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TKT-2431 SoC-suunnittelu
and TKT-2437 SoC design
exam Mon 12.12.2011
Created by Erno Salminen
D. You may use any calculator
You may do whatever you wish to the exam paper

Please answer in Finnish if possible.

In addition to text, please use eguations, figures, and tables. Moreover, give
examples in your answers.

Remember to highlight the differences between compared methods/things, and
tell when one should use each of them.

Don't expect that the reader is psychic, please explain things carefully.

About the exercise (älp)

a) What 2 properties/changes affected the performance most?

b) Describe their trade-offs (e.g. performance increase vs. design effort vs.
HW area etc.)

c) Exercises used special DCT/guantization HW unit. Which of the 3 basic IP

component types best describes it? Why?
Explain the following (ä 2p)

a) Amdahl's law

b) The concept of power state machine.

c) Bisection bandwidth of a communication network
d) Mixed-level simulation

e) ASIP

n Network topology
System-on-Chip is usually divided into domains (aka. logic islands). Explain the
properties and purposes of the 3 main domain types and how do they affect
verification and testing? (3p)
Explain the following (ä 4p)

a) The main idea of platform-based design.

b) Data-parallel vs. function-parallel processing
Rate yourself. |t is important to recognize one's own capabilities in oder to make
project schedules and specifications etc. Therefore, the last task is to estimate
how many points you'll get in guestions 1a-4b. Textual analysis is also
appreciated in addition to accuracy.(4p)