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   COE838 Course Outline Winter 2025

  Tentative Topics

 1. Introduction to System on Chip (SoC) - An SoC Design Approach
 
 2. Introduction to SystemC for SoC Design: 
       * Co-Specificatin, System Partitioning, Co-simulation, Co-synthesis & Co-verification
       * SystemC and Co-specification and Co-simulation

 3. Hardware-Software Co-synthesis and Accelerators based Embedded System Design

 4. Basics of Chips and SoC ICs:
        Cycle Time, Die Area-and-Cost, Power,
        Area-time-Power Tradeoffs and Chip Reliability

 5. System-on-Chip and SoPC (System on Programmable Chips)

 6. SoC CPU/IP Cores and their Selection
     Introduction of ARM Cortex A9, NIOS-II, OpenRISC, Leon4 and OpenSPARC

 7.  SoC Interconnection Structures: Bus-based Structures
     * AMBA Bus
     * IBM Core Connect 
     * Avalon and other Interconnection Structures

 8. NoC (Network-on-Chip) Interconnection Structures and NoC Systems

 9. SoC Verification

 10. SoC Application Case Studies