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Course unit, curriculum year 2021–2022
COMP.CE.400

System Design, 5 cr

Tampere University
Teaching periods
Active in period 3 (1.1.2022–6.3.2022)
Active in period 4 (7.3.2022–15.5.2022)
Active in period 5 (16.5.2022–31.7.2022)
Course code
COMP.CE.400
Language of instruction
English
Academic years
2021–2022, 2022–2023, 2023–2024
Level of study
Advanced studies
Grading scale
General scale, 0-5
Persons responsible
Responsible teacher:
Timo Hämäläinen
Responsible teacher:
Esko Pekkarinen
Responsible teacher:
Panu Sjövall
Responsible organisation
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences 100 %
Coordinating organisation
Computing Sciences Studies 100 %
Core content
  • Introduction to embedded, multi-processor system-on-chip (SoC) technologies.
  • Importance of design reuse and application portability between HW and SW implementations.
  • Principles of model based design with abstraction and orthogonalization of concerns.
  • Layered system model and interfaces.
  • Related HW and SW standards and best practises.
  • Hands-on exercise work implementing a parallel, real-time application on heterogeneous HW/SW platform
Complementary knowledge
  • International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)
  • Modularization of HW and SW components.
  • Y-model based design process. Specification, synthesis, verification.
  • Hardware dependent software, APIs, RTOS
  • IP-XACT, OCP-IP, MCAPI, POSIX, SystemC
  • Performance estimation, measurement, analysis and optimization.
Specialist knowledge
  • Complexity of HW and SW and their trends
  • XML-based metadata for HW/SW component integration.
  • Design automation and tools. Management of configurations.
  • Driver implementation.
  • Embedded Linux
  • Development tools chosen for the course implementation.
Learning outcomes
Prerequisites
Recommended prerequisites
Further information
Learning material
Equivalences
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Completion option 1
To pass the course a minimum number of points must be earned from the exercise tasks. Voluntary exam increases the garde.
Completion of all options is required.

Exam

10.01.2022 31.05.2022
Active in period 3 (1.1.2022–6.3.2022)
Active in period 4 (7.3.2022–15.5.2022)
Active in period 5 (16.5.2022–31.7.2022)
16.05.2022 29.05.2022
Active in period 5 (16.5.2022–31.7.2022)

Participation in teaching

10.01.2022 25.05.2022
Active in period 3 (1.1.2022–6.3.2022)
Active in period 4 (7.3.2022–15.5.2022)
Active in period 5 (16.5.2022–31.7.2022)