System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Design

EE382V-ICS, Unique: 17215
Semester: Fall 2011

Tentative Course Outline

Week	Topic	Lecture Notes	Instructor	Assignments
Aug 19	Class Introduction and Project Overview	Lecture 0		Lab #1
	C++ Review	Lecture 1	Xtreme EDA
Aug 20	SystemC Tutorial	Lecture 2a   (Engine )	Xtreme EDA	HW #1
	SystemC TLM	Lecture 2b   (TLM Intro )	Xtreme EDA
Sep 16	Mapping Applications to Hardware	Lecture 3a     Lecture 3b	Smith	Lab #2
	System-Level Design Languages and Models	Lecture 4	Smith
Sep 17	System-Level Design Methodologies	Lecture 5	Gerstlauer	HW #2
	Models of Computation	Lecture 6	Gerstlauer
Oct 14	HW/SW Co-Design	Lecture 7	Gerstlauer	Lab #3
	Partitioning and Real-Time Scheduling	Lecture 8	Gerstlauer
Oct 15	C-to-RTL High-Level Synthesis	Lecture 9   (Catapult C )	Gerstlauer	HW #3
	RTL Allocation, Binding and Scheduling	Lecture 10	Gerstlauer
Nov 11	Exam	Previous Exams (Solutions )		Project
	Emulation and FPGA Prototyping	Lecture 11	Smith
Nov 12	Verification of SoCs	Lecture 12	Abraham
	SoC Testing	Lecture 13a     Lecture 13b	Abraham
Dec 1	System Integration	Lecture 14	Smith
	System Metrics	Lecture 15	McDermott
Dec 2	Project Reviews	-		-