Course Catalog 2009-2010 International Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Erno Salminen

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 1 : Wednesday 10 - 12, TB216 Per 1, 2 : Wednesday 10 - 12, TB215 Per 2 : Monday 12 - 14, TB215

Requirements

Exam and completed exercise work.

Learning outcomes

Course introduces the design process of complex digital (computer) systems. The main concepts and implementation steps are taught with emphasis on system-on-chip (SoC) devices and embedded systems. In the exercise work, students can practice the HW/SW co-design and their integation, verification, and prototyping. Students inplement a small video encoding system on FPGA chip. 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, 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

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

Correspondence of content

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1	Study year 2009-10		Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	24.04.2009
Modifier	Olli Vainio