1 - ECpE 583 (Reconfigurable Computing): XPS / MP3 Overview + Midterm Overview Iowa State University (Ames) CPRE 583 Reconfigurable Computing Lecture 15:

1 - ECpE 583 (Reconfigurable Computing): XPS / MP3 Overview + Midterm Overview Iowa State University (Ames)

CPRE 583Reconfigurable ComputingLecture 15: Wed 10/14/2011

(XPS/MP3 Overview + Midterm Overview)

Instructor: Dr. Phillip Jones([email protected])

Reconfigurable Computing LaboratoryIowa State University

Ames, Iowa, USA

http://class.ece.iastate.edu/cpre583/


•Project Teams: Let me know if you do not have a team!

•MP2 due Friday 10/14

•Project Proposal due Friday 10/14 (midnight)– High-level topic, and high plan for execution– I’ll give feedback– Project proposal Class presentation on Wed 10/19

• 5-10 power point slides

•MP3 assigned this eveing

Announcements/Reminders


Project Grading Breakdown

• 50% Final Project Demo• 30% Final Project Report

– 20% of your project report grade will come from your 5-6 project updates. Friday’s midnight

• 20% Final Project Presentation


• FPL• FPT• FCCM• FPGA• DAC• ICCAD• Reconfig• RTSS• RTAS• ISCA

Projects Ideas: Relevant conferences

• Micro• Super Computing• HPCA• IPDPS


• Teams Formed and Topic: Mon 10/10– Project idea in Power Point 3-5 slides

• Motivation (why is this interesting, useful)• What will be the end result• High-level picture of final product

– Project team list: Name, Responsibility• High-level Plan/Proposal: Fri 10/14

– Power Point 5-10 slides (presentation to class Wed 10/19)• System block diagrams• High-level algorithms (if any)• Concerns

– Implementation– Conceptual

• Related research papers (if any)

Projects: Target Timeline


• Work on projects: 10/19 - 12/9– Weekly update reports

• More information on updates will be given• Presentations: Finals week

– Present / Demo what is done at this point– 15-20 minutes (depends on number of projects)

• Final write up and Software/Hardware turned in: Day of final (TBD)

Projects: Target Timeline


Initial Project Proposal Slides (5-10 slides)

• Project team list: Name, Responsibility (who is project leader)– Team size: 3-4 (5 case-by-case)

• Project idea• Motivation (why is this interesting, useful)• What will be the end result• High-level picture of final product

• High-level Plan– Break project into mile stones

• Provide initial schedule: I would initially schedule aggressively to have project complete by Thanksgiving. Issues will pop up to cause the schedule to slip.

– System block diagrams– High-level algorithms (if any)– Concerns

• Implementation• Conceptual

• Research papers related to you project idea


Weekly Project Updates

• The current state of your project write up– Even in the early stages of the project you

should be able to write a rough draft of the Introduction and Motivation section

• The current state of your Final Presentation– Your Initial Project proposal presentation

(Due Wed 10/19). Should make for a starting point for you Final presentation

• What things are work & not working• What roadblocks are you running into


Common Questions


Common Questions


6-input Luts

MidTerm (Q1.a)


i) What would be 2 disadvantages of using 3-LUTs instead of 6-LUTs in part a)? (2pts)

ii) If you had to manufacture an FPGA device to support applications that used MANY 2-to-1 multiplexers, would you make the FPGA primitives 6-LUTs or 3-LUTs. What would be 2 advantages of using your choice compared to the alternative? (2 pts)

iii) In general discuss some of the trade-offs between having an FPGA made up of 4-LUTs vs 20-LUTs (3 pts)

MidTerm (Q1.b)


) Discuss the reasons why an application implemented using an FPGA will typically be lower performing than an application implemented as an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) (5 pts)

ii) What are some of the reasons why a person (or company) may choose to use an FPGA instead of an ASIC to implement an application? (4pts)

MidTerm (Q1.c)


• LUT configurability: How many different ways can a 6-LUT be configured? Explain how you arrived at your number. (Note it my help to use a figure for your explanation) (5pts)

MidTerm (Q1.d)


MidTerm (Q2.a)


MidTerm (Q2.b)


process(clk) if(clk’event and clk =1) then C <= B;end if;

end process process(X, B, C, D, E) if(X = ‘0’) then A <= B or C;

else case D is when ‘00’ => A<= E and B; when ‘01’ => A<= E xor B; when ‘10’ => A<= ‘1’; when ‘11’ => A<= ‘0’; end case; end if;end process

MidTerm (Q2.c)


process(sel, a, b)begin if(sel = ‘1’ and b=’1’) then z <= ‘1’; elsif(sel = ‘0’ and b = ‘1’ and a = ‘0’) then z <= c; end if; end process; process(sel_1)begin z <= ‘1’; if(sel_1 = ‘0’) then z <= ‘1’; else z <= ‘0’; end if;end process;

MidTerm (Q2.d)


MidTerm (Q3.a)


Why is Reconfiguration management important?

MidTerm (Q3.b)


a) Write a line of VHDL that converts a lower case ASCII letter to an upper case letter (Note: you do not need to use exact numbers) (5 pts) b) What did the “TX_busy_n” signal of the UART interface indicate? Explain how you made use of this signal in your MP 1 (5 pts)

c) What did the “RX_full” signal of the UART interface indicate? Explain how you made use of this signal in your MP 1 (5 pts)

MidTerm (Q4)


• Tool for combining HW with SW.

XPS


MP3

FPGA

PC Display.cEthernet(UDP/IP)

Power PC

User Defined Instruction

Monitor VGA


MP3

FPGA


Power PC


Monitor VGA


MP3

FPGA


Power PC


Monitor VGA

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Documents

project complete

final project demo

final project report

slides project team

project report grade

case project idea motivation

project leader team

current state