FP8-17	Course Description	Schedule	Resources

FP8-17: Software Programmable Signal Processing Platform Analysis

Breaking News

April 19, 2005: The fifth exercise set was extended with (just one) hint on how you can go about optimizing your project code (ex 5.4).
April 18, 2005: The textbook is now available from the university bookstore. Go and grab it!
April 12,2005: The second set of exercises has been slightly updated, to include more hints in the last (most crucial exercise 2.4).
April 6, 2005: The book (Appel) should be available from the bookstore around Apr 15. Await more info here.
April 6, 2005: Ole Wolf has agreed to hold the third mini module on DSP architecture. Thank you, Ole!
March 9, 2005: This preliminary website for the course has been established!

Time and Place

There will be approximately seven 90-minute lectures and equally many exercise sessions, held irregularly between April 12 and May 8 2005. See schedule for details.

Teachers

Lecturers	Office	Contact
Andrzej Wąsowski, external lecturer	office B1-205 (hardly used)

Course Materials

It is possible to follow the course by just attending the lectures and solving exercises. However your results will be much more firm if you supplement yourself with a text book. We shall mostly refer to:

Andrew W. Appel. Modern Compiler Implementation in C. Cambridge University Press (1999, paperback 2004).

Slides, notes, and exercise tasks are available from the episode descriptions, reachable via the schedule.

Teaching Language

All course materials are in English and the lectures will be given in English.

Programming Language

We will be mostly concerned with compiling computation intensive pointerless C programs with arrays. The algorithms will be presented in pseudocode (exercises may occasionally require some C programming skills).