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February 9, 2018 | Organization | - | Organization | February 9, 2018 |
February 9, 2018 | Introduction, Models of computation | [Par09] | Introduction | February 9, 2018 |
February 16, 2018 | Architecture synthesis and scheduling | [Ger99] | Architectural Synthesis | February 13, 2012 |
February 16, 2018 | Overlapped scheduling | [Ger98] | ||
February 16, 2018 | Algorithm transformations, Part 1 | [Par95] | Transformations Addendum | February 19, 2012 |
February 23, 2018 | Algorithm transformations, Part 2 | [Par95] | Transformations Addendum | February 19, 2012 |
February 23, 2018 | Fixed-point design | [Bou08] | Fixed-Point Design | February 23, 2018 |
March 2, 2018 |
No lecture, holiday week | |||
March 9, 2018 | The Arx RTL Language and Toolset |
[Hof07] |
Arx |
March 9, 2018 |
March 9 & 16, 2018 | The CORDIC Algorithm | [And98] and [Loe00] | CORDIC | March 16, 2018 | March 16, 2018 | Polyphase implementation of multirate filters | [Lan02] and [Vai90] | Polyphase implementation | March 16, 2018 |
March 23, 2018 |
Multiplierless filter design | [Hew00], [Vor07], [Aks14] and [Kot03] | Multiplierless Filter Design | March 20, 2017 |
March 23, 2018 | Modern DSP Architectures |
[Anj11] |
DSP Architectures | March 20, 2017 | March 30, 2018 |
No lecture, Good Friday |
April 6, 2018 | FFT basics + FFT Hardware Structures | Sections 9.2+9.3 of [Chi12], [He98] | FFT basics and FFT hardware | April 6, 2018 |
April 6, 2018 | Software synthesis | Sections I and II of [Bha00] Not lectured in in academic year 2017-2018 (optional text) |
Software Synthesis | April 6, 2016 |
April 6, 2018 | Code generation | Sections III and IV of [Bha00] | Code Generation | April 6, 2014 |
April 6, 2018 | Case study: simultaneous design of processor and compiler | [Goo05] | - | - |
Caption of Figure 6: last subscript of y should be n-1 instead of n.
Right column of Page 856: Read Figure 9(b) where 9(a) is mentioned and vice versa.
Contents of Figure 17: In order to be consistent with next figures, rewrite "x = a - b" and "y = a - b + c * d".
Those interested in a detailed analysis of the probability density function of the truncation error after multiplication can consult the followin non-compulsory paper:
Ahmadi, A. and M. Zwolinski, Fixed-Point Multiplication: A Probabilistic Bit-Pattern View, Microelectronics Reliability, Vol. 51(4), pp 790-796, (April 2011). Online copy (only in UT domain).
You can skip Seciton 11.3 (2D FIR filters).
Page 203, halfway bottom paragraph: twice add a minus sign to 2's exponent (so 2**n should become 2**-n).
Page 204, Equation 11.10: the "close" parenthesis with exponent 2 should move to the end of the equation.
You can skip Section 6.5.3 on the efficient computation of the iteration-period bound.
You can skip Section 12.4.3 on force-directed scheduling.
Optional text!
Correction for Equation 6: there should not be a factor 2 in front of h_LP(m).
You can skip Sections 6 (folding) and 8 (relaxed look-ahead).
Comments on Figure 6. The issue is that unfolding can improve the processor utilization. The explanation in the paper is not correct.
The schedule shown in Figure 6(b) is rate optimal i.e. it repeats at the iteration-period bound (T0min) value of 3. In this period, the total of the computations to be performed is 9 (4 operations of 2 and 1 of 1) time units. The lower bound on the number of processors is 3 (=9/3). However, this bound cannot be met. The reason is that the schedule needs to repeat every 3 time units. This means that a separate processor is necessary for each of the operations A to D that take two time units (a processor that would execute two of them would require an iteration period of 4). One has an average processor utilization of 75% (9/12).
Figure 6(c) shows a schedule of the graph after 2-unfolding. The unfolded graph contains 2 iterations of the original graph. This schedule is also rate optimal which means that the 2 iterations are executed in 6 time units. The optimal number of processor in this situation would be again 3 (=18/6). There now exists a schedule that reaches 100% processor utilization (the available 6 time units per processor can now be filled optimally with operations of 2 time units).
In Figure 6(b), the operations A0, B0, C0, D0 and E0 belong to one iteration. The schedule has an iteration period of 3 (A1 starts 3 time units after A0, etc.) a latency of 7 (output on E0) and a span of 8 (end of D0).
In Figure 6(c), the operations A0/A1, B0/B1, C0/C1, D0/D1 and E0/E1 belong to one iteration. The schedule has an iteration period of 6 (A2 starts 6 time units after A0, etc.) and a latency and span of 12 (output on E1).
Comments on Figure 9(a). According to me, two inequalities are incorrect: r(A2) - r(M1) <= 2 and r(M4) - r(A3) <= -1.
Optional text.
Only study Section 1 (until page 6); the rest is optional.
The students concerned do not need to carry out all exercises. It is left up to them to spend as much time as needed to achieve the goals mentioned above. Depending on the students' background 10 to 20 hours are supposed to be sufficient. No reports need to be delivered. This activity does not contribute to the grading of this course.
Before doing any exercise, you need to set up a connection from your PC to server soc1.ewi.utwente.nl following the infrastructure-guidelines page.
Acronym |
Title |
Max. points |
Nominal
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after lecture of |
TRA | Scheduling, Assignment and Data-Flow Transformations | 20 |
20 hours | February 23, 2018 |
ARX | Designing in Arx | 20 |
20 hours | March 9, 2018 |
GFS | The GFSK Receiver | 60 |
60 hours | March 16, 2018 |
The mark will be based on the reports and the defense of your work in an oral examination session. The mark is basically the sum of points obtained for the projects divided by 10:
The performance at the oral exam can lead to a correction of at most one point up or down. In principle, the two members of a project team will receive the same mark unless there are strong indications of differences in performance.
The course needs to be terminated within the quarter in which it is taught. Because Project GFS was released late, some extra time will be tolerated as follows:
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