System on Chip Architecture (Elective)
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The official GTU curriculum for System on Chip Architecture (Elective) (subject code 3725205) as prescribed for EAC( · Semester 2 divides the course into 4 units, covering 32 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3725205)Unit 1 SoC methodology
- Abstract system modeling – Introduction to Transaction Level Modeling(TLM)
- High Level Synthesis (HLS)
- Requirement analysis related to power
- performance and cost – Algorithms
- implementation constraints
- control and data path analysis
- interfacing requirements
- Integration and Verification
- Regression testing Part – I System on FPGA
Unit 2 Embedded hard and soft processor cores in FPGAs from Altera, Xilinx and
- Interfacing processor core with user FPGA logic
- IP cores and interface to processor bus, Booting methods
- configuration and parametric customization
- design environment
- base system builder
- hardware simulation flow
- supported OS and porting effort
- Processor bus bridging to support reusable IPs/peripherals
- Case study- AXI4 bus specification
- Memory organization – Internal and external memory controller design
- cross- compilers for HLL programming
- provision for custom instructions
- Auxiliary processing units
Unit 3 Xilinx Zynq family overview, system development methodology, use of the
- ARM processor features like Neon, MMU, floating point unit
- exception handling
- Developing AXI4 based peripheral using FPGA fabric Part – II System on Chip
Unit 4 Requirement analysis, Classification of SoC, Comparative study of
- different SoC platforms from TI, freescale
- ezchip and more etc…- Key features
- accelerator engines
- application domains like graphics, DSP, image processing
- audio-video encoding-decoding
- Power efficiency
- performance criteria