COMP4601 Notices

Notices

  • COMP4601 Evaluations

    Posted by Oliver Diessel Tuesday 23 May 2017, 11:28:33 AM, last modified Wednesday 24 May 2017, 11:29:17 AM.

    You will have received an email from me containing the following information and attachments on 23 May at 11:26:

    During today's lecture I will explain the COMP4601 course assessments that will occur next week.

    These include:

    1. Project demos during the usual lab sessions in Week 13 (Mon-Tue, 29-30 May)
    2. Project presentations during the usual lecture slot next week (Tue 30 May), and a
    3. Final Project Report due by midnight next Friday (2 June).


    Attached to this email are assessment guides that were used during 2016 to assess the demos and presentations . This year's assessments will be similar.

    Also attached is an Interview form , which I would like you to complete prior to your exit interview next Friday, 2 June. I would like to meet with every class member for 10 minutes on Friday 2 June to discuss your experiences on the course. The completed interview form will enable this process, so please email me a PDF copy of your completed form by 9:00am on 2 June.

    To organize a time for your exit interview, please select a time that suits you using the Doodle poll at http://doodle.com/poll/23uwzacvp792gq2a

    Finally, you will already have received an email from the University inviting you to complete a MyExperience survey for each of your courses. Could I please ask you to complete the course & teaching surveys for COMP4601 as soon as possible? The surveys can be accessed at

    URL: https://myexperience.unsw.edu.au/

    Username: zID@ad.unsw.edu.au

    Password: zPass

  • Week 9 Progress Review

    Posted by Oliver Diessel Monday 24 April 2017, 03:39:18 PM.

    As outlined on slide 44 of the Introductory Lecture , a Project Progress (Design) Review will be conducted during Week 9. This entails a project demo to Oliver during the Monday or Tuesday lab session, and the submission of a brief report by midnight on Friday. You will be marked as a team; together, these assessable components contribute 10% to your total course mark.

    The project demo will involve the group demonstrating their progress towards getting the application running on the Zedboard with suitable functions accelerated in programmable logic. You are not expected to have the final implementation working at this stage. This provides an opportunity to discuss your progress to date, as well as your plans for completing the project. It may help to have some clear diagrams prepared that illustrate your system architecture or solution approach.

    The Progress Report is likely to be about 5 pages in length, to outline the goals of the project, to present and discuss the profiling results, to present your system architecture with block diagrams of your proposed design, to report on your progress to date, to highlight what work still needs to be done, to provide a credible plan for completing the work, and to report on any difficulties you have had to date, how you have overcome them, and/or how you have modified your objectives to account for the problems you have encountered. Your report should explain the PS<->PL communication strategy you are using, detail the hardware design of your accelerator, and describe how you plan to measure the performance of the accelerated system relative to that of the unaccelerated, software-only implementation. Please send Oliver a PDF of your report by midnight, Friday 5 May.

  • Lab reports marked

    Posted by Oliver Diessel Wednesday 19 April 2017, 04:42:38 PM, last modified Wednesday 19 April 2017, 04:43:34 PM.

    Lab reports are marked and are loaded into SMS along with your project plan scores.

    To retrieve these, enter comp4601 classrun -sturec at the UNIX prompt of your CSE home account.

    Lab reports will be returned next week.

  • Seminar slides

    Posted by Oliver Diessel Tuesday 11 April 2017, 05:40:39 PM, last modified Wednesday 12 April 2017, 10:28:39 AM.

    Hello everyone,

    Would you please send me your seminar slides when they are finished so that I can post the slides on the course website?

    I have posted those I have received to the Seminar List - remember to flush your browser's cache and to refresh each page to see the latest content...

    Thanks,

    Oliver

  • Week 5 Project Presentations

    Posted by Oliver Diessel Monday 27 March 2017, 01:46:30 PM.

    This week project groups will give a brief (10-15 minute) presentation on the objectives of their project, the approach they are taking to implement an accelerated solution, the expected outcomes, and work towards milestones. I would like all team members to participate in their group's presentation and expect each team will have between 3 and 5 slides to present.

    With 10 groups presenting during our usual 3 hour lecture slot, rapid turnaround between presenting groups will be critical. I therefore think it would be best if all groups email me their slides by 2:15pm tomorrow so that I can compile them into a continuous presentation.

    Thanks for your help with this!

  • AXI Simulation

    Posted by Oliver Diessel Tuesday 14 March 2017, 02:52:39 PM.

    Alex has the following message:

    While working on the Custom IP lab, you may find the process of repackaging, upgrading, bitstream generation and debug-run a little tedious. Simulation is a fast way to verify your design before proceeding through this time consuming process. The link http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs4601/17s1/labs/comp4601_axi_simulation.zip provides a test bench template and a guide for testing your custom IP. I hope these resources will save you time and effort, but please be warned that simulation does not always reflect the true operation on real hardware.

  • Week 2 notices

    Posted by Oliver Diessel Monday 06 March 2017, 12:14:31 PM, last modified Tuesday 07 March 2017, 05:48:06 PM.

    • I have updated the Seminar List with the presenter and date of your seminar. Please check that it is correct. Remember to refresh your browser contents in order to see the latest version.
    • There are 5 or so of you who still need to nominate a Seminar paper. Please complete the Doodle poll at https://beta.doodle.com/poll/titeb87kqbw2misd
    • Just under half the class have yet to nominate a Project topic. The Project marks dominate your result for COMP4601 and will require significant time investment. Please discuss your ideas with me and get organized this week!
    • Seminar papers are now all allocated. Please check the Seminar List and let me know of any errors.
    • Project teams are also all formed with good progress on deciding direction. Refer to Project List.

  • Echo recordings

    Posted by Oliver Diessel Wednesday 01 March 2017, 01:11:53 PM.

    Echo360 recordings for COMP4601 are available via the course entry within Moodle

    or

    by directly accessing the recordings at https://lectures.unsw.edu.au/ess/portal/section/5174_01020

  • Week 1 notices

    Posted by Oliver Diessel Tuesday 28 February 2017, 05:59:58 PM, last modified Tuesday 28 February 2017, 09:39:23 PM.

    1. The lecture has been posted on the web.
    2. Lab kits have been handed out to those who came along after the lecture today. When teams have been formed, I may ask to reallocate a board or two to even up their distribution - there should be enough for 1 board between every pair and two between every project team comprising three people. I currently have 5 kits on hand.
    3. Alex will be attending the labs commencing next week.
    4. Please organise yourselves into project teams and sort out which project(s) you would like to do. Email me your decisions when you have reached agreement.
    5. I have prepared a Doodle poll for you to select your preferred seminar paper. The poll is at https://beta.doodle.com/poll/titeb87kqbw2misd
    6. Labs can be completed with partners, but individual reports explaining your own thoughts and identifying your partners need to be submitted.
    7. I will regularly update the Project list to indicate which problems have been selected by groups. Please clear your browser's cache and reload the page to see updates. Note that some projects can support multiple groups as long as each group chooses to work on unique variations of the problem.

  • Welcome to 4601

    Posted by Oliver Diessel Thursday 09 February 2017, 02:50:11 PM, last modified Friday 24 February 2017, 02:30:16 PM.

    You've landed at the staging post for COMP4601. Welcome!

    Pages are being constructed as the details of the 2017 course syllabus are developed.

    Please return before session starts to find out what's happening.

    Until then, bye for now.

    Update 1 [20 Feb]: Draft Course Outline posted

    Update 2 [24 Feb]: Course Outline finalized (barring last minute changes); Project & Seminar lists compiled

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