcome to ENGR E315 (and CSCI B590)
This course provides an introduction to hardware/software interaction and using hardware to accelerate software-based applications. A more detailed description can be found in the syllabus.
This is the tentative schedule for this semester.
| Date | Day | Number | Lecture Topic | Project Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | Monday | 00 | Introduction | |
| 08/28 | Wednesday | 01 | Performance Profiling | P1 Optimization(Py) |
| 09/02 | Monday | 02 | NO CLASS | |
| 09/04 | Wednesday | 02 | Performance Profiling II | |
| 09/09 | Monday | 03 | C Interfacing | P2 Exp Mov Avg (C) |
| 09/11 | Wednesday | 05 | Buses I | P3 Exp Mov Avg (V) |
| 09/16 | Monday | 06 | Buses II | |
| 09/18 | Wednesday | 06 | MMIO I | P3 Exp Mov Avg (V) |
| 09/23 | Monday | 07 | MMIO II | |
| 09/25 | Wednesday | 08 | Real Buses | P4 MMIO Popcount (V) |
| 09/30 | Monday | 09 | High Performance Buses | |
| 10/02 | Wednesday | 10 | Memory / Tristate | P5 Linux MMIO (C) |
| 10/07 | Monday | 11 | C / Linux Interfacing I | |
| 10/09 | Wednesday | C / Linux Interfacing II | P5 Linux MMIO (C) | |
| 10/14 | Monday | 12 | Overflow | |
| 10/16 | Wednesday | 13 | Direct Memory Access I | P6 DMA Popcount (V) |
| 10/21 | Monday | 14 | Direct Memory Access II | |
| 10/23 | Wednesday | 15 | Pipelining I | P6 DMA Popcount (V) |
| 10/28 | Monday | – | Pipelining II | |
| 10/30 | Wednesday | – | NO CLASS | P7 Linux DMA (C) |
| 11/04 | Monday | 17 | Parallelism I | |
| 11/06 | Wednesday | 18 | Review | – |
| 11/11 | Monday | 19 | Exam | |
| 11/13 | Wednesday | 20 | Parallelism II | P8 Dot (V) |
| 11/18 | Monday | 21 | Parallelism III | |
| 11/20 | Wednesday | Overflow | P8 Dot (V) | |
| 11/25 | Monday | BREAK | ||
| 11/27 | Wednesday | BREAK | PX Accel Dot (V) | |
| 12/02 | Monday | Linux Kernel I | ||
| 12/04 | Wednesday | Linux Kernel II | PX Accel Dot (V) | |
| 12/09 | Monday | Report Reviews | ||
| 12/11 | Wednesday | Final Report Due @ 10.00am | PX Accel Dot (V) |