Embedded System Design and Modeling

EE382V, Unique: 17190
Semester: Fall 2011

Course Outline

Week	Topic	Notes	Reading	Assignments
1 Aug 25	Introduction and Overview	Lecture 1	Orange book, Ch. 1   [1]	-
2 Aug 30, Sep 1	Design Methodologies, Models and Languages	Lecture 2	Orange book, Ch. 2, 3.2   [2, 3, 4]	Homework #1
3 Sep 6, 8	The SpecC and SystemC Languages	Lecture 3	Yellow Book, Ch. 1   [5] Black Book   [6]	Lab #1
4 Sep 13, 15	Language Semantics and System Specification	Lecture 4	Black Book, Ch. 2.10   [B, 7] Orange Book, Ch. 3.1   [8, 9]
5 Sep 20, 22	Models of Computation: Process-Based	Lecture 5	Orange Book, Ch. 3.1.1   [10, 11, 12]
6 Sep 27, 29	Models of Computation: State-Based	Lecture 6	Orange Book, Ch. 3.1.2   [13, 14, 15]	Homework #2
7 Oct 4, 6	System-Level Synthesis	Lecture 7	Orange Book, Ch. 4   [16, 17]	Lab #2
8 Oct 11, 13	System Evaluation and Refinement	Lecture 8	Orange Book, Ch. 3.3   [18, 19, 20] Yellow Book, Ch. 2   [21, 22, 23]
9 Oct 18, 20	Computation Refinement and Modeling	Lecture 9	Orange Book, Ch. 3.4   [24, 25, 26]
10 Oct 25, 27	Communication Refinement and Transaction-Level Modeling	Lecture 10	Orange Book, Ch. 3.5   [27, 28, 29]	Homework #3
11 Nov 1, 3	System Modeling	Lecture 11	Orange Book, Ch. 3.6   [30, 31]
12 Nov 8, 10	Midterm     Guest Lecture (Prof. Evans): DSP/Comm. Systems			-
13 Nov 15, 17	System-Level Design Tools	Lecture 12	Orange Book, Ch. 8   [16, 32]
14 Nov 22, 24	Review and Wrapup, Thanksgiving Holiday			-
15 Nov 29, Dec 1	Project presentations			Project Report

^* Material beyond what is covered in the textbooks.
 

Supplemental Information

• Lectures 6: Models of Computation
  • Prof. Brian Evan's lecture notes on process-based models:
    • Block diagrams and Synchronous/reactive.
    • Discrete Event.
    • Process Networks.
    • Synchronous Dataflow.
      • SDF Scheduling.
      • SDF Looped Scheduling.
    • Boolean Dataflow and Cyclo-Static Dataflow.
  • Statecharts/Statemate course:
    • Semantics of Statecharts.
  • Prof. Peter Marwedel's text book slides on Embedded Systems:
    • Chapter 2, lectures 3 through 9 (slides 2.01 through 2.07)
  • Prof. Lothar Thiele's lecture notes and references on hardware/software codesign:
    • Lecture 2
• Lecture 7: System Synthesis
  • Prof. Peter Marwedel's text book slides on Embedded Systems:
    • Chapter 6, lectures 19 through 24 (slides 6.1 through 6.6)
  • Prof. Lothar Thiele's lecture notes and references on hardware/software codesign:
    • Lectures 5 through 8