Study on curriculum design of system on chip

Besides application opportunities due to billions of transistors and GHz frequencies, the last ten years witnessed a major shift in the traditional design of VLSI to a more modem approach which is SoC. Universities are recently updating their digital design education offerings to include the recent SoC design approaches. This paper discusses curriculum design of SoC in universities. We suggest SoC courses should place extra emphasis on experiments. We compare our FPGA based SoPC experimental method with IMEC. This analysis would be helpful to construct a more reasonable SoC course under current available conditions.