E3 231 (JAN) 2:1 Digital Systems Design with FPGAs

Introduction to Digital design; Hierarchical design, controller (FSM), case study, FSM issues, timing issues, pipelining, resource sharing, metastability, synchronization, MTBF Analysis, setup/hold time of various types of flip-flops, synchronization between multiple clock domains, reset recovery, proper resets. VHDL: different models, simulation cycles, process, concurrent and sequential statements, loops, delay models, library, packages, functions, procedures, coding for synthesis, test bench. FPGA: logic block and routing architecture, design methodology, special resources, Xilinx 7 Series FPGA architecture, programming FPGA, constraints, STA, timing closure, case study.

E3 245 (AUG) 2:1 Processor System Design

IIntroduction: Performance and Benchmarking, Basic Processor Architecture, Instruction Set Design, Datapath and Controller, Timing, Pipelining. CISC Processor Design: Architecture, Design. RISC Processor Design: single cycle implementation, multi cycle implementation, pipelined implementation, exception and hazards handling, RISC-V. Memory Hierarchy: Cache, Paging, TLB. Bus: Bus Topologies, AHB, APB, AXI Bus Protocols, Bus Interface.

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Publications

1. Ajay S, Praveen V S and Kuruvilla Varghese, “An FPGA based Accelerator of the Bi-directional Wavefront Algorithm for Pairwise Sequence Alignment”,19th IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS 2023), Hyderabad, 19-22 November 2023.

2. Sadhu Sai Ram and Kuruvilla Varghese, “Efficient Hardware Design of Parameterized Posit Multiplier and Posit Adder”,19th IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS 2023), Hyderabad, 19-22 November 2023.

3. Bhanu Prasad A and Kuruvilla Varghese, “High Throughput Hardware Acceleration for Image Generation using HLS”,19th IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS 2023), Hyderabad, 19-22 November 2023.

4. Madhu Ennampelli and Kuruvilla Varghese, “Resource Efficient TCAM Implementation using SRAM”, IEEE EDS Mini-Colloquium and 3rd International Conference on Micro/Nanoelectronics Devices, Circuits, and Systems (MNDCS-2023), NIT Silchar, Assam, India. 29-31 Jan 2023. (Honorable Mention Award)

   https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-4495-8_15

5. Sajin S, Shubham Sunil Garag, Anuj Phegade, Deepshikha Gusain, and Kuruvilla Varghese “Design of a Multi-Core Compatible Linux Bootable 64-bit Out-of-Order RISC-V Processor Core”, 2023 36th International Conference on VLSI Design and 2023 22nd International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID), 2023, Hyderabad, India, 8-12 Jan 2023.

   https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10089948

6. Ramakant Joshi, Kuruvilla Varghese, “High-Level Synthesis of Geant4 Particle Transport Application for FPGA” 25th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), 2022, pp. 75-83, DOI: 10.1109/DSD57027.2022.00020
   https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9996703

7. V. Naveen Chander, Kuruvilla Varghese, “A Soft RISC-V Vector Processor for Edge-AI”, 2022 35th International Conference on VLSI Design and 2022 21st International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID), 2022, pp. 263-268, DOI: 10.1109/VLSID2022.2022.00058
   https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9885953

8. Dola Ram, Suraj Panwar, Kuruvilla Varghese, ” Hardware Accelerator for Capsule Network based Reinforcement Learning”, 2022 35th International Conference on VLSI Design and 2022 21st International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID), 2022, pp. 162-167, DOI: 10.1109/VLSID2022.2022.00041 (Nripendra Nath Biswas Best Student Paper Award)
   https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9885863

9. A. Antony, Devi. A, and K. Varghese, “High Throughput Hardware for Hoeffding Tree Algorithm with Adaptive Naive Bayes Predictor,” 2021 6th International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT), 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/I2CT51068.2021.9418100.
   https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9418100
10. Gokulan T, Akshay Muraleedharan, and Kuruvilla Varghese, “Design of a 32-bit, dual pipeline superscalar RISC-V processor on FPGA” Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) 2020, Virtual Event, 26-28 August 2020, pp. 340-343, DOI: 10.1109/DSD51259.2020.00062
11. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9217851
12. A. Birari, P. Birla, K. Varghese and A. Bharadwaj, “A RISC-V ISA Compatible Processor IP,” 2020 24th International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT), Bhubaneswar, India, 2020, pp. 1-6, DOI: 10.1109/VDAT50263.2020.9190558

    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9190558

13. Nimish Shah, Paragkumar Chaudhari, and Kuruvilla Varghese, “Runtime Programmable and Memory Bandwidth Optimized FPGA-Based Coprocessor for Deep Convolutional Neural Network”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 29, Issue 12, pp. 5922-5934, December 2018, DOI: 10.1109/TNNLS.2018.2815085

    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8333773/

14. Sajna Remi Clere, Sachin Sethumadhavan, Kuruvilla Varghese, “FPGA Based Reconfigurable Coprocessor for Deep Convolutional Neural Network Training”, 2018 21st Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), Prague, Czech Republic, August 2018, pp. 381-388, DOI: 10.1109/DSD.2018.00072

