Silicon Compilation

Graduate / Professional

A course for seniors and first-year graduate students on compiling computations into digital circuits using asynchronous design techniques. Emphasis is on the synthesis of circuits that are robust to uncertainties in gate and wire delays by the process of program transformations. Topics include circuits as concurrent programs, delay-insensitive design techniques, synthesis of circuits from programs, timing analysis and performance optimization, pipelining, and case studies of complex asynchronous designs. MW 11:35am-12:50pm