System-on-Chip (SoC) Design

ECE382M.20, Unique: 18085
Semester: Fall 2023

Course Outline (Tentative)

Week	Topic	Lecture Notes	Instructor	Assignments
1 Aug 22/24	Class & Project Overview	Lecture 0
	Object Recognition & Deep Learning Tutorial	Lecture 1
2 Aug 29/31	System-Level Design Methodology	Lecture 2		HW #1     Lab #1
	Joint guest lecture with ECE382M.7 (VLSI), EER 1.518	-	Wally Rhines
3 Sep 5/7	The SystemC Language	Lecture 3
	Transaction-Level Modeling (TLM) in SystemC	Lecture 4
4 Sep 12/14	System Architecture & HW/SW Co-Design	Lecture 5
	HW/SW Partitioning & Scheduling	Lecture 6
5 Sep 19/21	Hardware Accelerators and Co-Processors	Accel/CoPro	Mark McDermott	HW #2     Lab #2
	Architecture and Design of Meta's ML Inference ASIC		Soheil Gharahi
6 Sep 26/28	C-to-RTL High-Level Synthesis (HLS)	Lecture 7
	High-Level Synthesis Algorithms	Lecture 8
7 Oct 3/5	HLS Operation Scheduling	Lecture 9
8 Oct 10/12	HLS Resource Binding and Sharing	Lecture 10		HW #3     Lab #3
	Advanced HLS Techniques	Lecture 11
9 Oct 17/19	Accelerator integration & interfacing	Lecture 12
10 Oct 24/26	SoC Communication Architectures	Lecture 13
11 Oct 31/Nov 2	Review	Previous Exams		Project
	Exam	-
12 Nov 7/9	Emulation & FPGA Prototyping	Lecture 14
	System Software Integration	Lecture 15
13 Nov 14/16	SoC Verification	Lecture 16
	SoC Testing	Lecture 17
14 Nov 21/23	Fall Break / Thanksgiving Holiday
15 Nov 28/30	Project Design Reviews	-		-
Finals Dec 8	Project Presentations	-		-