System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Design

EE382V, Unique: 17450
Semester: Fall 2014

Tentative Course Outline

Week	Topic	Lecture Notes	Instructor	Assignments
1 Aug 28	Class & Project Overview	Lecture 0     Lecture 1
2 Sep 2/4	C++ Review & SystemC Tutorial	Lecture 2     Lecture 3     (Engine )	Black	HW #1     Lab #1
3 Sep 9/11	DRM Tutorial	Lecture 4
	SoC Design Flow & Performance Analysis	Lecture 5
4 Sep 16/18	Electronic System-Level (ESL) Design	Lecture 6
	SystemC TLM 2.0	Lecture 7   (Examples)	Black
5 Sep 23/25	HW/SW Co-Design	Lecture 8		HW #2     Lab #2
	Real-Time Task Scheduling	Lecture 9
6 Sep 30/Oct 2	Task Partitioning	Lecture 10
	Mapping Applications to Architectures	Lecture 11	Smith
7 Oct 7/9	SoC Communication Architectures	Lecture 12
	Hardware Accelerators and Co-Processors	Lecture 13	McDermott
8 Oct 14/16	C-to-RTL High-Level Synthesis	Lecture 14		HW #3     Lab #3
	High-Level Synthesis Process	Lecture 15
9 Oct 21/23	Operation Scheduling	Lecture 16
	Advanced Scheduling and Pipelining
10 Oct 28/30	Resource Allocation and Binding	Lecture 17
	System Metrics	Lecture 16	McDermott
11 Nov 4/6	Communication and Interface Synthesis	(Lecture 12 )		Project
	Emulation & FPGA prototyping	Lecture 18
12 Nov 11/13	System Integration	Lecture 19	Smith
	Exam	Previous Exams
13 Nov 18/20	Verification of SoCs	Lecture 20
	SoC Testing	Lecture 21
14 Nov 25/27	Wrapup
	Thanksgiving Holiday	-
15 Dec 2/4	Project Design Reviews	-		-
Finals Dec 11	Project Presentations	-		-