2B1459 System-on-Chip Applications (5CU/7.5ECTS) Course Number for Graduate Students (2B5476, 4CU)

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1 2B1459 System-on-Chip Applications (5CU/7.5ECTS) Course Number for Graduate Students (2B5476, 4CU) Course Coordinator: Dr. Li-Rong Zheng Laboratory of Electronics and Computer Systems Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Electrum 229, SE Stockholm, Sweden phone: KTH/LECS/ Li-Rong Zheng 1 Course Description: This advanced course has a varying contents being adapted each year to selected state of the art topics of System-on-Chip design. This is a seminar type of course with focus from different SoC topics. The course aims to provide students a front-line view of system-on-chip research, develop and applications; to prepare students for an advanced engineer career or Ph.D. studies in these fields. Intended students are: SoC master students New Ph.D. students in related area Industrial R & D Engineers in SoC KTH/LECS/ Li-Rong Zheng 2

2 What do we expect after the course? Can integrate all knowledge you have learnt from SoC program, and use these knowledge in a more sophisticated industry practice. Have a broad view on state-of-the-art SoC application and development: What is done, what is not solved, and what is the future trends. Others: Skills for a technique presentation Skills for writing a technique report KTH/LECS/ Li-Rong Zheng 3 History of the course 2002: Advanced Analog Circuits in SoC and Networks-on-a-Chip 2003: Networks-on-a-Chip (NoC Course in Collaboration with EU-ITS SoC-Mobinet) 2004: SoC Applications and Advanced SoC Enablers 2005: SoC Application and Advanced SoC Enablers 2006: SoC Application and Advanced SoC Enablers Experience from previous years: 1. Excellent topics/seminars, but teachers are too dynamic. 2. Also cost is high (guest teachers traveling, managment etc) 3. Difficult to grades, too many copied texts in project KTH requires new design of the course: 1. Fixed teachers and relative fixed contents 2. Focus on knowledge integration and SoC application 3. Reflect advances in industry practice 4. Upgrade to 5CU from 2006 (2B1458) KTH/LECS/ Li-Rong Zheng 4

3 Course Outline - Lectures Introduction to Course Lecture 1: SoC Trends and Advanced SoC Enablers (Li-Rong Zheng) Lecture 2: Challenges of Deep Submicron Effects in SoC Design (Li-Rong Zheng) Lecture 3: Mixed-Signal Design Challenges in SoC (Li-Rong Zheng) Lecture 4: Platform-Based SoC Design for NoC (Jian Liu) Lecture 5: RFID Technology and Wireless Sensors (Li-Rong Zheng) Lecture 6-7: Student Presentations (present by you!) Lecture 8-11: Advanced RF Design in Nanometer CMOS Given by Mats Carlsson, Catena Wireless Electronics AB KTH/LECS/ Li-Rong Zheng 5 Course Outline Student Presentations Student Presentations You are also the contributors/teachers to this course! Knowledge exchange, trainings on literature search, presentation skills, technique report Time 1: Lecture 6, April 24, 9-12, 531 (highly recommended date). Time 2: Lecture 7, April 26, 9-12, 531 (all should finish this date). 10 mins presentation ( 8 mins presentation, 1-2 min discussions) Flexible topic in SoC applications and advanced enablers Literature reading from IEEE Database (ISSCC, ASIC/SoC, DAC, DATE, ISCAS, ICCAD, CICC, and ESSCIRC; IEEE Trans. on VLSI, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Trans CAS etc.) Intensive reading ~10 most relevant papers in that topic. Extensive reading papers pages of slides: 1. Your name, title of your topic, 2. Motivation of the problem/topic, 6-8 pages on State-of-the-art of the topic, trends) KTH/LECS/ Li-Rong Zheng 6

4 Course Literature No Course Book. Only Seminars. Lecture Notes are Distributed by the Teachers Mostly will be available on Course Website; if not, hardcopies will be available if not available from web Literatures are from KTH Library: IEEE Xplore, Patent Database Course web: imit.kth.se/courses/2b1458 KTH/LECS/ Li-Rong Zheng 7 Course Format A series of seminars on different topics (lectures) Assignment of home reading Read relevant literatures and select a special topic Write a report on a selected focus (exam/project) Final Grades: Attend 70% of the first 10 lectures (weighted 30% in final grade) (First 10 Lectures, 70%=3, 80%=4, 90%=5) Note: If you cannot attend the lecture, you can compensate it by selecting the topic of your presentation or project in that missed lecture (i.e. you can maximally compensate two missed lectures, one by presentation, one by report). Presentation (20% in final grade), (Grade = average from 2-3 evaluators) Assignment HW (20% in Final Grade) (50%=3, 70%=4, 85%=5) Final report (30% in final grade). (Grade =average from 3 evaluators) Report to Ladok: ANN1 (Lecture), PRO1 (Presentation), TEN1 (HW + report), Slutbet KTH/LECS/ Li-Rong Zheng 8

5 Your Focused Topics for Presentation Could be anything in relation with SoC applications and SoC Enablers, for example: Technology scaling and its impact on on-chip communication network. NoC topologies and on chip communication Issues in NoC IP Protection Issues for IP-cores in SoC Design IP-reuse issues in SoC Design SoC bus and interface issues for IP cores Fault tolerance in SoC NoC operating systems A survey of embedded software in SoC Clock distribution challenges for future SoC Memory architecture and organization in SoC SoC Test Challenges, SoC Verification Challenges Platform-based design for SoC Network processor in NoC Single chip radio in SoC Low power issues in SoC design SoC versus SoP Nano-SoC.and propose your own topics/ideas related with important issues in SoC. KTH/LECS/ Li-Rong Zheng 9 About Final Report Topic: Basically the same topic as in your presentation (unless you have 2 missed-lectures, indicate). Each student should work on one topic. Format: Standard IEEE Conference format. Template will be available from course web site. (Abstract, Introduction, Main Contents, Summary, References) Length: 6-10 Pages. (Do not copy from others/literatures ) Deadline: June 1, 2007, 17:00. The black box outside LECS or (with 2B1459 report as subject). One submission only. Final Grading: It may take longer time than other examination. (Approximate 30 working days ) Criteria for Grading: Interest of the topic, well structures report, good overview with enough references, reasonable predictions and trends analysis, clear summary or conclusion, good quality of figures/pictures, sound grammar/english. KTH/LECS/ Li-Rong Zheng 10

6 Other Information Course Coordinator: Dr. Li-Rong Zheng ( Tel: ) Administrator: Gunnar Johansson Tel Assistants: Jian Liu Course web page (for updated information) KTH/LECS/ Li-Rong Zheng 11