Spring 2013

EECE7398: Special Topics High Performance Computing

Modern computers take advantage of multiple threads and multiple cores to accelerate scientific and engineering applications. This course will cover accelerating scientific applications on computer clusters, many-core processors and Graphical Processing Units (GPUs). Topics covered will include sequential computer architecture, parallel computer architecture, and many core processing. Implementation of computer arithmetic and how it varies on different computer architectures will be highlighted. Porting sequential applications to parallel architectures will be studied. The course will include an individual project where each student is expected to implement an application, port that application to several different architectures and compare the results.

Fall 2012

EECE2322: Digital Logic Design

ECE2322 presents the fundamentals of digital logic analysis and synthesis. You will learn the basic concepts of logic design, including combinational and sequential logic. An important part of this course involves the design and simulation of digital circuits. In addition to handwritten homework, you will use the Xilinx ISE and Modelsim simulation tools. The companion laboratory course, ECEU323 provides an opportunity to design, build and test digital circuits. The labs range in complexity from simple combinational design to a more complicated sequential design. All designs will be implemented with Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Arrays.

Spring 2012

ECE4530: Hardware Description Languages and Synthesis

ECE4530 is a course that covers Hardware Description Languages (HDLs) and the way that they are synthesized to digital circuits. The main goal of this course is to teach digital logic design through the use of the VHDL hardware description language. You will learn how to design digital circuits with the VHDL language, and synthesize them into working FPGA designs. The course covers combinational logic design, sequential logic design, and system design using VHDL and commercially available synthesis tools. In addition, techniques for writing testbenches to test HDL specifications will be covered. The course includes a number of programming assignments where you will describe designs in VHDL and synthesize them to Xilinx FPGAs using the Xilinx ISE series tools. The Xilinx ISE simulator will be used for simulation. There will be a project as well as a final exam for this course.

Fall 2011

ECE7352: Computer Architecture

ECE 7352 is a graduate level course in Computer Architecture. Topics include all aspects of computer systems including the microprocessor, memory and I/O. The connection between architecture and the software that drives it will be discussed. Processor architecture topics presented will include instruction set architectures, pipelining, superscalar, and out-of-order execution and completion. Memory topics will include caching, prefetching, and virtual memory. Topics in storage and networking may also be discussed. Performance modeling and analysis are fundamental themes of the course. There will be an emphasis on parallelism and multicore architectures.