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A comprehensive study of the high-level synthesis and
optimization algorithms for designing high performance systems
with multiple CPUs or functional units
for critical applications such as Multimedia, Signal processing,
Telecommunications, Network and Wireless applications, etc.
Topics including algorithms for architecture-level synthesis,
embedded software and systems, scheduling, real-time systems,
highly parallel processor array design
and mapping, optimal code generations for DSP processor,
and
hardware/software codesigns.
The department has offered very few courses about computer architectures and parallel systems. I hope that this course will fill some of the gaps. It will be very useful for your future career or advanced research because nowadays a system designer needs to understand software, OS, and architectures. I may not offer it again next time, so do not miss this chance.
My style of graduate teaching is to give students motivations and directions. I believe that a good graduate student should learn how to do research rather than spending all the time remembering materials or preparing for exams. There will be no in-class exams. A few homework will be given and term projects will be developed through a team work. Sometimes students will give presentations in class. I hope it is small class because I like to know each student personally in class. You will find that this course will be quite different from other grad. courses offered in UTD. And I am sure that you will enjoy it. Feel free to come to chat with me at anytime for anything. My office is at ES 3.226.
You do not need to worry about if you have enough pre-requisite knowledge or not. If you know the basic digital logic, and basic algorithms, you are more than enough. Don't worry. I am a good teacher. I will cover the required knowledge in class.
Revised by Edwin Sha - 2010.