• Description: In this seminar, we will review current conference and journal papers related to the design of reconfigurable hardware systems. In particular, we will choose papers that focus on topics related to reconfiguration techniques for systems with Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), techniques of migrating algorithms from software to hardware, and study applications for FPGAs in computer networks.

• Instructor:Prof. John W. Lockwood
  • (lockwood@arl.wustl.edu)
    

• Credits:
  • 1 unit
  • Pass/Fail

• Class Format
  • A interactive seminar
  • Each week, everyone in the class reads an assigned paper, and submits a one-page page summary of the paper.
    • The summaries should represent your original throughts on the paper
    • Everyone in the class is expected to participate in the discussion of the paper.
    • Summaries must be submitted to the instructor no later than 10pm on the evening before the review.
    • The review will be graded pass/fail by the instructor.
  • Each week, a presentor will be chosen to prepare slides and present the paper in a 25 minute format.
    • The presentation should be complete, meaning that it covers the major concepts of the papers.
    • Graphics should be used to describe diagrams or results.
    • Prove that you understand the paper by presenting the paper in your own words
    • Explore the papers cited by the paper to provide context for the paper.
    • PowerPoint (.ppt) files for the 1st seminar are available on-line from the CS681x websites that can serve as a template in the required format.
    • The presentor should upload a draft of the presentation on the Friday before the date that he or she will review the material.
    • Members in the class will evaulate effectiveness of the the presentor using a gradesheet
  • Each week, a Heckler will will be chosen to challenge the ideas presented in the paper.
    • The heckler should challenge all questionable statements or ideas discussed in the paper
    • It is the responsiblity of the presentor to respond to each point with a counter arguement.
  • A passing grade for the course will only be awarded if:
    • As a presentor, you receive high marks by the class
    • As a heckler, you raise valid points.
    • You participate in class discussions
    • Your summaries are submitted on-time
  • Everyone in the FPX group is expected to be registered to take this course.
  • The Template Presentation should be downloaded and used to format the talk.
  • Presentations, Summaries, and heckler reports should be submitted to: http://www.gradebot.com/cse6814/submit/upload.cgi

• Time:
  • Wednesdays: 10am-11am

• Place:
  • Jolley 509c (conference room in main CS office)

• Readings
  • Updates and assignments will be made on a week-by-week basis. Please check the website,
    http://www.arl.wustl.edu/~lockwood/class/cs6814/index.html
    on a regular basis for the current assignments for reading, presenting, and heckling.
  • The papers listed below were chosen for use in this seminar course.
    • You should not attempt to submit papers listed in this for credit in other seminar courses.

• On-line References
  • Select Readings from networking conferences and journals
  • Articles Available from: The NECI Scientific Literature Digital Library (ResearchIndex)
  • Russell Tessier's 697c collection

• Related Links
  • More reading available from:
    • Publications on the Field programmable Port Extender (FPX)
    • CS6813: Research Seminar on Reconfigurable Hardware: Spring 2003
    • CS6812: Research Seminar on Reconfigurable Hardware: Fall 2002
    • CS6811: Research Seminar on Reconfigurable Hardware: Spring 2002
  • Basic Tutorial on Architecture of FPGAs and CPLDs

  
  

Reading List

1. Wed Sep 17:Sumeet Singh, Florin Baboescu, George Varghese, Jia Wang, Packet Classification Using Multidimensional Cutting, SIGCOMM 2003, Karlsruhe, Germany, August 25-29.
   • Review: Sarang
   • Heckler: Dave S.

2. Tue Sep 23: Ruoming Pang, Vern Paxson, A High-level Programming Environment for Packet Trace Anonymization and Transformation, SIGCOMM 2003, Karlsruhe, Germany, August 25-29.
   • Review: James
   • Heckler: Bharath

3. Fri Oct 10: David Moore, Colleen Shannon, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage, Internet Worms: Requirements for Containing Self-Propagating Code, Infocom 2003.
   • Review: Bharath
   • Heckler: Todd

4. Wed Oct 15: David Moore, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Colleen Shannon, Stuart Staniford and Nicholas Weaver, Inside the Slammer Worm, IEEE Security and Privacy, 1(4):33-39, July 2003.
   • Review: Jing Lu
   • Heckler: James

5. Wed Oct 22: Gareth Lee and George Milne, Building Run-Time Reconfigurable Systems From Tiles FPL'03, Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 2003, pp. 252-261
   • Review: Phillip
   • Heckler: Chris Zuver

6. Wed Oct 29: Antonio Carzaniga, Alexander L. Wolf, Forwarding in Content-Based Networks, SIGCOMM '03, Karlsruhe, Germany, August 25-29.
   • Review: Mike Attig
   • Heckler: Sarang

7. Wed Nov 12:Micah Beck, Terry Moore, James Plank, An End-to-End Approach to Global Scalable Programmable Networking, FDNA'03, Karlsruhe, Germany, August, 2003.
   • Review: Qian wan
   • Heckler: Dave Lim

8. Fri Nov 21: Brandon Blodget, Philip James-Roxby, Eric Keller, Scott McMillan, Prasanna Sundararajan (Xilinx), A self-reconfiguring platform, FPL 03, pp. 565-574.
   • Review: Chris Neely
   • Heckler: Haoyu