Peter Milder

The field of digital system design has entered a new and complicated era. Digital designers now have increasingly large amounts of chip area to exploit, but they are strictly limited by the amount of power that can be consumed per transistor (the so-called “power wall”). Modern design practices must carefully balance a variety of system tradeoffs such as power, energy, area, throughput, latency, bandwidth, and reusability/customization of digital systems. This course will study how new design abstractions, languages, and tools can help address these problems from the system designer’s perspective.