Here you will find the lectures offered by our working group in the summer semester.

A list of vacant student works can be found here.

Contents

• Low Power Design
• Arithmetic Building Blocks
• Interconnect Issues
• Timing Issues
• Throughput Considerations
• Network-on-Chip (NoC)
• Memory Architectures
• 3D Integration of ICs

Contents

This course teaches design, integration, and validation concepts for hardware-accelerated hybrid systems (in particular with FPGAs). It focuses on the higher abstraction levels starting from the application itself, moving to over algorithm and execution platform selections to the final implementation.

Covered topics in this course:

• Application-level design space exploration and selection of appropriate implementation styles
• High-level synthesis (HLS)
• Commercial hybrid devices (Xilinx and Intel FPGAs and SoCs)
• Virtual platforms (VPs) and SystemC / TLM basics
• Validation with unit tests and integration tests
• Development styles: Classic, Test-Driven Design (TDD), and agile hardware design
• Methods and tools for project tracking and collaboration

Contents

1) Instructed Lab Part (1 CP):

• • Linux systems: basics, shell, packages, network configuration
  • IP Networks (Layer 1 to 4)
    • Basics: media, ARP, DHCP, ICMP, DNS, UDP, IPv4 and IPv6, TCP
    • VLANs
    • Switching and routing, routing protocols
    • Basic security aspects (segmentation, firewalls, ACLs)
  • Cisco: Switch setup, configuration, and management, IOS CLI
  • Routing with Linux and Cisco switches

2) Autonomous Lab Project (3 CPs):

• • You carry out a project with the effort of 90 h (3 CPs). Topic and modalities are set individually.

Contents

In this lab, the participants study the RISCV instruction set using a RV32I processor. Besides that, they learn how to work with its toolchain. The concepts of modern processor architectures in a given hardware are analyzed to accelerate a post-quantum safe encryption algorithm. Therefore, instruction set extensions and custom instructions as well as software optimizations have to be implemented by the participants. Furthermore, the use of common development tools for software design and synthesis is conveyed.

Contents

• Introduction into the design flow of integrated circuits
• technology basics
• implementation styles
• circuit technology basics
• design methodology

Contents

• Einführung in den Entwurfszyklus integrierter Schaltungen
• technologische Grundlagen
• Implementierungsstile
• schaltungstechnische Grundlagen
• Entwurfsmethodiken

Contents

• undamentals of communication networks
  • Abstraction layers
  • Topologies
  • Access schemes
  • Modulation and coding schemes
• IP Networks (Layer 1 to 4)
  • Basics: media, ARP, DHCP, ICMP, DNS, UDP, IPv4 and IPv6, TCP
  • VLANs
  • Switching and routing, routing protocols
  • Basic security aspects (segmentation, firewalls, ACLs)
• Event-driven programming models
• Bus systems and protocols in buildings and media technology
  • KNX, 1-Wire, Modbus
  • RS-232, RS-422, RS-485
  • MIDI, DMX, DALI
• Data brokers for linking different systems: purpose, implementations, and configuration
• Linux systems: basics, shell, packages

Contents

Talks and discussions related to microelectronics

• #SWS: 2 h
• #ECTS Credits: 3
• Languages: German / English
• Registration mandatory: yes