Advanced Hardware Architecture Design Techniques

3 units · Undergraduate

This course introduces highly-practical methodologies and techniques that can be broadly used to improve the efficiency and achieve speed-area-power tradeoffs in the design of application-specific hardware implementation architectures for various algorithms. Efficient implementation architectures of commonly used arithmetic and digital signal processing functional blocks will also be discussed. Prereq: 2050, and prereq or concur: 3561 or 3050; or Grad standing in Engr; or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 5194.08.