Abstract: There is an enormous interest in developing customized, domain-specific systems-on-a-chip (SoC). Continued improvement in computing efficiency requires functional specialization of hardware designs. But designing complex chips is difficult, and therefore there is a large barrier to designing them in academic teaching or research environments. This talk presents the Chipyard framework, an integrated SoC design, simulation, and implementation environment for specialized compute systems, and its use for designing the chips in classes. Chipyard includes configurable, composable, open-source, generator-based IP blocks that can be used across multiple stages of the hardware development flow while maintaining design intent and integration consistency. We will present example designs of nine SoCs in advanced technologies, containing RISC-V processor cores with custom accelerators, memory system, interconnect and peripherals, each designed during one semester.
Presenter:
Professor Bora Nikolic, University of California, Berkeley
Co-Presenters:
BoraBot, Lucy Revina and Ethan Gao, University of California, Berkeley
Viansa Schmulbach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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