Fall 2022
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08/22 | Monday | 00 | Introduction | |
| 08/24 | Wednesday | 01 | Performance Profiling | P1 Circles (Py) |
| 08/29 | Monday | 02 | C Interfacing | |
| 08/31 | Wednesday | 03 | Buses I | P2 Exp Mov Avg (C) |
| 09/05 | Monday | 04 | Buses II | |
| 09/07 | Wednesday | 05 | MMIO I | P3 Exp Mov Avg (V) |
| 09/12 | Monday | 06 | MMIO II | |
| 09/14 | Wednesday | 06 | MMIO III | P4 MMIO Popcount (V) |
| 09/19 | Monday | 07 | Real Buses | |
| 09/21 | Wednesday | 08 | High Performance Buses | P4 MMIO Popcount (V) |
| 09/26 | Monday | 09 | Memory / Tristate | |
| 09/28 | Wednesday | 10 | C / Linux Interfacing I | P5 Linux MMIO (C) |
| 10/03 | Monday | 11 | C / Linux Interfacing II | |
| 10/05 | Wednesday | Overflow | P5 Linux MMIO (C) | |
| 10/10 | Monday | 12 | Direct Memory Access I | |
| 10/12 | Wednesday | 13 | Direct Memory Access II | P6 DMA Popcount (V) |
| 10/17 | Monday | 14 | Parallel Hardware I | |
| 10/19 | Wednesday | 15 | Parallel Hardware II | P6 DMA Popcount (V) |
| 10/24 | Monday | – | Parallel Hardware III | |
| 10/26 | Wednesday | – | Parallel Hardware IV | P7 Linux DMA (C) |
| 10/31 | Monday | 17 | ||
| 11/02 | Wednesday | 18 | Review | – |
| 11/07 | Monday | 19 | Exam | |
| 11/09 | Wednesday | 20 | Linux Kernel II | P8 Dot (V) |
| 11/14 | Monday | 21 | Linux Kernel III | |
| 11/16 | Wednesday | Overflow | PX Accel Dot (V) | |
| 11/21 | Monday | BREAK | ||
| 11/23 | Wednesday | BREAK | PX Accel Dot (V) | |
| 11/28 | Monday | PX Progress Reports | ||
| 11/30 | Wednesday | Overflow | PX Accel Dot (V) | |
| 12/05 | Monday | Overflow | ||
| 12/07 | Wednesday | Overflow | PX Accel Dot (V) | |
| 12/14 | Wednesday | - | Final Report Due @ 10.00am |