ECE 645

Computer Arithmetic: Implementations in Hardware and Software
Spring 2007

Recommended Textbooks

Milos D. Ercegovac and Tomas Lang, Digital Arithmetic, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2004.

Isreal Koren, Computer Arithmetic Algorithms, 2nd edition, A. K. Peters, Natick, MA, 2002, ISBN 1-56881-160-8.

Sundar Rajan, Essential VHDL: RTL Synthesis Done Right, S & G Publishing, 1998.

Volnei A. Pedroni, Circuit Design with VHDL, The MIT Press, 2004, ISBN: 0-262-16224-5.

Other literature
 

Course Description
 

• Aldec Active HDL
• Synplicity Synplify Pro
• Xilinx ISE or Xilinx WebPACK
• ModelSim Xilinx Edition
• Synopsys Design Analyzer
• Synopsys PrimeTime

Lecture slides

Lecture 4 - Carry-Lookahead and Carry-Select Adders

       2 slides per page            3 slides per page

Lecture 3 - Basic Adders and Counters - NEW!!!

       2 slides per page            3 slides per page

Lecture 2 - Number Representations: Residue Number Systems, Floating-Point Representation, Galois Fields

       2 slides per page            3 slides per page

Lecture 1 - Number Representation

       2 slides per page            3 slides per page

Posted gradually one day before a given lecture.

See Course Webpage from Spring 2006 for slides from the previous year.

Projects

SPECIFICATION OF PROJECT 1

See Course Webpage from Spring 2006 for projects from the previous year.

Homework Assignments

Homework 3 - due Monday, February 26

Homework 2 - due Monday, February 19

Homework 1 - Part 1 - due Monday, February 5, Part 2 due Monday, February 12

See Course Webpage from Spring 2006 for homework assignments from the previous year.

Reference Material

Computer Arithmetic Algorithms Simulators

Simulator by Isreal Koren

VHDL

VHDL Instructions: Templates & Examples

VHDL Tips & Tricks - a very useful set of slides from the Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich

The Low Carb VHDL Tutorial - by Bryan Mealy

ESA VHDL Modeling Guidelines
 

Introduction to FPGA devices and tools
 

Aldec Active HDL

Active HDL Student Edition
 

Xilinx ISE WebPACK

Xilinx ISE WebPACK - main page

Xilinx ISE WebPACK - FAQ
 

Synopsys

Introduction to Synopsys

Remote Access to Synopsys

ECE 645 - Spring 2004

ECE 545 - Fall 2004

ECE 645 - Spring 2002

Practice Exams

DISCLAIMER: The exams from previous years are not representative of the material covered in class this semester, and may include questions you are not required to know solutions to, and omit material covered in the class this year.

Practice Midterm Exam from Spring 2005

Practice Midterm Exam from Spring 2004

Midterm Exam 2 from Spring 2006

Midterm Exam 1 from Spring 2005

Midterm Exam 2 from Spring 2005

Midterm Exam 1 from Spring 2004

Midterm Exam 1 from Spring 2002

Midterm Exam 1 from Spring 2000