EE 6470-0

Brief

In this course, we study and implement a system with multiple cores and accelerators with ESL environments (SystemC/TLM). Students will also use High-Level Synthesis (HLS) to design and synthesize RTL circuits. All design will integrate with a RISC-V virtual platform (riscv-vp) for hardware and software co-design and analysis. Several examples will be used to demonstrate the ESL methodology including image processing, deep-learning neural networks to investigate efficiency of different system architectures.

Description

Course keywords: ESL, SystemC, TLM, HLS, DNN, Multi-core 一、課程說明(Course Description) In this course, we study and implement a system with multiple cores and accelerators with ESL environments (SystemC/TLM). We will use deep-learning neural networks as example applications to investigate efficiency of different system architectures. 二、指定用書(Text Books) 自編課程講義，請參考以下書目或網頁連結。 三、參考書籍(References) SystemC: from the ground up by David C. Black, 2010 TLM-2.0 Reference Manual https://github.com/agra-uni-bremen/riscv-vp Principles and Practices of Interconnection Networks, by William James Dally and Brian Towles, Morgan Kaufmann 2004. 四、教學方式(Teaching Method) Lecture and lab practice. 五、教學進度(Syllabus) 週次 授課內容 1 Introduction to ESL 2 SystemC 1 3 SystemC 2 4 SystemC 3 5 TLM 1 (point-to-point) 6 TLM 2 (interconnect) 7 High-level synthesis 1 8 High-level synthesis 2 9 High-level synthesis 3 10 Midterm Demo 11 RISC-V Introduction 12 RISC-V Virtual Platform 13 RISC-V VP Software Integration and Multi-core Platform 14 Network on Chip (NoC) Introduction 15 ESP Platform 16 Final Project Demo Lab 1 SystemC – Modules and Datatypes Lab 2 SystemC – Process, Event, and Channel Lab 3 TLM-2.0 Point-to-Point Connection Lab 4 TLM-2.0 Bus Lab 5 High-level Synthesis with Stratus Lab 6 Pipeline and Parallelism with Stratus Lab 7 RISC-V VP platform Lab 8 Multi-core RISC-V VP platform 六、成績考核(Evaluation) 1.Homework 60% 2.Midterm Demo 20% 3.Final Demo 20% 七、可連結之網頁位址 www1.ee.nthu.edu.tw/ee647000/

Timetable

Scores

Average Percentage 83

Std. Deviation 5.98

Remarks

16週課程

Restrictions

Compulsory

Elective

Cross Discipline

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