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AGENDA

Week Date Lecture Reference Assignment
1 9/10 Class Introduction [slides] Verilog HDL 2005 Standard [doc]  
2 9/17 Advanced HDL basics & Timing FSM Templates:1, 2  
3 9/24 Latest AI Chip Architectures    
4 10/1 Happy holiday😃    
5 10/8 Happy holiday😃    
6 10/15 TPU vs GPU (Paper1, Paper2, Code1)    
7 10/22 Neuromorphic Computer (Paper1, Paper2, Paper3)    
8 10/29 CNN ASICs (Paper1, Paper2, Code1)    
9 11/5 RISC-V for AI (Paper1, Paper2, Code1) assignment due 23:59:00, 12/8/2024  
10 11/12 Dataflow (Paper1, Paper2, Historical View)    
11 11/19 Wafer-scale Architectures (Paper1, Paper2 Cerebras Chip 123)    
12 11/26 Processing-In-Memory (Paper1, Paper2, Code1)    
13 12/3 LLM Accelerator (Paper1, Paper2, Code1)    
14 12/10 Optical Communications & Computing (Paper1, Paper2)    
15 12/17 Quantum AI Computing (Basics, Paper1, Paper2)    
16 12/24 Final Presentation    
19 Jan 13 11:59:00,2025 (tentative) Final Project Submission [Final Exam Week] No Lecture    

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