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Day 10: Numerical Architectures & PPA

Week 3 · Session 10 of 16

📊 PPA Analysis ⚙️ Constraints

Pre-Class Slide Decks

Work through the slide decks below to prepare for this session. Each deck's focus is summarized so you can see what's ahead at a glance.

Segment 1: Timing Essentials

Timing: the one thing the synthesizer tells you whether your design is fast enough.

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Segment 2: Numerical Architectures

What + and * actually build — the architectures behind the operators.

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Segment 3: Ppa Intro

The three-axis framework every real design is evaluated on.

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Segment 4: Asic Ppa Context

What happens when your Verilog becomes a real chip.

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Lecture Code Examples

Code shown during the pre-class video. Each example is a runnable

subdirectory with its own Makefile (make sim, make stat, make prog).

Discussion

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