1. 1 - CPRE 583 (Reconfigurable Computing): Exam 1 Review Session Iowa State University (Ames) CPRE 583 Reconfigurable Computing Lecture 13: Wed 10/5/2011 (Exam 1: Review Session) Instructor: Dr. Phillip Jones (phjones@iastate.edu) Reconfigurable Computing Laboratory Iowa State University Ames, Iowa, USA http://class.ee.iastate.edu/cpre583/

2. 2 - CPRE 583 (Reconfigurable Computing): Exam 1 Review Session Iowa State University (Ames) First exam: Fri 10/7 in class (take home due following Monday at midnight) –In class portion closed notes Distance students: sent an email with how you’ll take this. –Take home, open everything (no interacting with others) Project Teams: Form by Monday 10/10 MP2 due Friday 10/14 Project Advertising/Discussion (Wed 10/5 in class) –Blackboard discussion group is up Announcements/Reminders

3. 3 - CPRE 583 (Reconfigurable Computing): Exam 1 Review Session Iowa State University (Ames) Project Grading Breakdown 50% Final Project Demo 30% Final Project Report –20% of your project report grade will come from your 5-6 project updates. Friday’s midnight 20% Final Project Presentation

4. 4 - CPRE 583 (Reconfigurable Computing): Exam 1 Review Session Iowa State University (Ames) FPL FPT FCCM FPGA DAC ICCAD Reconfig RTSS RTAS ISCA Projects Ideas: Relevant conferences Micro Super Computing HPCA IPDPS

5. 5 - CPRE 583 (Reconfigurable Computing): Exam 1 Review Session Iowa State University (Ames) Teams Formed and Topic: Mon 10/10 –Project idea in Power Point 3-5 slides Motivation (why is this interesting, useful) What will be the end result High-level picture of final product –Project team list: Name, Responsibility High-level Plan/Proposal: Fri 10/14 –Power Point 5-10 slides (presentation to class Wed 10/19) System block diagrams High-level algorithms (if any) Concerns –Implementation –Conceptual Related research papers (if any) Projects: Target Timeline

6. 6 - CPRE 583 (Reconfigurable Computing): Exam 1 Review Session Iowa State University (Ames) Work on projects: 10/19 - 12/9 –Weekly update reports More information on updates will be given Presentations: Finals week –Present / Demo what is done at this point –15-20 minutes (depends on number of projects) Final write up and Software/Hardware turned in: Day of final (TBD) Projects: Target Timeline

7. 7 - CPRE 583 (Reconfigurable Computing): Exam 1 Review Session Iowa State University (Ames) Initial Project Proposal Slides (5-10 slides) Project team list: Name, Responsibility (who is project leader) –Team size: 3-4 (5 case-by-case) Project idea Motivation (why is this interesting, useful) What will be the end result High-level picture of final product High-level Plan –Break project into mile stones Provide initial schedule: I would initially schedule aggressively to have project complete by Thanksgiving. Issues will pop up to cause the schedule to slip. –System block diagrams –High-level algorithms (if any) –Concerns Implementation Conceptual Research papers related to you project idea

8. 8 - CPRE 583 (Reconfigurable Computing): Exam 1 Review Session Iowa State University (Ames) Weekly Project Updates The current state of your project write up –Even in the early stages of the project you should be able to write a rough draft of the Introduction and Motivation section The current state of your Final Presentation –Your Initial Project proposal presentation (Due Wed 10/19). Should make for a starting point for you Final presentation What things are work & not working What roadblocks are you running into

9. 9 - CPRE 583 (Reconfigurable Computing): Exam 1 Review Session Iowa State University (Ames) Common Questions

10. 10 - CPRE 583 (Reconfigurable Computing): Exam 1 Review Session Iowa State University (Ames) Review of topics that have been covered Answer general questions Take home portion: every thing is fair game (lecture or assigned readings) Overview

11. 11 - CPRE 583 (Reconfigurable Computing): Exam 1 Review Session Iowa State University (Ames) Main Topics C VHDL (4 lectures + 1 HW) Basic FPGA components –LUTs –DFFs –Routing resources –Optimized cores MP1 (basic questions) Reconfiguration Management (why important, tradeoffs for different approaches) Design questions (similar to in class exercise)

12. 12 - CPRE 583 (Reconfigurable Computing): Exam 1 Review Session Iowa State University (Ames) VHDL VHDL -> block diagram Block diagram -> VHDL Simple timing diagrams Debugging VHDL

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22. 22 - CPRE 583 (Reconfigurable Computing): Exam 1 Review Session Iowa State University (Ames) Questions/Comments/Concerns Write down –Main point of lecture –One thing that’s still not quite clear –If everything is clear, then give an example of how to apply something from lecture OR

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