Description: This course provides students with the opportunity to study and evaluate modern computer architecture design. The course covers the fundamentals of computer design, performance, cost, instruction set design, processor implementation, control unit design, pipelining, memory hierarchy, and computer arithmetic.
Term offered: Spring 2026.
Description: This graduate-level course explores important aspects of modern computer system design with emphasis on emerging design technologies. We cover principles, techniques, and examples related to the hardware efficient design of computer systems. Students learn in this class core abstractions and techniques that generally apply to the hardware design of computer systems. We discuss emerging system design technologies, from brain-inspired hyperdimensional computers to stochastic processors, stochastic computing systems, and unary computers.
Term offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2025.
Description: This laboratory course introduces key methods and tools for modern digital hardware design. Students learn core abstractions for FPGA and ASIC development through hands-on experience with Verilog modeling, HDL simulation, logic synthesis, circuit-level analysis, and hardware implementation. Using industry-standard tools, students explore the end-to-end design flow—from RTL coding and verification to technology-mapped ASIC synthesis and FPGA deployment. The course equips students with practical skills essential for building and analyzing digital systems across contemporary computing platforms.
Term offered: Fall 2025.
Description: In this course, we invite active researchers from academia, engineers and managers from industry, and successful university graduates to share their knowledge, experiences, and recent works with students.
Term offered: Fall 2025.
Description: This is a broad VLSI design course for students without another VLSI course background. We start from technology and device related ideas, move within circuit design concepts, and later go through system building issues. Two simultaneous flows are followed in the class and parallel computer assignments. In classes, CMOS process and technology, implementation alternatives, CMOS logic families, combinational and sequential designs, important arithmetic and logic blocks, timing and signal integrity, and system integration issues are discussed. In computer assignments, we go over Verilog system modeling, synthesis of digital circuits, auto place and route procedures, layout design, and precise SPICE characterization of digital circuits.
Term offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018.
Description: This course explores important aspects of computer system design, implementation, and evaluation. We cover principles, techniques, and examples related to the construction of computer systems. Students learn in this class core abstractions and techniques that generally apply to the hardware design of computer systems ranging from embedded/personal devices to large-scale distributed, networked computers.
Term offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019.
Description: In this course, we invite active researchers from academia, engineers and managers from industry, and successful university graduates to share their knowledge, experiences, and recent works with students. Most lectures are recorded and publicly made available on the CMIX Seminar Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@cmixseminars-ullafayette/
Term offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021.