System-on-Chip (SoC) Design

ECE382M.20, Unique: 19190
Semester: Fall 2026

Course Outline (Tentative)

Week	Topic	Lecture Notes	Instructor	Assignments
1 Aug 25/27	Class & Project Overview	Lecture 0
	LLM and Llama Tutorial	Lecture 1
2 Sep 1/3	System-Level Design Methodology	Lecture 2		HW #1     Lab #1
	HW/SW Co-Design	Lecture 3
3 Sep 8/10	HW/SW Partitioning	Lecture 4
	Task Scheduling	Lecture 5
4 Sep 15/17	C-to-RTL High-Level Synthesis (HLS)	Lecture 6
5 Sep 22/24	SystemC & SystemC TLM		David Black	HW #2     Lab #2
6 Sep 29/Oct 1	HLS Operation Scheduling	Lecture 7
7 Oct 6/8	Hardware Accelerators and Co-Processors		Mark McDermott
	Architecture and Design of Meta's ML Inference ASIC		Dimitris Gourounas
8 Oct 13/15	HLS Resource Binding and Sharing
	Advanced HLS Techniques
9 Oct 20/22	Accelerator integration & interfacing
10 Oct 27/29	SoC Communication Architectures
11 Nov 3/5	Review
	Exam	-
12 Nov 10/12	Emulation & FPGA Prototyping
	System Software Integration
13 Nov 17/19	SoC Testing
	From RTL to Silicon: Verification Architecture for Modern SoCs		Vikash Kumar
14 Nov 24/26	Fall Break / Thanksgiving Holiday
15 Dec 1/3	Project Design Reviews	-		-
Finals Dec 8	Project Presentations	-		-