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.

• 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, ... 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.