Description: Lecture, one hour; laboratory, four hours; outside study, seven hours. Enforced requisites: courses M16 (or Computer Science M51A), 115A. Recommended: course 115B. Course 183DA is enforced requisite to 183DB. Limited to senior Electrical Engineering majors. Design of specialized hardware functions in system-on-chip application processor context with integration of diverse processing technologies such as general-purpose processors, graphics processors, and energy-efficient domain-specific accelerators. Design of logic gates, their size and voltage optimization for energy-delay trade-offs, operation of clocked-storage elements and their timing parameters, timing analysis of digital data-path logic, architecture parallelism and time multiplexing, clock and power. Introduction to advanced project-related topics. Open-ended projects vary annually. Student teams create hardware accelerator engines for various applications. In Progress grading (credit to be given only on completion of course 183DB).

Units: 4.0