System-on-Chip (SoC) Design

EE382M.20, Unique: 16930
Semester: Fall 2018

Reference Material

• Board Documentation
  • Zedboard documentation
  • Zedboard reference designs/tutorials
  • Additional Zedboard tutorials
  • Zynq-7000 All-Programmable SoC Technical Reference Manual
  • Xilinx Zynq forums
  • Additional Zynq-7000 Documentation and Resources
  • L. H. Crockett, R. A. Elliot, M. A. Enderwitz, R. W. Stewart, The Zynq Book, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 2014.
     
• Software Development
  • Xilinx Wiki
  • PetaLinux Tools Reference Guide
  • Additional PetaLinux tools documentation and resources
     
• Hardware Tools
  • Vivado HLS User Guide and Vivado HLS Tutorial
  • Additional Vivado HLS documentation and resources
  • Vivado Embedded Design User Guide and Vivado Embedded Design Tutorial
  • Additional Vivado documentation and resources
     
• SystemC & C++
  • Accelera SystemC™ standards
  • A SystemC Quick Reference card
  • SystemC Training from Doulos (includes a brief SystemC Tutorial)
  • B. Eckel, Thinking in C++, 2nd Edition.
     
• Visual Object Recognition
  • Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) tutorial
  • Some good online articles about deep learning and objection detection algorithms
  • You Only Look Once (Yolo) object detection CNN and DarkNet neural network engine
  • Xilinx's Tincy Yolo implementation on a Zynq
    • Corresponding paper published at DATE'18
    
     

Links

• Additional references
  • D. D. Gajski, S. Abdi, A. Gerstlauer, G. Schirner, Embedded System Design: Modeling, Synthesis, Verification, Springer, 2009.
  • S. Pasricha, N. Dutt, On-Chip Communication Architectures: System on Chip Interconnect, Morgan Kaufmann, 2008.
  • F. Vahid, T. Givargis, Embedded System Design: A Unified Hardware/Software Introduction, John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
  • 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
  • Mark McDermott's Advanced Embedded System Architecture class
  • My other Embedded System Design and Modeling class