System-on-Chip (SoC) Design

EE382M.20, Unique: 16930
Semester: Fall 2018

Course Outline (Tentative)

Week	Topic	Lecture Notes	Instructor	Assignments
1 Aug 30	Class & Project Overview	Lecture 0
2 Sep 4/6	Object Recognition & Deep Learning Tutorial	Lecture 1		HW #1     Lab #1
	Electronic System-Level (ESL) Design Methodology	Lecture 2
3 Sep 11/13	The SystemC Language	Lecture 3
	Transaction-Level Modeling (TLM) in SystemC
4 Sep 18/20	SoC Performance Modeling	Lecture 4
	HW/SW Co-Design	Lecture 5
5 Sep 25/27	Task Partitioning	Lecture 6		HW #2     Lab #2
	Task Scheduling	Lecture 7
6 Oct 2/4	Hardware Accelerators and Co-Processors	Accel/CoPro	Mark McDermott
	Vector Processing with ARM SVE	SVE Seminar	Alex Rico
7 Oct 9/11	HW/SW & Accelerator Interfacing	Lecture 8
	SoC Communication Architectures	Lecture 9
8 Oct 16/18	C-to-RTL High-Level Synthesis	Lecture 10		HW #3     Lab #3
	High-Level Synthesis Algorithms	Lecture 11
9 Oct 23/25	Operation Scheduling	Lecture 12
10 Oct 30/Nov 1	Resource Allocation, Sharing and Binding	Lecture 13
11 Nov 6/8	Emulation & FPGA Prototyping	Lecture 14		Project
	System Integration	Lecture 15
12 Nov 13/15	Review	Previous Exams
	Exam	-
13 Nov 20/22	System Metrics	Metrics	Mark McDermott
	Thanksgiving Holiday	-
14 Nov 25/27	Verification of SoCs	Lecture 16
	SoC Testing	Lecture 17
15 Dec 4/6	Project Design Reviews	-		-
Finals Dec 13	Project Presentations	-		-