    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8491843/

15. Suseela Budi, Pradeep Gupta, Kuruvilla Varghese, Amrutur Bharadwaj, “A RISC-V ISA Compatible Processor IP for SoC”, 2018 International Symposium on Devices, Circuits and Systems (ISDCS), Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, March 29-31 2018, pp. 1-5, Kolkata, India. DOI: 10.1109/ISDCS.2018.8379629

    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8379629/

16. A. Dey, S. Jose, K. Varghese and S. G. Srinivasa, “A High-throughput Clock-less Architecture for Soft-Output Viterbi Detection”, 60th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Boston, USA, Aug. 2017, pp. 779-782, DOI: 10.1109/MWSCAS.2017.8053039

    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8053039/

17. Kavya Sharat, Sumeet Bandishte, Kuruvilla Varghese, Amrutur Bharadwaj, “A Custom Designed RISC-V ISA Compatible Processor for SoC”, 21st International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT-2017), 29 June – 2 July 2017, IIT Roorkee, India, 29 June – 2 July 2017, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 711. Springer, Singapore, pp. 570-577, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7470-7_55

    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-7470-7_55

18. Pradeep Gupta, Suseela Budi, Kuruvilla Varghese, and Amrutur Bhardwaj, “A RISC-V Compatible Processor Ip for SoC”, RISC-V International Conference, April 2017, IIT Madras, Chennai.

    http://rise.cse.iitm.ac.in/ric2017/index.html

19. Siddhartha B. Rai, Srinidhi M.S., Kuruvilla Varghese, and Srividhya R “Flow Control for Onboard Solid State Recorder” 4th International Conference on Electronics and Communication Systems, 24-25 Feb 2017, Coimbatore, India, pp. 65-69

    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8067838/

20. Saugata Datta, Kuruvilla Varghese, and Shayan Srinivasa, “A High Throughput Non-uniformly Quantized Binary SOVA Detector on FPGA”, 29th International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID 2016), January 4-8, Kolkata, pp. 439-444.

    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7434993

21. Anant Devi, Maulik Gandhi, Kuruvilla Varghese, and Dipanjan Gope, “Accelerating method of moments based package-board 3D parasitic extraction using FPGA” Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Volume 58, Issue 4, pp. 776-783, April 2016

    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mop.29660/abstract

22. Sriram Venkateshan, Alap Patel, and Kuruvilla Varghese, “Hybrid Working Set Algorithm for SVM Learning With a Kernel Coprocessor on FPGA”, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 23, No. 10, pp. 2221-2232, Oct. 2015

    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6933936

23. Anant Devi, Maulik Gandhi, Kuruvilla Varghese, and Dipanjan Gope, “Hardware Accelerator for 3D Method of Moments based Parasitic Extraction”, The 2013 IEEE Electrical Design of Advanced Packaging & Systems (EDAPS) symposium, December 2013, Nara, Japan. pp. 100-103

    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6724399

24. Karthikeyan P, Srijith Haridas, and Kuruvilla Varghese, “Transparent FPGA based Device for SQL DDoS Mitigation” International  Conference on Field-Programmable Technology 2013 (ICFTP 2013), December 2013, Kyoto, Japan. pp. 82-89

    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6718334

25. Jimit Shah, K.S. Raghunandan, and Kuruvilla Varghese, “HD Resolution Intra Prediction Architecture for H.264 Decoder” 25th IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design VLSID 2012, January 2012, Hyderabad, India. pp.107 – 112

    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6167737

26. Tejasvi Anand, Yagnesh Waghela, and Kuruvilla Varghese “A Scalable Network Port Scan Detection System on FPGA” IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT’11). December 2011, New Delhi, India. pp. 1-6

    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6132712

27. Gandhi Arpit, Raghavendra Adiga and Kuruvilla Varghese, “Space Efficient Diagonal Linear Space Sequence Alignment” 10th IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE 2010) 3 June 2010, Philadelphia, pp. 244-249

    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5521681

28. Vrishali Vijay Nimbalkar, and Kuruvilla Varghese, ” In-Channel Flow Control Scheme for Network-on-Chip” 16th Euromicro Conference on Digital Systems Design (DSD 2010), September 2010, France, pp. 459-466

    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5615566

29. Jimit Shah, Komanduri S. Raghunandan and Kuruvilla Varghese “Area Optimized H.264 Intra Prediction Architecture for 1080p HD Resolution”, 21st IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP 2010), July 2010, France, pp: 120-125

    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5540989&tag=1

30. Vikas.G, Joy Kuri, and Kuruvilla Varghese, “Power Optimal Network-on-Chip Interconnect Design”, 22nd IEEE International SOC Conference, September, 2009, Northern Ireland, UK, pp. 147-150

    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5398071

31. Divyasree J, Rajashekar H, and Kuruvilla Varghese, “Dynamically Reconfigurable Regular Expression Matching Architecture” 20th IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors 2008 (ASAP 2008), July 2008, Leuven, Belgium, pp. 120-125

    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4580165

32. Gajanan Jedhe, Arun Ramamoorthy and Kuruvilla Varghese, “A Scalable High Throughput Firewall in FPGA”, The 16th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2008 (FCCM’08), April 2008, California, USA, pp. 43-52

    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4724888