Spring 2011

This course is a full semester project involving the entire class in one System on a Chip design experience. This includes, Requirements Definition, High-level design, System Specification, Algorithmic Modeling, Decomposition, IP selection and/or IP creation for re-use, Synthesis, Simulation and Testing. The system will be a true SoC with at least one processor core with associated system and application software.   Lectures will present the philosophy of SoC as well the practical issues involved in the SoC design methodology. State of the art CAD software will be used for design and co-simulation of the hardware/software platform.

Text: A Practical Introduction to Hardware/Software Codesign

Overview Slides

Outline:

Week 1: Topics overview and goals for the course.

                Picking a design problem.

                Overview of SoC

                Project Groups formed