SoC design has seen significant advances in the decade and Arm-based silicon has often been at the heart of this revolution. Today, entire systems including processors, memories, sensors and analogue circuitry are all integrated into one single chip (hence "System-on-Chip" or SoC). The aim of this textbook is to expose aspiring and practising SoC designers to the fundamentals and latest developments in SoC design and technologies using examples of Arm� Cortex�-A technology and related IP blocks and interfaces. The entire SoC design process is discussed in detail, from memory and interconnects through to validation, fabrication and production. A particular highlight of this textbook is the focus on energy efficient SoC design, and the extensive supplementary materials which include a SystemC model of a Zynq chip.

This textbook is aimed at final year undergraduate students, master students or engineers in the field looking to update their knowledge. It is assumed that readers will have a pre-existing understanding of RTL, Assembly Language and Operating Systems. For those readers looking for a entry-level introduction to SoC design, we recommend our Fundamentals of System-on-Chip Design on Arm Cortex-M Microcontrollers textbook.

About the Author

Dr. David J. Greaves, PhD CEng. is a Senior Lecturer in Computing Science at the University of Cambridge, UK and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.In 1995, Dr Greaves implemented CSYN, one of the first Verilog compilers for synthesising hardware specifically for field programmable gate arrays. This compiler was distributed widely among local companies on the Cambridge Science Park and also used for undergraduate teaching. It was licensed to a multinational to bundle with its own family of FPGAs.Dr Greaves holds at least five international patents in the field of communications and electronics. His current research interests remain in the field of compilation tools for design automation and scientific acceleration.

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