System-on-Chip (SoC) Design

ECE382M.20, Unique: 19190
Semester: Fall 2026

Reference Material

• Board Documentation
  • Ultra96-V2 board documentation
  • Information about the Ultra96-V2 board by Linaro
  • Wiki entry for the Ultra96 board in the Open Hardware Repository
  • Ultra96 USB-to-JTAG/UART Pod documentation
  • AMD/Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC documentation
  • AMD/Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ Device Technical Reference Manual
  • AMD/Xilinx support site (forums, etc.)
     
• Software Development
  • AMD/Xilinx Wiki
  • AND PYNQ webpage and Github repo
  • AMD/Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC Software Developer Guide
  • PetaLinux Tools Reference Guide
  • Additional PetaLinux tools documentation and resources
     
• Hardware Tools
  • Vitis HLS User Guide including Vitis HLS tutorials
  • Additional Vitis HLS documentation and resources
  • Vivado Design Suite User Guide
  • Additional Vivado documentation and resources
     
• SystemC & C++
  • Accelera SystemC™ standards
  • IEEE Standard SystemC Language Reference Manual
  • SystemC and SystemC TLM-2.0 Guides from Doulos (includes a brief SystemC Tutorial)
  • Learn SystemC with examples
  • Another SystemC tutorial
     
• LLMs and llama.cpp
  • Transformer model illustration and Hands-On Large Language Models book.
  • llama.cpp website, Github repo, and it's main kernel and file format
  • LLM inference with llama.cpp
  • llama.cpp architecture and inference on Arm
     

Links

• Additional references
  • D. D. Gajski, S. Abdi, A. Gerstlauer, G. Schirner, Embedded System Design: Modeling, Synthesis, Verification, Springer, 2009.
  • F. Vahid, T. Givargis, Embedded System Design: A Unified Hardware/Software Introduction, John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
  • M. Wolf, Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design, Fifth Edition, Morgan Kaufman, 2022.
  • R. Zurawski (Editor), Embedded Systems Handbook, Second Edition, CRC Press, 2009.
  • T. Noergaard, Embedded Systems Architecture: A Comprehensive Guide for Engineers and Programmers, Second Edition, Newnes, 2012.
     
• Other Classes at UT
  • Cross-Layer ML Algorithm and Hardware Co-Design co-taught by Profs. Mattan Erez and Michael Orshansky
  • My other Embedded System Design and Modeling class
     
• Classes at other universities
  • Columbia University's System-on-Chip Platforms by Prof. Carloni
  • Cornell University's High-Level Digital Design Automation by Prof. Zhang