Course pages 2016–17

System-on-Chip Design

The main difference this year from previous years is that High-Level Synthesis has been added. Additionally, Assertion-Based Design will not be examinable and probably not lectured. And, as per last year, the SystemC net-level facilities will not be lectured - we'll just do enough SystemC to cover TLM modelling.

Primary Materials

• Lecture Notes (As Printed) (138 pages, PDF)

• Lecture Notes with minor corrections, additional material and non-lectured sections (180+ pages, PDF)

• Slide Pack 1 SP1-RTL

• Slide Pack 2 SP2-POWER

• Slide Pack 3 SP3-Design Partition

• Slide Pack 4 SP4-RTL.

• (Slide Pack 5 - Assertion-Based Design not lectured this year.)

• Slide Pack 6 SP7-ESL.

• Slide Pack 7 SP7-HLS.

Exercise Sheets

Quick Sheet 1+2 PDF.

Exercise Sheets 1+2 PDF.

Quick Sheet 3+4 PDF.

Exercise Sheets 3+4 PDF.

Quick Sheet 6+7 (ESL+HLS) PDF.

Exercise Sheets 6+7 (ESL+HLS) PDF.

Further Resources and Secondary Materials

• Online magazine: DESIGN AND REUSE.

• Design and Layout of 8-bit Kogge Stone Adder 8 Pages (PDF).

• MOSIS AMI 0.5 micron Cell Library 98 Pages (PDF).

• Zynq 7000 Technical Reference Manual (PDF)

• Zynq 7000 Documents Folder.

• ARM Generic Interrupt Controller GIC PDF.

• SystemC and ESL Optional Practicals: Toy 1-2: SystemC and Toy 3-6: ESL.

• Prazor Virtual Platform.

• Kiwi HLS Optional Practicals: ... To be added

Previous Years

Last year’s course materials are still available.