SoC 101 - Lecture 1a: Introduction and Motivation

System-on-Chip 101
or
"Everything you wanted to know about a computer but were afraid to ask"

This is Lecture 1 of my "SoC 101" course at Bar-Ilan University. In this course, I provide an overview of computer hardware engineering and SoC design, covering the full stack from the basic terminology, through computer architecture, and up to low-level software and design methodologies. The purpose of this course is to methodologically tell you about all those things that you may not have heard during your engineering studies and "fill the gaps" between the parts that you learned in-depth. It is in no way intended to provide a full, detailed description of every concept introduced, but following the course will give you a good idea about how a computer or any embedded system actually works.

Lecture 1 covers the motivation for the course and an introduction to MPUs, MCUs, SoCs and basic embedded system components.

Lecture slides can be found on the EnICS Labs web site at:
https://enicslabs.com/academic-course...

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Prof. Adam Teman
Emerging nanoscaled Integrated Circuits and Systems (EnICS) Labs
Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University