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Detailed program first emisemester:
Introduction
The hardware design flow. Levels of Design Abstractions. The FSM-Datapath model.
Synthesis of digital systems
Advanced logic synthesis techniques: Retiming and Resynthesis.
Timing analysis and optimization, X-value simulation, sat-based analysis.
High-level synthesis. Data flow and control flow graph construction. Datapath and controller architectures.
The Scheduling and allocation problems: algorithms and constraints.
Register allocation, Multi-cycling, Chaining, Pipelining.
Synthesis of complex operator: array accesses and pointers arithmetic.
Application and platform modeling
High-level languages (SystemC, timing diagrams, …).
The co-simulation problem. A practical example of co-simulation applied to the high-level synthesis design flow.
Example of platform modeling: modeling a Wishbone based platform.
RTL IP modeling in VHDL/Verilog (memory units, pipelined units, etc) targeting FPGA technologies.
Examples of design flows: ASIC vs FPGA design flow.
Detailed program second emisemester:
Testing of digital systems
Faults models and level of design abstractions. Testing at logic, functional and behavioral level of abstraction. Fault simulation algorithms. Automatic test pattern generation algorithms. Analysis and Design for Testability.
Verification of digital systems
Simulation based verification. Automatic test bench generation.
Equivalence checking. Tools for verification: Binary Decision Diagrams (BDD), Boolean Satisfiability applied to the verification problem.
Specifications and modeling at system level
Introduction to the system level modeling
Level of modeling abstractions
Models of computation and communication
Co-exploration methodologies
Performance estimation for heterogeneous systems
Design solutions and models: Pareto analysis
Multi-objective design exploration algorithms.
Co-synthesis methodologies
Partitioning, allocation, mapping and scheduling.
Communication mapping and HW/SW interface synthesis.
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