The class provides a first introduction to the design of digital circuits and computer architecture. It covers technical foundations of how a computing platform is designed from the bottom up. It introduces various execution paradigms, hardware description languages, and principles in digital design and computer architecture.

The class provides a first introduction to the design of digital circuits and computer architecture. It covers technical foundations of how a computing platform is designed from the bottom up. It introduces various execution paradigms, hardware description languages, and principles in digital design and computer architecture.

This course will expose participants to the full design cycle and cost-performance relationships for integrated circuits (ICs) used in machine learning and cryptographic applications.

In this edition of the Integrated Systems Seminar, members of the Digital Circuits and Systems group give technical presentations on their work in an environment that simulates a technical conference andinteract with the audience. In addition, short tutorial lectures will be given to support students for their dissemination activities.

Systems-on-chip architecture and related design issues with a focus on machine learning and data analytics applications. It will cover multi-cores, many-cores, vector engines, GP-GPUs, application-specific processors and heterogeneous compute accelerators. Special emphasis given to energy-efficiency issues and hardware-software techniques for power and energy minimization.

This first course in a series that extends over three consecutive terms is concerned with tailoring algorithms and with devising high performance hardware architectures for their implementation as ASIC or with FPGAs. The focus is on front end design using HDLs and automatic synthesis for producing industrial-quality circuits.

This second course in our VLSI series is concerned with how to turn digital circuit netlists into safe, testable and manufacturable mask layout, taking into account various parasitic effects. Starting in 2025, the course will rely on pre-dominantly open-source tools and put more emphasis on hands-on design. All students will be expected to complete their own design (in groups of two).

In this revamped course, we will concentrate on practical aspects of modern integrated circuit testing with an emphasis on hands-on-experience on an IC tester. This will help students to better understand several aspects that have been highlighted in previous VLSI lecture series and allow them to test their own ICs designed during prior semester/bachelor theses.

This fifth course in our VLSI lecture series consolidates the theoretical and practical knowledge from the courses VLSI 1, VLSI 2, and VLSI 3, offering hands-on experience in designing and characterizing a standard-cell library for integration into a standard digital integrated circuit design flow.