System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Design

Regular Graduate Program

EE382V, Unique: 17070
Semester: Fall 2012



Tentative Course Outline

Week Topic Lecture Notes Instructor Assignments
1
Aug 30
                  Class Overview and Introduction                     Lecture 0         Lab #1  
2
Sep 4/6
  Project Overview     Lecture 1         HW #1  
  DRM Tutorial     Lecture 2    
3
Sep 11/13
  Requirement and Performance Analysis     Lecture 3        
  HW/SW Co-Design     Lecture 4    
4
Sep 18/20
  Task Partitioning     Lecture 5       HW #2  
  Real-Time Task Scheduling     Lecture 6    
5
Sep 25/27
  SystemC & TLM 2.0 Tutorial     Lecture 7  
(Engine )
  Black     Lab #2  
  Black  
6
Oct 2/4
  System-Level Design     Lecture 8          
  Hardware Accelerators and Co-Processors     Lecture 9     McDermott  
7
Oct 9/11
  Mapping Applications to Hardware     Lecture 10     Smith     HW #3  
  Electronic System-Level Models     Lecture 11     Smith  
8
Oct 16/18
  C-to-RTL High-Level Synthesis     Lecture 12  
  (Catapult C )  
      Lab #3  
   
9
Oct 23/25
  Operation Scheduling     Lecture 13        
  Advanced Scheduling and Pipelining    
10
Oct 30/Nov 1
  Resource Allocation and Binding     Lecture 14        
  Advanced High-Level Synthesis, Review     Lecture 15    
11
Nov 6/8
  System Metrics     Lecture 16     McDermott     Project  
  Exam     Previous Exams
(Solutions )  
 
12
Nov 13/15
  Synthesizing SystemC to Layout     Lecture 17     Bohm      
  Emulation & FPGA Prototyping     Lecture 18     Smith  
13
Nov 20/22
  System Integration     Lecture 19     Smith      
  Thanksgiving Holiday     -      
14
Nov 27/29
  Verification & Test     Lecture 20          
  Wrapup     Lecture 21    
15
Dec 4/6
  Project Design Reviews     -       -  
Finals
Dec 13
  Project Presentations     -       -  

 


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