Lecture 1 Course Intro.ppt

Lecture 1: Course Intro Prof. Mike Schulte Application-Specific Processor Design ECE 450-11 Course/Instructor Info Name: Application-Specific Processor Design Number: ECE 450-11 Homepage: /~mschulte/ece450-00 Location: 416 Packard Lab Time: T, Th 5:00-6:15 PM Instructor: Michael Schulte Office: 326 Packard Lab Phone: 758-5036 Email: mschulte@ Office hours: T, Th 6:15-7:00 or by appointment Course Objectives To provide students with the background needed to design and analyze application-specific processors. Typical applications specific processing systems include: Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Systems Cellular telephones, wireless base-stations, modems Multimedia Systems High-definition TV, video conferencing, computer graphics Scientific Computing Systems Partial differential equation solvers, vector processors Control Systems Manufacturing plants, navigation systems, chemical processing Topics Covered Textbook: Peter Pirsch, Architectures for Digital Signal Processing, John Wiley Sons, 1998. Signal Processing Algorithms Implementations (Chapter 1) Computer Arithmetic (Chapter 3) Pipelining and Parallel Processing (Chapters 4) Array Architectures (Chapter 5) FIR, IIR, DFT, and FFT Implementations (Chapter 6 and 7) Digital Signal Processors and Multimedia Processors (Chapter 8) Multiprocessor Systems (Chapter 9) Implementation Strategies (Chapter 10) Other useful textbooks: Keshab Parhi, VLSI Digital Signal Processing Systems: Design and Implementation , John Wiley Sons, 1999. Vijay K. Madisetti, Digital Signal Processors : An Introduction to Rapid Prototyping and Design Synthesis, IEEE CS Press, 1995. Course schedule: /~mschulte/ece450-00/schedule.html Prerequisites and Grading Prerequisites: A previous course in computer architecture (e.g., ECE201) Experience with hardware description languages (e.g., VHDL or Verilog) Course does not assume a knowledge of DSP or transistor level design. Grading Homeworks : 20% First exam : 20% S