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FILENUMBER: 1249 BEGIN_KEYWORDS System-on-Chip Design Course at MIT END_KEYWORDS DATE: February 2006 TITLE: System-on-Chip Design Course at MIT
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TITLE: System-on-Chip Design Course at MIT

Professors Arvind and Asanovic of MIT offer a graduate course  on
SoC  design  that  is  intended  to  teach  new methodologies for
designing multi-million-gate CMOS  VLSI  chips  using  high-level
synthesis   tools   in   conjunction   with  standard  commercial
electronic design automation tools.  The emphasis is  on  modular
and    robust   designs,   reusable   modules,   correctness   by
construction, architectural exploration, and  meeting  the  area,
timing,  and  power  constraints  within  standard  cell and FPGA
frameworks.  The course relies heavily on the use  of  electronic
system   level   synthesis   software   developed   by   Bluespec.

Course materials are freely accessible to anyone via the OpenCourseWare
project.  Educators, self-learners, and students around the world
may  access the material for the  SoC course (EECS 6.884)  or for 
more than 1000 other courses for self-study.

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