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Wednesday |
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1
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September 30
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Lecture 1: Introduction and setup
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- Course overview
- Course administration, set up
- Embedded system design, challenges
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October 2
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Lecture 2: Embedded system modeling
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- Abstraction levels, top-down design flow
- Models of computation, system-level description languages
- Separation of concerns, computation and communication
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2
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October 7
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Lecture 3: System modeling concepts
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- C/C++ language foundation, data types
- Structural hierarchy
- Behavioral hierarchy, exception handling
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October 9
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Lecture 4: System modeling concepts
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- Communication and synchronization
- Hierarchical channels and interfaces
- Time and timing constraints
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3
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October 14
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Lecture 5: IEEE SystemC language
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- SystemC from the ground up,
Part 1 (pages 1-25)
- Introduction and core concepts
- SystemC modeling syntax
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October 16
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Lecture 6: IEEE SystemC language
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- SystemC from the ground up,
Part 2 (pages 25-43)
- Modules and connectivity
- Processes and events
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4
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October 21
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Lecture 7: IEEE SystemC language
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- SystemC from the ground up,
Part 3 (pages 44-56)
- Elaboration and simulation, SystemC scheduler
- Channels, interfaces, ports
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October 23
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Lecture 8: SLDL execution semantics
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- Motivating examples
- Discrete event simulation algorithm
- SystemC scheduler
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5
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October 28
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Lecture 9: Embedded system specification
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- Top-down system design flow
- Specification modeling guidelines
- Project discussion, specification model
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October 30 Nov. 6, 2pm, DBH 1300
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Lecture 10: IEEE SystemC language
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- SystemC from the ground up,
Part 4 (pages 57-78)
- Bus modeling
- Odds and ends
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6
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November 4
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Lecture 11: Embedded system design flow
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November 6
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Lecture 12: Embedded system specification
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- Project discussion, specification model
- Structural refinement of DUT module
- Profiling of algorithm complexity
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7
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November 11
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Veteran's Day
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November 13
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Lecture 13: Embedded system design flow
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- Specify-explore-refine methodology
- System-level communication architecture
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8
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November 18
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Lecture 14: IEEE SystemC language
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- Transaction Level Modeling (TLM)
- TLM in SystemC, v1.0, v2.0
- The Definitive Guide to SystemC,
TLM-2.0 (pages 1-46)
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November 20
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Lecture 15: Embedded system timing estimation
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- Project discussion
- Performance profiling, estimation
- Pipelining and parallelization
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9
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November 25
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Lecture 16: Embedded system optimization
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- Performance optimization of the application example
- Pipelined platform module
- Parallelization of bottle-neck blocks
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November 27
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Lecture 17: Unified Modeling Language (UML)
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- Project discussion
- Performance optimization, pipeline balancing
- UML 2.0 overview and examples
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10
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December 2
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Lecture 18: RTL component modeling
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- Hardware modeling at RTL abstraction
- Hardware and software synthesis
- RTL modules in SystemC
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December 4
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Lecture 19: Project discussion
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- Final report: Canny case study
- Course wrap-up, future work
- Outlook: Parallel Discrete Event Simulation (PDES)
- Research: Recoding Infrastructure for SystemC (RISC)
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Final
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December 9
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Final Exam
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8:00-10:00am
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