| Week |
Date |
Lecture Topics |
Paper Report |
Lab Deadline |
Misc. |
| 1 |
9/4 |
Basics of AI Accelerator[pdf] |
Syllabus[Syllabus] |
|
Build AI Silicon |
| 2 |
9/11 |
Large Language Model[pdf] |
|
|
CFU Playground |
| 3 |
9/18 |
Quantization |
|
Lab 1 |
|
| 4 |
9/25 |
Pruning and Sparsity |
BitMOD, HPCA, 2025[pdf] |
|
|
| 5 |
10/2 |
Systolic Accelerator |
|
Lab 2 |
|
| 6 |
10/9 |
Digital AI Accelerator |
FIGLUT, HPCA, 2025 [pdf] |
|
|
| 7 |
10/16 |
GPGPU Architecture |
|
Lab 3 |
|
8 |
10/23 |
Midterm Exam |
GARDE, ISCA, 2025 [pdf] |
|
|
9 |
10/30 |
GPU Tensor Core |
RTSpMSpM, ISCA, 2025 [pdf] |
|
|
| 10 |
11/6 |
Sparse DNN Accelerators |
|
Lab 4 |
|
| 11 |
11/13 |
Chiplet Accelerator |
vAttention, ASPLOS 2025 [pdf] |
|
|
| 12 |
11/20 |
Analog ML Accelerator |
floatap, MICRO 2024 [pdf] |
|
|
| 13 |
11/27 |
Machine Learning Compiler |
|
Lab 5 |
|
| 14 |
12/4 |
Emerging AI Accelerator |
ATiM, ISCA 2025 [pdf] |
|
|
| 15 |
12/11 |
Final Exam |
|
|
|
| 16 |
12/18 |
Final Project Due |
|
|
Invited talk (AMD) |