Hardware-Software Codesign 軟 硬 體 共 同 設 計

Hardware-Software Codesign
軟 硬 體 共 同 設 計
943-U0090
Sao-Jie Chen
csj@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw
Spring 2007

Objectives
• A core embedded into an SOC (System-on-Chip)
environment helps the SOC accomplish some dedicated
set of tasks. In this course, students will learn how to
design the hardware and software parts of an embedded
SOC, from its specification to the final product.
• Learn the state-of-art techniques in designing the
hardware and software parts of embedded SOC systems,
including specification models, specification languages,
partitioning, synthesis, and verification of these hardware
and software parts.
• In addition to a series of lectures presented by the
professors and some experienced engineers from industry,
students have also to prepare a presentation on the
growing trends of Hardware-Software Co-design
techniques in embedded SOC systems by searching
materials from the Web.

• Prerequisite: Programming Language (C
or C++) and/or Verilog
• Target students: Graduate students with
CS and/or VLSI background.
• Grading rules: Homework assignments
30%, Reports 30%, Design project 40%.

Outline
• System Level Design Overview
• Model of Computation in Co-design
• HW/SW Co-design Architectures and Specification
Languages
• Function/Architecture Co-design
• System-Level Design with SystemC
• Architecture Synthesis and System Partitioning
• Platform-Based SOC System Co-design
• On-Chip Bus and Network on Chip
• Case Study: Cognitive Radio Front-end and Baseband
• Case Study: H.264 Motion Estimation (ME)
• Simulation and Verification
• Real-World Electronics System Level (ESL) Design
Tools (CoWare).

References
• B. M. Al-Hashimi ed., System On Chip: Next Generation
Electronics, ©2006, IET, (textbook).
• Y. L. Lin ed., Essentials in SoC Design, ©2006, Springer.
• T. Grotker, S. Liao, G. Martin, and S. Swan, System
Design with SystemC, ©2002, Kluwer Academic
Publishers.
• F. Vahid, and T. Givargis, Embedded System Design: A
Unified Hardware/Sofware Introduction, ©2002, John
Wiley & Sons Inc.
• D. Gajski, F. Vahid, S. Narayan, and J. Gong,
Specification and Design of Embedded Systems, ©1994,
Prentice Hall.
• B. Tabbara, A. Tabbara, and A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli,
Function/Architecture Optimization and Co-design of
Embedded Systems, ©2000, Kluwer Academic
Publishers.

Schedule (I)
• 96.02.27 System Level Design Overview 陳 少 傑 教 授
• 96.03.06 Models of Computation in Co-design 陳 少 傑 教
授
• 96.03.13 HW-SW Co-design Architectures and
Specification Languages 陳 少 傑 教 授
• 96.03.20 Function/Architecture Co-design 陳 少 傑 教 授
• 96.03.27 Co-design of a Reconfigurable FPGA System
李 宗 演 教 授
• 96.04.03 SLD with SystemC 熊 博 安 教 授
• 96.04.10 Architecture Synthesis: A HW/SW Partitioning
Tool 蘇 培 陞 博 士
• 96.04.17 Platform-Based SoC System Co-design 陳 少 傑
教 授
• 96.04.24 On-Chip Bus and Network on Chip 陳 少 傑 教 授

Schedule (II)
• 96.05.01Case Study: Cognitive Radio with a Multi-Mode
RF Front-End 陳 少 傑 教 授
• 96.05.08 Case Study: Cognitive Radio Baseband Design
闕 志 達 教 授
• 96.05.15 Case Study: H.264 ME 陳 少 傑 教 授
• 96.05.22 Simulation and Verification 陳 少 傑 教 授
• 96.05.29 Real-World Electronic System Level (ESL)
Design Tools 陳 哲 生 博 士
• 96.06.05 Presentation of Co-design topics (I) 修 課 學 生
• 96.06.12 Presentation of Co-design topics (II) 修 課 學 生
• 96.06.19 端 午 節 ( 放 假 )
• 96.06.26 Presentation of Co-design topics (III) 修 課 學 生