Design Automation and Computing Systems

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Overview

• Term: 2025 Fall
• Instructor: Youwei Zhuo
• Teaching Assistants: Names (emails)
• Meeting Times/Location: 13:00-16:00, Wednesday / Room 203

Learning Outcomes

• Electronic Design Automation
• Digital Logic Synthesis
• Physical Design Automation
• Timing Analysis and Optimization
• Computing Systems
• Compute Architecture
• Memory Systems
• Parralel Programming

Prerequisites

• digital logic
• algorithms

Textbooks

• Electronic Design Automation for IC Implementation, Circuit Design, and Process Technology by Luciano Lavagno et.al.
• Computer Architecture: A quantitative approach by David Patterson et.al.
• The Art of Multiprocessor Programming

Grading

• Homework: 20%
• Project: 30%
• Exam(s): 30%
• Participation: 20%

Communication

• Primary contact: email or forum link
• Office hours: time / location / virtual link