Feedback and marks are now available.
These are scheduled to be held during the lab sessions in Week 10. Please note that we may exceed the two hour schedule if all talks utilise their full presentation time allocation. To this end, please prepare your presentations to take from 15-20 minutes maximum. The reports and demo videos provide further opportunities to cover issues you wish to report on.
Presentation slides, project reports and demos are to be attached to your team's wiki pages.
Please let me know whether your team would prefer to present on Wednesday or Thursday. The first 6 teams to nominate for a particular day will secure their preference.
Feedback and marks are now available.
I hope you have all had a bit of a rest last week.
This week marks the start of our seminars, which will be held during the scheduled lecture time from 11am - 2pm on Wednesdays.
All students are expected to provide meaningful assessments of seminar presentations using the seminar evaluation form . These are to be submitted by midnight on the day of the presentation using the link created for each seminar topic. Just one form is to be submitted per topic. Your seminar presentations and evaluations form part of your assessment in the course. Please refer to the seminar instructions for a more detailed explanation.
Please reload seminar pages to obtain up-to-date listings of presenters, their topic summaries and their presentation slides.
Forgive me if you have already created a project plan description on the wiki...I have told the presenters at today's project presentations to just upload their presentation slides to the wiki - not to worry about writing up a separate plan - this assumes that your slides cover the points of interest mentioned in the project plan deliverables section of the web site.
Access your feedback and marks in the usual manner.
Please direct queries in the first instance to Junning, who has worked hard to get the marking done quickly.
Tony has finished marking the handin on Week 2's labs that were submitted last Monday.
Your mark and feedback are best retrieved by clicking on the bar graph Grades icon in WebCMS3 course menu .
Hi all,
Apologies once again for the unforeseen change in this week's schedule:
Thanks
Due to a conflict in my schedule, I would like to swap next week's lecture and Wednesday lab times.
The Week 4 lecture will be held from 3pm - 5pm on Wednesday 22 June while the usual online lab session will be held from 11am - 1pm that day. Recordings of both sessions will be made.
My apologies for the late announcement and scheduling turmoil.
Junning and Tony tell me some of you have had problems completely and correctly installing Vivado HLS 2020.1
Please ensure you use Vivado HLS rather than Vitis HLS to do your labs. One significant difference appears to be that by default Vitis pipelines loops, while Vivado synthesises logic that will execute loops sequentially. To achieve the same effect you would need to add #pragma HLS pipeline off to each loop when using Vitis.
If your installation fails to install the shortcut for Vivado HLS, you can launch the GUI manually by running the batch file
C:\Xilinx\Vivado\2020.1\bin\vivado_hls.bat
To be able to use the Vivado HLS command line, add C:\Xilinx\Vivado\2020.1\bin to the system environment variable, as explained in part C of the COMP4601 Vivado installation guide .
A poll for you to select the seminar topic you are interested in presenting has been created in Moodle .
The poll will open at 5:00 pm Sydney time today and close at 9:00 am on Monday 20 June.
Please email me before Tuesday 14 June with the names of your team members as well as which, if any, are located remotely.
If you have not managed to find a team you can work with by Tuesday 14 June, please email me and indicate your location so that project team formation can be finalised next week.
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Please ensure you install version 2020.1 of Vivado Design Suite - HLx Edition - we will use Vivado HLS (part of the HLx toolset) in our lab work. Other versions may or may not work and certainly present a different user interface to that discussed in the lab guides we provide.
Hello again
The COMP4601 course website is ready for you to peruse.
I have created a COMP4601 Team and added you as a member here: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19:ytnsFv0PpX...
I look forward to meeting you all on Wednesday at 11am.
See you then!
PS. If you're stuck for stuff to do, read Ch 1 of the text Parallel Programming for FPGAs , and if you're still stuck, follow the instructions for setting up your lab environment .
Welcome to a new term and to COMP4601 Design Project B!
Until we meet, I will be working to flesh out the course website and to finalise the offering for 22T2. Feedback from the 21T2 offering as well as the ongoing challenges of separation together with a significant growth in the enrolment have led to some changes in my thinking about how to run the course... Please stay tuned for further announcements and I hope to have it all ship shape for you by the time we meet on Teams at 11am on Wednesday 1 June .
If you have some spare time, and wish to get started, I encourage you to read Chapter 1 of Paralel Programming for FPGAs and to set up your design environment by following the Week 1 lab instructions.
Please note that it may take another week or so for the website to be completely ready for this year's offering of 4601. I'll let you know when noteworthy updates have been completed.
See you soon.
Oliver