System-on-Chip Design

Overview

This course introduces basic concepts, issues, and processes of electronic system designs that integrate both hardware and software by following a systematic hardware/software co-design and co-verification principle. It covers system modeling at different levels of abstraction, hardware/software partition and co-verification, high-level synthesis, hardware architectures, etc.

Syllabus can be found here.

Slides

(to be expanded throughout the semester)

Subjects	Slides	Reading
Course Overview and Introduction Overview on HW/SW Co-Design	PPT PPT	Embedded book: section 1.1 - 1.5, Chapter 2 CoDesign book: Chapter 1
Data Flow Modeling	PDF	CoDesign book: Section 2.1 - 2.3
Data Flow Software Implementation	PDF	CoDesign book: Section 3.1
Data Flow hardware and hybrid Implementation	PDF	CoDesign book: Section 3.2 - 3.3 (Skip the GEZEL code)
Analysis of Control Flow and Data Flow	PDF	CoDesign book: Chapter 4
SystemC Introduction	PDF	SystemC-1: Chapter 1 & 2 SystemC-2: Chapter 1 SystemC Quick Reference Card Hardware/Software Co-Verificatioin SystemC Examples
SystemC RTL Modeling	PDF	SystemC-1: Chapter 4 (Skip 4.3, 4.4.6 - 4.4.7)
SystemC Transaction-Level Modeling	PDF	SystemC-1: Chapter 5, section 8.1 - 8.2
Refinement	PDF	SystemC-1: Section 9.1 - 9.3 A code example of channel refinement refinement.cpp
Principles of HW/SW Interface	PDF	CoDesign book: Chapter 9
On-Chip Buses	PDF	CoDesign book: Chapter 10 (skip 10.2.2)
Sw & HW Interfaces	PDF	CoDesign book: Section 11.1 - 11.2 (skip 11.1.6, 11.2.2.) 12.1 - 11.3 (skip 12.3.2.) Skim 12.4
High-Level Synthesis	PDF	An Introduction to High-Level Synthesis
Introduction to Zynq: an All Programmable SoC	PPT	The Zynq Book

Similar Courses

• ECE 522: Hardware/Sofware Codesign with FPGAs
• ECE 699 Software/Hardware Codesign
• UT Austin EE382V: System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Design
• UC Irvine EECS222A: SOC DESC/MODELING
• ETH AS 2015, Hardware/Software Codesign

References

• www.zedboard.org
  You can find a large number of documents, tutorials, and reference designs for zedboard. For access, you need to create an account and sign in.
• The Zynq Book and the companion tutorials
• Zynq Concepts, Tools, and Techniques on ZedBoard
  An introduction to Zynq design using the Xilinx Vivado or ISE Design Suite (Vivado recommended)
• The Zynq Book (Free download for the electronic version)
• Tutorials accompanying The Zynq Book

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