System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Design

EE382V, Unique: 17075
Semester: Spring 2011

Tentative Course Outline

Week	Topic	Lecture Notes	Instructor	Assignments
1 Jan 18/20	Class Overview and Introduction	Lecture 0		Lab #1
	C++ Review	Lecture 1a	Xtreme EDA
2 Jan 25/27	SystemC Tutorial	Lecture 1b   (Engine )	Xtreme EDA	HW #1
3 Feb 1/3	Project Overview	Lecture 2
	DRM Tutorial	Lecture 3
4 Feb 8/10	Requirements and Performance Analysis	Lecture 4		HW #2
	HW/SW Co-Design	Lecture 5
5 Feb 15/17	Partitioning	Lecture 6		Lab #2
	Real-Time Scheduling	Lecture 7
6 Feb 22/24	Mapping Applications to Hardware	Lecture 8	Smith
	Transaction-Level Modeling & System-Level Languages	Lecture 9	Smith
7 Mar 1/3	SystemC TLM2.0	Lecture 10   (TLM intro )
	System-Level Design Methodology	Lecture 11
8 Mar 8/10	Emulation & FPGA Prototyping	Lecture 12	Smith
	ARM SoC Architectures	Lecture 13	B. Feero, ARM
9 Mar 15/17	Spring Break	-		-
10 Mar 22/24	C-to-RTL High-Level Synthesis	Lecture 14     (Catapult C )		Lab #3
	Hardware Accelerators and Co-processors	Lecture 15	McDermott
11 Mar 29/31	Operation Scheduling	Lecture 16		HW #3
	Scheduling and Pipelining
12 Apr 5/7	Resource Allocation and Binding	Lecture 17
	Synthesis Models and Architectures	Lecture 18
13 Apr 12/14	Review	Previous Exams (Solutions )		Project
	Exam	-
14 Apr 19/21	Verification of SoCs	Lecture 19	Abraham
	SoC Testing	Lecture 20	Abraham
15 Apr 26/28	System Integration	Lecture 21	Smith
	Wrapup	-
16 May 3/5	Project Design Reviews	-		-
Finals May 12	Project Presentations	-		-