The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

EE 382V-ICS, System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Design, Fall 2010 (Unique number 17003)

INSTRUCTOR:

Jacob A. Abraham
Office: ACES 6.124A, Phone: (512) 471-8983
Office hours: MW 2:30 - 3:30 pm, or by appointment
E-mail:

Teaching Assistant Hyungman Park
E-mail:

TA information and links to labs

ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION HOURS:
Some Sundays, 3:00pm - 4:30pm, ACES 2.404

Announcements:

Posted on Blackboard

Please post all course related questions of general nature to the class' Discussion Board (which will be checked regularly by the instructor and TA) and use e-mail only for personal questions.

Libraries: On-site reserves for the class
Course-related materials in printed form selected as required or recommended reading for the class.

Course Outline and Schedule (tentative)



DATE INSTRUCTOR TOPIC LAB. ASSIGNMENT
August 20-21 1. Introduction, Overview Abraham  
  2. Project Overview McDermott  
  3. Basic C++ for System C Black  
  4. System Modeling and System C Black  
  5. Introduction to TLM Black Lab. 1 Assigned  
September 24-25 6. Hardware Mapping, TLM Smith  
  7. Models of Computation Gerstlauer  
  8. Design Methodologies Gerstlauer Lab. 2 Assigned
October 15-16 9. HW/SW Co-Design Gerstlauer  
10. High Level Synthesis Gerstlauer  
11. Scheduling Gerstlauer  
  12. Resource Allocation and Binding Gerstlauer Lab. 3 Assigned
November 12-13 13. Emulation and FPGAs Smith  
  Exam    
  14. Verification of SoC Designs Abraham  
  15. SoC Testing Abraham  
December 2-3 16. System-Level Modeling McDermott  
  17. Integration Smith  
  Project Reviews  


GRADES: 

Homework              15%
Exam                  20%
Laboratory Exercises  30%
Project               35%

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