ECE 699 - Digital Signal Processing Hardware Implementations
Spring 2009

Class Schedule (subject to modification)

Date Lecture HW Due Presentation
Wed, Jan 21
 
Lecture 1 - Introduction, Fixed-Point Arithmetic (1)
 
   
Wed, Jan 28
 
Lecture 2 - Fixed-Point Arithmetic (2), FIR Filters and Pipelining (1)
 
HW1 Due
(Fri, Jan 30)
 
Wed, Feb 4
 
Lecture 3 - FIR Filters and Pipelining (2)
 

 
 
Wed, Feb 11
 
Lecture 4 - DSP-Specific Hardware in FPGAs
 
 
 
 
Wed, Feb 18
 
Lecture 5 - IIR Filters, Iteration Bound
 
HW2 Due
(Wed, Feb 18)
 
Wed, Feb 25
 
(Lecture 5 - IIR Filters, Iteration Bound, continued)
 

 
 
Wed, Mar 4
 
Lecture 6 - Fast Fourier Transforms
 
HW3 Due
(Fri, Mar 6)
 
Wed, Mar 11
 
NO CLASS - SPRING BREAK
 

 
 
Wed, Mar 18
 
Lecture 7 - Midterm Review
 
HW4 Due
(Wed, Mar 18)
 
Wed, Mar 25
 
MIDTERM EXAM
 

 
Part 1 Due
(Wed, Mar 25)
Wed, Apr 1
 
Lecture 8 - CORDIC, Bit-Level DSP Arithmetic
 

 
 
Wed, Apr 8
 
Lecture 9 - Retiming Transformations
 

 
Part 2 Due
(Fri, Apr 10)
Wed, Apr 15
 
Lecture 10 - Unfolding and Folding Transformations
 

 
 
Wed, Apr 22
 
Lecture 11 - Low-Power Design, Final Review
 
HW5 Due
(Wed, Apr 22)
 
Wed, Apr 29
 
Lecture 12 - Student Presentations
 

 
Part 3 Due
(Wed, Apr 29)
Wed, May 6
 
FINAL EXAM