Embedded System Design and Modeling

EE382V, Unique: 17295
Semester: Fall 2008

Course Outline

Week	Topic	Notes	Reading	Assignments
1 Aug 28	Introduction and Overview	Lecture 1     (Notes 1 )	Green book, Ch. 1	-
2 Sep 2,4	Models of Computation, Languages	Lecture 2     (Notes 2 )	Yellow book, Ch. 1a Green book, Ch. 2.1, 2.3   [1, 2*]	-
3 Sep 9,11	The SpecC System-Level Design Language	Lecture 3     (Notes 3 )	Yellow book, Ch. 1b Green book, Ch. 3   [3]	Homework #1
4 Sep 16,18	System Design Flow and Design Methodology	Lecture 4     (Notes 4 )	Yellow book, Ch. 2 Green book, Ch. 4   [4, 5, 6*]	-
5 Sep 23,25	System-Level Design Tools, Design Example	Lecture 5     (Notes 5 )	Yellow book, Ch. 5, 3 Green book, Ch. 5   [7, 8, 9*]	Homework #2
6 Sep 29, Oct 2	System Specification, Validation and Analysis	Lecture 6     (Notes 6 )	SCE Spec. Manual   [10*, 11*]	-
7 Oct 7,9	Discrete-Event Execution and Simulation Semantics	Lecture 7	SpecC LRM, V2.0 Black book, Ch. 2.10   [12*]	-
8 Oct 14,16	Review, Midterm		-	-
9 Oct 21,23	Guest Lecture (Prof. Evans): DSP and Communication Systems Project discussions, project proposal presentations	Evans Lecture	-	-
10 Oct 28,30	SCE Design Examples and Case Studies	Lecture 8	-    [13*]	-
11 Nov 4,6	The SystemC System-Level Design Language Guest Lecture (ESLX): SystemC Tutorial	Lecture 9     SystemC Tutorial	Black book SystemC LRM   [14,15*]	Homework #3
12 Nov 11,13	Computation Refinement, Processor and OS modeling	Lecture 10	[16*,17*]	-
13 Nov 18,20	Communication Refinement, Transaction-Level Modeling	Lecture 11	[18*,19*]	-
14 Nov 25,27	Review and Wrapup, Thanksgiving Holiday			-
15 Dec 2,4	Project presentations			Project Report

^* Material not covered in the textbooks.
 

Supplemental Information

• Lecture 2: Models of Computation, Languages
  • Prof. Brian Evans' lecture notes on Process Networks.
  • Prof. Brian Evans' lecture notes on Synchronous Dataflow.
     
• Lecture 12: Project report
  • Prof. Stephen A. Edwards' guide on writing scholarly papers.
  • Another guide for writing technical articles from Columbia University.
  • Tips for writing technical papers from Stanford's InfoLab.