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Course Notes, Lecture Slides, and Supplements

• Notes, slides, lab manual

  slides-up1	Best format for electronic copy to bring to lecture
  slides-up4	Best format for paper copy to bring to lecture
  slides-anno	Annotated slides from lecture. I will continue to post these slides as long as class attendance remains above above 70.
  notes	the textbook for the course, use as a reference

• Tutorial problems and solutions [problems] [solutions]
• Lab manual [PDF]
• P6.2: Pipelining with overlapping stages (strategy for solving problem) [PDF]
• Online lectures and Kahoots

  Suggested viewing software:

  Windows	VLC
  Linux	dragonplayer
  Mac	please let me know if there are any problems

  On some players, the sound is missing, or the video is upside down.

  Sec 1.14	Legal, synthesizable, good				kahoot
  Sec 1.6	Delta cycle simulation				kahoot
  Sec 1.8	RTL simulation				kahoot
  Sec 3.2.3	FPGA area for arithmetic				kahoot
  Sec 4.4	FSMs and parcels				kahoot
  Sec 4.7	Interparcel variables				kahoot
  Sec 5.1	Dataflow diagrams				kahoot
  Sec 5.2	Control tables				kahoot
  Sec 6.1	Pipelining				kahoot
  Sec 6.2	Retiming				kahoot
  Sec 7.4	Performance				kahoot
  Tutorial problem 7.7	Waterluvian filter on new FPGA chip	video	pdf
  Sec 8.1.2:	Clock related timing definition	video
  Sec 8.1.3 -- 8.1.5:	Storage related timing definitions	video	quiz	sol	kahoot
  Prob 8.1:	Timing parameters	video
  Sec 8.2.1 -- 8.2.3:	Store mode and load mode for a latch	video
  Sec 8.2.4:	Clock-to-Q analysis	video
  Sec 8.2.5:	Setup analysis	video
  Sec 8.2.6--8.2.7:	Hold analysis and bad latch	video
  Prob 8.3:	Latch analysis	video
  Prob 8.4:	Latch analysis	video
  Sec 8.4.1--8.4.2:	Critical path and longest path	video
  Sec 8.4.3:	Monotone speedup	video
  Sec 8.6.1:	Defining delay	video
  Sec 8.6.2:	Modeling circuits for timing analysis	video
  Sec 8.6.3:	Calculating delay	video
  Sec 8.6.4:	Example: Two buffers	video
  Sec 8.7:	Elmore delay model	video
  P 8.8:	Fanout delay model	video	PDF
  P 8.9:	Super vias	video	PDF
  P 8.10:	Zeraf	video	PDF

• Supplemental material
  • Blank sheets for delta-cycle simulation [PDF] [Excel]
  • Different categories of VHDL processes [PDF]
  • Video of disembodied lecture for memory and FSM example Sec 4.8.3.3. Suggested viewing software: Windows: VLC, Linux: dragonplayer, Mac unknown. On some players, the sound is missing, or the video is upside down.
  • Performance over time and Bitcoin [IEEE Computer article] [lecture notes]