EE634 VLSI Array Processors for Signal Processing

(a.k.a. SoC ASIC Architectures for Multimedia Processing)

Fall 2008

Instructor: Ilker Hamzaoglu
Office: MDBF 1037 

Textbooks

· High-Performance Embedded Computing: Architectures, Applications, and Methodologies, Wayne Wolf, Morgan Kaufmann, 2006

· Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson,  Morgan Kaufmann, 3rd Edition, 2003

Reference Books

• Image and Video Compression Standards: Algorithms and Architectures, Vasudev Bhaskaran and Konstantinos Konstantinides, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997
• VLSI Digital Signal Processing Systems: Design and Implementation, Keshab K. Parhi, Wiley, 1999

Reference Materials

• UCB CS152 Fall99 Lecture Notes by John Kubiatowicz
• UCB CS252 Spr01 Lecture Notes by David Patterson
• Billion_Transistor_Architectures
• Billion_Transistor_Architectures_Retrospective
• ISCA 25 years Retrospective
• Philips_Trimedia_Processor
• Sw_Hw_Data_Prefetching_Performance
• Qual_Exam_Presentation_Prefetching
• VLSI_Implementation_of_Multimedia_Systems
• Motorola_RSVP_Micro2003

Lecture Notes (Accessible only from Sabanci University Intranet)

• Multimedia Processing
• Computer Architecture Introduction
• Microprocessor Datapath Control
• Singlecycle Multicycle Processor Review
• Pipelining Memory Hierarchy Review
• Exploiting_ILP_with_Dynamic_Techniques
• Exploiting_ILP_with_Static_Techniques
• Memory_Hierarchy_Design
• Vector_Processors
• Multiprocessors
• Interconnection_Networks
• Parallel_Programming
• VLSI_Array_Processors
• VLSI_Implementation_of_Multimedia_Systems

Final Exam Sample Questions