Advanced Processor Architecture and SoC Design - 5AMCE515

Goal(s)

The objective of this course is give to each student the minimal knowledge to design or choose a processor for a targeted application.
The students will learn the hardware architecture of a SOPC system and the associated software development to exploit the performance
of these systems.

This course is mainly divided into 2 parts. In the first one, the students will design a complex system composed of a
main processor and different peripherals linked by a bus using a Xilinx Zync 7000 chip. The second part deals with the NEON engine
located inside the main processor of the Zync 7000. This engine adds a new instruction set allowing to realize multiple operations
in parallel.

Content(s)

Introduction to System On Chip

• SOPC vs Embedded System
  • Hardware Software Partitionning
  • Processing Unit Choices (MCU vs DSP)
  • System on Programmable Chip Architectures
• SOPC Design Flow
• Application Design Using SOPC
  • Introduction to HLS
  • Embedded Software Optimization Using Dedicated Co-Processor

Introduction to NEON

• ARM Processors
  • Classification
  • Instruction Sets
  • ARM Assembly
• NEON Engine
  • Architecture
  • Assembly
  • Intrinsics
  • Automatic Vectorization

This course contains 2CM and 12TP and 1 Exam.

• Digital design
  • VHDL or Verilog
  • FPGA design
• Embedded software Programming
  • C
  • AssemblyLanguage
• Processor Architecture
  • RISC Architecture
  • ARM processor