IL2211 System-on-Chip Applications 7.5 credits

The course has a varying content being updated each year according to industrial development trends, but the selected topics will be focused on real applications of system-on-chip platform in industrial practice.

Example topics are:

• Advanced SoC enablers.
• Networks-on-a-chip.
• Single-chip radio.
• Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology.
• Ultra-wide band radio in CMOS.
• Mixed-signal design in SoC.
• Real SoC for set-top box.

This course aims to provide students a front-line view of system-on-chip (SoC) design and implementation through many application examples in industrial practice. Key technological trends and challenges in real SoC applications will be analyzed and how these challenges are solved will be demonstrated. Through these SoC application examples, students are expected to have a better understanding of basic theory and design methods gained in other VLSI and SoC design courses, to develop basic skills on how to use a divergence of SoC design knowledge in SoC design practice.

Basic courses in system-on-chip design or VLSI design

Assignments during the lectures.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

• INL1 - Assignments, 1.5 credits, grading scale: P, F
• PRO1 - Project, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
• TEN1 - Examination, 3.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

Assignment (ANN1; credits)
Project work (PRO1 ; 2 credits)
Examination (TEN1; 2 credits)

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Thesis work in system-on-chip design or electronic system design