System-on-Chip (SoC) Design

ECE382M.20, Unique: 17090
Semester: Fall 2021

Course Outline (Tentative)

Week	Topic	Lecture Notes	Instructor	Assignments
1 Aug 26	Class & Project Overview	Lecture 0
2 Aug 31/Sep 2	Object Recognition & Deep Learning Tutorial	Lecture 1		HW #1     Lab #1
	System-Level Design Methodology	Lecture 2
3 Sep 7/9	The SystemC Language	Lecture 3
	Transaction-Level Modeling (TLM) in SystemC
4 Sep 14/16	SoC Performance Modeling	Lecture 4
	HW/SW Co-Design	Lecture 5
5 Sep 21/23	Task Partitioning	Lecture 6		HW #2     Lab #2
	Task Scheduling	Lecture 7
6 Sep 28/30	HW/SW & Accelerator Interfacing	Lecture 8
7 Oct 5/7	SoC Communication Architectures	Lecture 9
8 Oct 12/14	C-to-RTL High-Level Synthesis	Lecture 10		HW #3     Lab #3
	High-Level Synthesis Algorithms	Lecture 11
9 Oct 19/21	Operation Scheduling	Lecture 12
10 Oct 26/28	Resource Allocation, Sharing and Binding	Lecture 13
11 Nov 2/4	Review	Previous Exams		Project
	Exam	-
12 Nov 9/11	Emulation & FPGA Prototyping	Lecture 14
	System Integration	Lecture 15
13 Nov 16/18	Verification of SoCs	Lecture 17
	SoC Testing	Lecture 16
14 Nov 23/25
	Thanksgiving Holiday	-
15 Nov 30/Dec 2	Project Design Reviews	-		-
Finals Dec 11	Project Presentations	-		-