Skip to main content
You are browsing the curriculum of a past academic year (2020–2021).
Do you want to change to the ongoing academic year?
Course unit, curriculum year 2020–2021
COMP.CE.320

High-level Synthesis, 5 cr

Tampere University
Teaching periods
Course code
COMP.CE.320
Language of instruction
English
Academic year
2020–2021
Level of study
Advanced studies
Grading scale
General scale, 0-5
Persons responsible
Responsible teacher:
Sakari Lahti
Responsible organisation
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences 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
Studies that include this course