VL4002 Hardware Software Co-Design for FPGA Syllabus:
VL4002 Hardware Software Co-Design for FPGA Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To acquire the knowledge about system specification and modelling
To learn the formulation of partitioning
To study the different technical aspects about prototyping and emulation
UNIT I SYSTEM SPECIFICATION AND MODELLING
Embedded Systems, Hardware/Software Co-Design, Co-Design for System Specification and Modeling, Co-Design for Heterogeneous Implementation – Processor Synthesis, Single-Processor Architectures with One ASIC, Single-Processor Architectures with Many ASICs, Multi-Processor Architectures, Comparison of Co-Design Approaches, Models of Computation, Requirements for Embedded System Specification
UNIT II HARDWARE/SOFTWARE PARTITIONING
The Hardware/Software Partitioning Problem, Hardware-Software Cost Estimation, Generation of The Partitioning Graph, Formulation of The HW/SW Partitioning Problem, Optimization, HW/SW Partitioning Based On Heuristic Scheduling, HW/SW Partitioning Based On Genetic Algorithms.
UNIT III HARDWARE/SOFTWARE CO-SYNTHESIS
The Co-Synthesis Problem, State-Transition Graph, Refinement and Controller Generation, Distributed System Co-Synthesis
UNIT IV PROTOTYPING AND EMULATION
Introduction, Prototyping and Emulation Techniques, Prototyping and Emulation Environments, Future Developments in Emulation and Prototyping, Target Architecture, Architecture Specialization Techniques, System Communication Infrastructure, Target Architectures and Application System Classes, Architectures for Control-Dominated Systems, Architectures for Data Dominated Systems, Mixed Systems and Less Specialized Systems.
UNIT V DESIGN SPECIFICATION AND VERIFICATION
Concurrency, Coordinating Concurrent Computations, Interfacing Components, Verification, Languages for System-Level Specification and Design System-Level Specification, Design Representation for System Level Synthesis, System Level Specification Languages, Heterogeneous Specification and Multi-Language Co-Simulation
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
At the end of this course, the students will be able to
CO1: Describe The Broad Range of System Architectures and Design Methodologies that currently exist and define their fundamental attributes.
CO2: Discuss the Dataflow Models as a State-of-the-Art Methodology to Solve Co-Design Problems and to Optimize the balance between Software and Hardware.
CO3: Understand in Translating between Software and Hardware Descriptions through Co-Design Methodologies.
CO4: Understand the State-of-The-Art practices in developing Co-Design Solutions to problems using modern Hardware/Software Tools for building prototypes.
CO5: Understand the Concurrent Specification from an Algorithm, Analyze its behavior and partition the Specification into Software (C Code) and Hardware (HDL) Components
REFERENCES
1. Patrick Schaumont, “A Practical Introduction to Hardware/Software Co-design”, Springer,2010.
2. Ralf Niemann, “Hardware/Software Co-Design for Data Flow Dominated Embedded Systems”, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 1998.
3. Jorgen Staunstrup, Wayne Wolf, “Hardware/Software Co-Design: Principles and Practice”, Kluwer Academic Publisher,1997.
4. Giovanni De Micheli, Rolf Ernst Morgon, “Reading in Hardware/Software Co-Design”, Kaufmann Publisher,2001.