System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Design

EE382V, Unique: 16835
Semester: Spring 2010

Tentative Course Outline

Week	Topic	Lecture Notes	Comments	Assignments
1 Jan 19/21	Class Overview and Introduction	Lecture 0	Abraham	Lab #1
	C++ Review	Lecture 1a	Xtreme EDA
2 Jan 26/28	SystemC Tutorial     (SystemC Simulation Engine)	Lecture 1b     (Engine )	Xtreme EDA	HW #1
3 Feb 2/4	Project Overview	Lecture 2
	DRM Tutorial	Lecture 3
4 Feb 9/11	Requirements and Performance Analysis	Lecture 4		HW #2
	Mapping Applications to Architectures	Lecture 5	Smith
5 Feb 16/18	System Design Methodology	Lecture 6		Lab #2
	System Modeling, Synthesis and Verification
6 Feb 23/25	HW/SW Co-Design	Lecture 7
	Partitioning	Lecture 8
7 Mar 2/4	Real-Time Scheduling	Lecture 9
	SystemC TLM2.0	Lecture 10a     (Lecture 10b )	Xtreme EDA
8 Mar 9/11	Transaction-Level Modeling & Electronic System-Level Languages	Lecture 11	McDermott
	Hardware Accelerators, Co-processors and Media Instructions	Lecture 12	McDermott
9 Mar 16/18	Spring Break	-		-
10 Mar 23/25	C-to-RTL High-Level Synthesis	Lecture 13     (Catapult C )		Lab #3
	Synthesis Models and Architectures	Lecture 14
11 Mar 30/Apr 1	Operation Scheduling	Lecture 15		HW #3
	Scheduling and Pipelining
12 Apr 6/8	Resource Allocation and Binding	Lecture 16
	FPGA Prototyping	Lecture 17
13 Apr 13/15	Review	Previous Exams		Project
	Exam	-
14 Apr 20/22	Verification of SoCs	Lecture 18	Abraham
	SoC Testing	Lecture 19	Abraham
15 Apr 27/29	System Integration	Lecture 20	Smith
	Wrapup	-
16 May 4/6	Project Design Reviews	-		-
Finals May 13	Project Presentations	-		-