EECE570

Notices

• Welcome to all students who register this course.

Course Description

This course will provide an overview of the components of system on a chip (SOC) design from initial architectural choices to SOC implementation issues (e.g., performance, core selection, operating system requirements, on-chip communication networks, power management, package constraints, cost). Also covered are SoC design and implementation processes (e.g., functional integration, simulation, floor planning, clocking strategies, timing, design for test).

All course announcements, lecture slides, assignments, and papers to review will be made available at the course web page and Blackboard, please frequently check these sites and contact the instructor if there is any question.

Prerequisites: EECE 351 and 252 or equivalent.

Instructor

Prof. Zhanpeng Jin
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: zjin at binghamton dot edu (preferred)
Phone: 607-777-3363

Hours

• Lecture: Monday/Wednesday 6:15pm―7:40pm @ Science 2-337
• Office Hours: Wednesday 4:00pm―6:00pm @ ES-2306

Textbooks

• Wayne Wolf, Modern VLSI Design: IP-Based Design, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2008.
• Wayne Wolf, Modern VLSI Design: System-on-Chip Design, 3rd edition, Prentice Hall, 2002.
• Michael J. Flynn and Wayne Luk, Computer System Design: System-on-Chip, Wiley, 2011.

Quick Links

• Blackboard @ Binghamton.
• WWW Computer Architecture Page.
• Top 500 Supercomputer Sites.
• Timeline of Computing History.
• The Turing Archive for the History of Computing.
• The Modern History of Computing, by Copeland, B. Jack from Stanford.
• The History of Computing, by J. A. N. Lee from Virginia Tech.
• History of Computing, by Virginia Montecino from George Mason.