CS 534 ME

Course Schedule

Note: this schedule is subject to change. Please refer back to here for the most recent version. Major changes will be announced in class.
Date Number Title & Details
Jan 16 Class 01
Lecture:
Course Overview; The Evolution of Mobile Computing
Media: Slides • Video
Jan 18 Class 02
Lecture:
Energy as a First-Class Design Metric
Required Reading: Grochowski and Annavaram, "Energy Per Instruction Trends in Intel® Microprocessors", Technology@Intel, 2005
Media: Slides • Video
Jan 23 Class 03
Paper Discussion:
Trends in Mobile CPUs
Required Reading: Esmaeilzadeh et al., "Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling", ISCA, 2011
Required Reading + Paper Review: Halpern et al., "Mobile CPU's Rise to Power: Quantifying the Impact of Generational Mobile CPU Design Trends on Performance, Energy, and User Satisfaction", HPCA, 2016
Media: Slides
Jan 25 Class 04
Lecture:
Making Caches Great Again
Media: Slides
Jan 26 Quiz 01
covers Classes 01–04; due Jan 30
Jan 30 Class 05
Paper Discussion:
Mobile CPU Microarchitecture
Required Reading: Kim et al., "Utilization-Aware Load Balancing for the Energy Efficient Operation of the big.LITTLE Processor", DATE, 2014
Required Reading: Jiménez and Lin, "Dynamic Branch Prediction with Perceptrons", HPCA, 2001
Required Reading + Paper Review: Grayson et al., "Evolution of the Samsung Exynos CPU Microarchitecture", ISCA, 2020
Media: Slides
Feb 01 Class 06
Lecture:
A Detailed Look at DRAM
Media: Slides
Feb 06 Class 07
Paper Discussion:
Memory Design for Heterogeneous Systems
Required Reading: Usui et al., "DASH: Deadline-Aware High-Performance Memory Scheduler for Heterogeneous Systems with Hardware Accelerators", TACO, 2016
Required Reading + Paper Review: Power et al., "Supporting x86-64 Address Translation for 100s of GPU Lanes", HPCA, 2014
Media: Slides
Feb 08 Class 08
Lecture:
Advanced DRAM Design
Media: Slides
Feb 09 Quiz 02
covers Classes 05–07; due Feb 13
Feb 13 Class 09
Lecture:
Hard Drives & Solid-State Storage
Media: Slides
Feb 15 Class 10
Lecture:
An Overview of Systems-on-Chip
Media: Slides
Feb 16 Project
team formation & list of initial ideas due
Feb 20 Class 11
Lecture:
Interconnects in SoCs
Media: Slides
Feb 22 Class 12
Lecture:
On-Chip Network Management
Media: Slides
Feb 23 Quiz 03
covers Classes 08–10; due Feb 27
Feb 27 Class 13
Paper Discussion:
Networks for SoCs
Required Reading: Chen et al., "SMART: A Single-Cycle Reconfigurable NoC for SoC Applications", DATE, 2013
Required Reading + Paper Review: Tan et al., "Stitch: Fusible Heterogeneous Accelerators Enmeshed with Many-Core Architecture for Wearables", ISCA, 2018
Media: Slides
Feb 29 Project
in-class project consultation with TA
Mar 04 Project
project proposal & background writeup due
Mar 05 Class 14
Paper Discussion:
Accelerator Design Methodologies
Required Reading: Shao et al., "Aladdin: A Pre-RTL, Power-Performance Accelerator Simulator Enabling Large Design Space Exploration of Customized Architectures", ISCA, 2014
Required Reading + Paper Review: Hameed et al., "Understanding Sources of Inefficiency in General-Purpose Chips", ISCA, 2010
Media: Slides
Mar 07 Class 15
Lecture:
GPUs for Graphics and General-Purpose Programs
Media: Slides
Mar 07 Quiz 04
covers Classes 11–15; due Mar 18
Mar 12 BREAK
No Class
Mar 14 BREAK
No Class
Mar 19 Class 16
Lecture:
Data-Parallel Acceleration
Media: Slides
Mar 21 Class 17
Lecture:
Accelerators for Machine Learning
Media: Slides
Mar 26 Class 18
Paper Discussion:
State-of-the-Art ML Accelerators
Required Reading: Boroumand et al., "Google Neural Network Models for Edge Devices: Analyzing and Mitigating Machine Learning Inference Bottlenecks", PACT, 2021
Required Reading + Paper Review: Chen et al., "Eyeriss v2: A Flexible Accelerator for Emerging Deep Neural Networks on Mobile Devices", JETCAS, 2019
Media: Slides
Mar 28 Class 19
Lecture:
Multimedia Accelerators
Media: Slides
Mar 29 Quiz 05
covers Classes 16–18; due Apr 02
Apr 02 -
Make-Up Slot
Apr 04 Class 20
Lecture:
Computing at the Edge: What Does It Mean?
Media: Slides
Apr 05 Quiz 06
covers Classes 19–20; due Apr 09
Apr 09 Class 21
Lecture:
Applications for Edge Computing
Media: Slides
Apr 11 Class 22
Group Presentations:
Project Midpoint Updates
Apr 16 Class 23
Paper Discussion:
Edge Computing Architectures
Required Reading: Li et al., "Edge-Oriented Computing Paradigms: A Survey on Architecture Design and System Management", CSUR, 2019
Required Reading + Paper Review: Richins et al., "Missing the Forest for the Trees: End-to-End AI Application Performance in Edge Data Centers", HPCA, 2020
Media: Slides
Apr 18 Class 24
Lecture:
Data Centers and the Climate
Media: Slides
Apr 19 Quiz 07
covers Classes 21–24; due Apr 23
Apr 23 Class 25
Lecture:
Processing-in-Memory
Media: Slides
Apr 25 Class 26
Guest Lecture:
Wireless Networks
Media: Slides
Apr 30 Class 27
Student Presentations:
Non-Conventional Architectures
Media: Slides
May 01 Quiz 08
covers Classes 25–27; due May 05
May 09 Project
final project report due