Course unit, curriculum year 2023–2024
COMP.CE.320
High-level Synthesis, 5 cr
Tampere University
- Description
- Completion options
Teaching periods
Active in period 3 (1.1.2024–3.3.2024)
Active in period 4 (4.3.2024–31.5.2024)
Active in period 5 (1.6.2024–31.7.2024)
Course code
COMP.CE.320Language of instruction
EnglishAcademic years
2021–2022, 2022–2023, 2023–2024Level of study
Advanced studiesGrading scale
General scale, 0-5Persons responsible
Responsible teacher:
Sakari LahtiResponsible organisation
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences 100 %
Coordinating organisation
Computing Sciences Studies 100 %
Core content
- Fundamentals of high-level synthesis
- Scheduling of IO and memories
- Sequential and combinational hardware
- Memory architecture
- Hierarchical design
- Example designs
Complementary knowledge
- General coding style, bit-accurate data types, pipelining, unrolling
- Unconditional/conditional IO
- Shift registers, multiplexors, shifters, accumulators, adder trees, lookup tables
- Memory organization, caching
- Sharing arrays, sharing control variables, reconvergence, channels, arbitration, feedback
- FIR filter, FFT examples
Learning outcomes
Prerequisites
Compulsory prerequisites
Recommended prerequisites
Further information
Learning material
Equivalences
Studies that include this course
Completion option 1
Passed exam and exercises.
Completion of all options is required.
Participation in teaching
09.01.2024 – 31.05.2024
Active in period 3 (1.1.2024–3.3.2024)
Active in period 4 (4.3.2024–31.5.2024)
Exam
29.04.2024 – 09.06.2024
Active in period 4 (4.3.2024–31.5.2024)
Active in period 5 (1.6.2024–31.7.2024)