EE 4755 - Lectures

Information on the lectures given in class are listed below, divided into roughly one-week sets. Information includes when the lectures where given, and where applicable, links to slides used in class. When possible material will be added before it is used in class. If material is not yet available see lectures from last year.

• Midterm Exam Review
  Covered 27 October 2025
  Additional Material
  • 2024 Midterm Exam
  • 2024 Midterm Exam solution
  • 2023 Midterm Exam
  • 2023 Midterm Exam solution
  • 2022 Midterm Exam
  • 2022 Midterm Exam solution
  • 2021 Midterm Exam
  • 2021 Midterm Exam solution
  • EE 4755 Exams

• Final Exam Review
  Covered 5 Dec 2025
  Additional Material
  • 2024 Final Exam
  • 2023 Final Exam
  • Solution to 2023 Final Exam
  • 2022 Final Exam
  • Solution to 2022 Final Exam
  • 2021 Final Exam
  • Solution to 2021 Final Exam

• Set 1: Course Information and EDA Overview
  Covered 25, 27, 29 August, 3 September 2025
  Additional Material
  • Right shift unit variations.

• Synthesis Overview
  Covered 5 September 2025
  

• Verilog Review
  Covered 5, 8, 10 September 2025
  

• Set 010: Behavioral Code Basics
  Covered 10, 12, 15 September 2025
  

• Basic Simulation
  Covered 15, 17 September 2025
  

• Synthesis of Combinational Logic in Implicit Structural Code
  Covered 17, 19 September 2025
  

• Set 020: Objects and Data Types
  Covered 19, 22, 24, 26, 29 September 2025
  Additional Material
  • 2018 Homework 3: A sort2 module with mixed integer/FP keys.
  • Correct, but costlier-than-necessary solution worked out in class.
  • A lower-cost solution to 2018 Homework 3
  • Sample problem: use FP in linear interpolation module.
  • Solution

• Elaboration, Generate Statements
  Covered 29 September 2025, 1, 3, 6 October 2025
  Additional Material
  • 2019 HW 2: Count Leading Zeros
  • 2019 HW 2 (clz) solution.
  • Recursive (tree) multiplexor descriptions.
  • 2018 Homework 5: Recursive description of Batcher sorter.
  • Homework 5 solution.

• Simple Cost and Performance Model
  Covered 8, 10, 13, 15, 20 October 2025
  Additional Material
  • Timing and cost problems from 2017 Final Exam Problem 3 (big mux).
  • Solution to 2017 Final Exam
  • Timing and cost problems from 2016 Final Exam (problems 2 and 4, fcfs_fit and greedy_fit)
  • 2016 Final Exam Solution.
  • 2022 Midterm Exam Problem 3a, delay and critical path.
  • 2022 Midterm Exam Solution.

• Synthesis of Behavioral Combinational Logic Descriptions
  Covered 20, 22, 24 October 2025
  Additional Material
  • 2018 Homework 6 solution.
  • Problems 2, 3a, and 5 from the 2016 Midterm Exam
  • 2016 Homework 4 solution.

• Synthesis of Behavioral Sequential Logic Descriptions
  Covered 31 October, 5 , 7 November 2025
  Additional Material
  • Expanded versions of Verilog examples from slides.
  • A collection of solved problems related to sequential logic, including the problems covered in class during the 2022 semester.

• Sequential Code Example: Multi-Step (2016 FE Prob 1)
  Covered 7, 10 November 2025
  

• Pipelining, Latency v. Throughput
  Covered 10, 12 November 2025
  

• Combinational v. Sequential Multiplier Implementation
  Covered 14, 17 November 2025
  

• Pipelined Multiplier Implementation
  Covered 17, 19 November 2025
  

• Sample Problem: Pipelined Accumulated Sum (add_accum, 2019 Homework 6)
  Covered 19, 21, November 2025
  Additional Material
  • Unsolved add-acum code.

• Sequential Code Example: bit_keeper (2021 Homework 4)
  Covered 24, 26 November 2025, 1 December 2025
  Additional Material
  • Bit keeper, unsolved.

• Sample Problem: Content-Addressable Memory (CAM)
  Covered 1, 3, 5 December 2025