ECE 587 Hardware/Software Co-Design

Administrative Information

• Course Syllabus
• IIT Code of Academic Honesty
• IEEE Code of Conduct
• Textbook (Online)

TA Information

Time and link for office hours can be found at Blackboard.

• Guanting Chen (gchen30@hawk.iit.edu)

Lecture Slides

Lecture recordings can be found at Blackboard.

• Lecture 01 (1/8)
• Lecture 02 (1/10)
• Lecture 03 (1/17)
• Lecture 04 (1/22)
• Lecture 05 (1/24)
• Lecture 06 (1/29)
• Lecture 07 (1/31)
• Lecture 08 (2/5)
• Lecture 09 (2/7)
• Lecture 10 (2/12)
• Lecture 11 (2/14)
• Lecture 12 (2/19)
• Lecture 13 (2/21)
• Lecture 14 (2/26)
• Lecture 15 (2/28)
• Lecture 16 (3/4)
• Lecture 17 (3/6)
• Lecture 18 (3/18)
  CUDA C/C++ Basics
• Lecture 19 (3/20)
• Lecture 20 (3/25)
• Lecture 21 (3/27)
• Lecture 22 (4/1) Future Trend I (no in-person/zoom lecture)
  Please watch HC2023-K2: Hardware for Deep Learning
• Lecture 23 (4/3) Accelerators I
  Convey 2009
  Maxeler 2015
• Lecture 24 (4/8) Future Trend II (no in-person/zoom lecture)
  Please watch HC2023-K1: Exciting Directions for ML Models and the Implications for Computing Hardware
• Lecture 25 (4/10) Accelerators II
  Microsoft 2014
  Microsoft 2017
• Lecture 26 (4/15) Accelerators III
  Google 2017
  Google 2020
• Lecture 27 (4/17) Accelerators IV
  Cerebras 2019
  Cerebras 2020
• Lecture 28 (4/22) Interconnects I
  ATPESC 2020
• Lecture 29 (4/24) Interconnects II
  Google OCP 2023
  Google 2023

Homeworks

Please submit homeworks online at Blackboard.

• Homework 01 (2/4)
• Homework 01 Solutions
• Homework 02 (2/25)
• Homework 02 Solutions
• Homework 03 (3/17)
• Homework 03 Solutions

Project

• VM Setup (no report, complete before 3/3)
• Literature Survey (due 3/31, 4/28)
• System Exploration (due 4/7, 5/1)
• RISC-V Prototyping (due 4/14)