Advanced System-on-Chip Design Lecture Notes

Here are the lecture topics [1] more in-depth:

  1 Basic Processor & Memory hierarchy
  2 Advanced Out-of-Order Processor
  3 Data-parallel processors
  4 Micro-controller introduction
  5 Multicore
  6 RISC-V core 
  7 Advanced Multicore
  8 Multicore programming 
  9 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
  10 Heterogeneous SoC
  11 GPU Programming 
  12 Application-Specific Instruction-Set Processor (ASIP) 
  13 PULP: Parallel Ultra-Low-Power Computing 
  14 Architecture in the Future - Wrap-up

[1] https://iis-people.ee.ethz.ch/~gmichi/asocd/classinfo/ASoCD_...

Catch em all:

> wget -m -p -E -k -K -np https://iis-people.ee.ethz.ch/\~gmichi/

The lecturers are from the same team developing Low Level Hardware Description (LLHD) language:

https://github.com/fabianschuiki/llhd

p/s: It seems that Lecture 7 slide is missing, though.

If you want a great introduction to, and appreciation of, SoCs — given the announcements yesterday and to understand what goes into something like the M1 a little better.

That's a very good lectures!

However, there is one thing is regrettable to me in lectures that talks about the micro-architecture of superscalar processors: they never talk about the register bank micro-architecture. The focus is always on the micro-architecture of the compute units.

Knowing that the wire area of a conventional register bank grows by the square of the number of read/write ports, and that superscalar processors require an increasing number of read/write ports, the micro-architecture of the register bank quickly becomes critical with the number of issue.

But there is very little information on the right micro-architectural strategy in this regard. There is some information on GPU register banks, but very little about modern CPU designs.

Does anyone have courseware on non-advanced System-on-Chip design?

Slides are from 2016 -- perhaps put that in the title.

Videos for this course?