Course

Syllabus

Introduction to System Level Design Generic Co-Design MethodologyHardware-Software Co-Design Models and Architectures Languages for System Level Specification, Design and Modelling. Design Representation for System Level Synthesis Models of ComputationArchitectural, SelectionPartitioningScheduling and Communication. Hardware – Software Co-Simulation of Embedded SystemsSynthesisVerification and Virtual Prototyping – Implementation Case Studies Performance Analysis and Optimization Re-Targetable Code Generation FPGAs and Heterogeneous platforms

Text Books / References

1. Patrick R. Schaumont, “A Practical Introduction to Hardware/Software Co-design”, Second Edition, Springer, 2013.
2. Jorgen Staunstrup and Wayne Wolf, “Hardware/Software Co-design: Principle and Practice”, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
3. Giovanni De Micheli, “Readings in Hardware Software Co-design “, Morgan Kaufmann, Academic Press, 2002.
4. Daniel D. Gajski, Frank Vahid, Sanjiv Narayan, Jie Gong, “Specification and Design of Embedded Systems”, Pearson Education publishing, 1994 edition, 2008 Impression.
5. Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Embedded Processor Hardware Design UG898 (v2017.3) October 27, 2017.

Pre-requisite: Nil

Course Objectives:

• To Introduce thesystem-level design methodologies, Hardware-Software Co-Design concepts, and the use of languages for system-level specification, modelling, and design.
• To provide knowledge on design representation, models of computation, system partitioning, scheduling, and communication strategies for efficient system-level synthesis.
• To impart hardware-software co-simulation techniques, verification methods, virtual prototyping, performance optimization, and implementation on FPGAs.

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