Course material 2010–11

System-on-Chip Design

Principal lecturer: Dr David Greaves
Taken by: Part II
Syllabus
Past exam questions:

• System-on-Chip Design,
• Structured Hardware Design (some are relevant)
• (VLSI Design) (not highly-relevant)

Information for supervisors (contact lecturer for access permission)

I will hand out a copy of the Lecture Notes (130 pages, PDF) to all part II students.

During lectures I will use the HTML lecture notes instead (links added as we go):

• Introduction
• LG1-5 (RTL ... Interface).       Exercises LG1-4 (PDF).
• LG6 (SystemC Basic).       Exercises LG6 (PDF).
• LG7-8 (SoC Parts/ISS).
• LG9-10 (ESL Modelling).       Exercises LG7-10 (PDF).
• LG11 (ABD).       Exercises LG11 (PDF).
• LG12 (Bus/NoC)       Exercises LG12-15 (PDF).
• LG13-15 (Tools/Design Exploration/Power).
• LG16 (High-Level Synthesis) (Only IP-XACT lectured this year).

(Large font lecture notes as PDF: Large Font Notes (240 pages) but I would instead recommend using the HTML slides set to your own preference size.)

Course Evaluation and Feedback: Online Form (use only after 25th May).

Additional material:

Various links will be placed here, including how to run some examples on the PWF.

• Try-it-yourself: SystemC Get Started Examples: Hello World etc..

• Try-it-yourself: Toy Classes RTL and TLM-1 style experiments (on PWF linux - check 'thisyears-toyclasses' folder). Here is a snapshot after last lecture: TOYCLASSES.ZIP.

• Try-it-yourself: TLM experiments using TLM2.0 standard and OR1K CPU (zip).

• Try-it-yourself: Ethernet CRC processor illustrating direct-calling ESL model(zip).

• the-future-of-microprocessors