Spring 2013 textbook list
The Spring 2013 ECE textbook list is available online for students.
Current Prerequisites & Course Offering
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ECE 5514 Design of Systems on a Chip (3C)
Current state of the art in the system-level design of Systems on a Chip. The focus is in the hardware, scheduling, and applications at the highest levels of design.
What is the reason for this course?
The combination of single-chip transistor desnity, size, and power constraints, and the end of an era of steady growth of performance for single core processors has led to the era of Systems on a Chip in which multiple cores cooperate to carry out some computing goal. Currently, the questions outpace the solutions in this area of research, even though there is a body of research that has begun on Systems on a Chip and multi-core computing in the past decade. This course is structured to ehlp students understand the state of the art of Systems on a Chip design and, in so doing, prepare them to critically evaluate future research as it develops over the next decades.
Typically offered: Fall, Spring. Program Area: Computers.
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing.
Why are these prerequisites or corequisites required?
This course is proposed at the graduate level because it builds on a broader range of material taught at the advanced undergraduate level.
Department Syllabus Information:
Major Measurable Learning Objectives:- Research major Systems on a Chip topics such as applications, architecture, design, and evaluation
- Develop models for future applications, architecture, design, and evaluation
- Describe the inter-related effects of applications, architecture, design, and evaluation
- Identify, analyze, and predict computing trends
| Course Topics | |
|---|---|
| Topic | Percentage |
| 1. Applications - emerging trends in contrast to specifications and benchmark suites | 20% |
| 2. Architectures - networks on chip and multi-core organization | 20% |
| 3. Design - the impact of simulation and modeling | 20% |
| 4. Evaluation - performance as speed (latency and throughput), power, size and other | 20% |
| 5. Trends Justification - numerical quantification of and written justification of the impact of changes in relationships between Applications, Architectures, Design and Evaluation | 20% |