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Course Catalog 2010-2011

TKT-2437 SoC Design, 5 cr

Person responsible

Erno Salminen

Lessons

Study type	P1	P2	P3	P4	Summer	Implementations	Lecture times and places
Lectures Excercises Assignment	2 h/week  2 h/week  3 h/week	+2 h/week +2 h/week +3 h/week				TKT-2437 2010-01	Wednesday 10 - 12, TC427 Wednesday 14 - 16, TB223

Requirements

Exam and completed exercise work.

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

To avoid using POP/ROCK-systems. All the information will be available from course's web page http://www.tkt.cs.tut.fi/kurssit/2431/

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student knows the design process of complex digital (computer) systems. The main concepts and implementation steps are learned with emphasis on system-on-chip (SoC) devices and embedded systems. In the exercise work, students practice HW/SW co-design and system integration, verification, and prototyping. Students implement a small video encoding system on FPGA. At first, all computation is performed with software. After that, the performance is increased by integrating a special accelerator HW block.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Introduction to system-on-chip (SoC), technology development trends, the challenges in system design.	Moore's law, International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)
2.	Management of design complexity, reuse, execution platform, platform-based design	Standardized component interfaces, such as OCP
3.	The importance and basic methods of verification in system design, various abstraction levels.
4.	Performance estimation, optimization, and modeling
5.	Parallel execution, on-chip communication, power and energy consumption in digital logic
6.	HW/SW co-design

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Lecture slides		Erno Salminen					English
Other literature	Collection of journal and conference articles	Various					English

Prerequisites

Course	Mandatory/Advisable	Description
TKT-1426 Digital Design for FPGA	Mandatory

Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)

Correspondence of content

Course	Corresponds course	Description
TKT-2437 SoC Design, 5 cr	TKT-2436 Introduction to System Design, 5 cr
TKT-2437 SoC Design, 5 cr	TKT-2431 SoC Design, 5 cr

More precise information per implementation

Implementation	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
TKT-2437 2010-01

Last modified

28.08.2010