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UltraFast Design Methodology | Los Angeles & Online

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$1,590.00

Course Description

This course describes the FPGA design best practices and skills to be successful using the Vivado® Design Suite. This includes the necessary skills to improve design speed and reliability, including: system reset design, synchronization circuits, optimum HDL coding techniques, and timing closure techniques using the Vivado software. This course encapsulates this information with an UltraFast™ design methodology case study. The UltraFast design methodology checklist is also introduced.

 

 

Course Specification

Day 1

  • UltraFast Design Methodology: Introduction {Lecture, Demo}
  • UltraFast Design Methodology: Board and Device Planning {Lecture}
  • Vivado Design Suite I/O Pin Planning {Lecture, Lab}
  • Xilinx Power Estimator Spreadsheet {Lecture, Lab}
  • Introduction to FPGA Configuration {Lecture}
  • UltraFast Design Methodology: Design Creation {Lecture}
  • HDL Coding Techniques {Lecture}
  • Resets {Lecture, Lab}
  • Register Duplication {Lecture}
  • Pipelining {Lecture, Lab}
  • Synchronous Design Techniques {Lecture}
  • Creating and Packaging Custom IP {Lecture}
  • Day 2

    • Designing with the IP Integrator {Lecture, Lab}
    • Revision Control Systems in the Vivado Design Suite {Lecture}
    • UltraFast Design Methodology: Implementation {Lecture}
    • Synthesis and Implementation {Lecture}
    • Incremental Compile Flow {Lecture}
    • UltraFast Design Methodology: Design Closure {Lecture}
    • Introduction to Vivado Reports {Lecture, Demo}
    • Baselining {Lecture, Lab}
    • Introduction to Timing Exceptions {Lecture, Demo}
    • Synchronization Circuits {Lecture}
    • Introduction to Floorplanning {Lecture}
    • Congestion {Lecture}
    • Physical Optimization {Lecture, Lab}
    • Power Management Techniques {Lecture}
    • Vivado Design Suite Debug Methodology {Lecture}
  • Topic Descriptions

    Day 1

    • UltraFast Design Methodology: Introduction – Introduces the UltraFast Design Methodology and the UltraFast Design Methodology checklist.
    • UltraFast Design Methodology: Board and Device Planning – Introduces the methodology guidelines on board and device planning.
    • Vivado Design Suite I/O Pin Planning – Use the I/O Pin Planning layout to perform pin assignments in a design.
    • Xilinx Power Estimator Spreadsheet – Estimate the amount of resources and default activity rates for a design and evaluate the estimated power calculated by XPE.
    • Introduction to FPGA Configuration – Describes how FPGAs can be configured.
    • UltraFast Design Methodology: Design Creation - Introduces the UltraFast methodology guidelines on design creation.
    • HDL Coding Techniques – Covers basic digital coding guidelines used in an FPGA design.
    • Resets – Investigates the impact of using asynchronous resets in a design.
    • Register Duplication – Use register duplication to reduce high fanout nets in a design.
    • Pipelining - Use pipelining to improve design performance.
    • Synchronous Design Techniques – Introduces synchronous design techniques used in an FPGA design.
    • Creating and Packaging Custom IP – Create your own IP and package and include it in the Vivado IP catalog.

    Day 2

    • Designing with the IP Integrator – Use the Vivado IP integrator to create the uart_led subsystem.
    • Revision Control Systems in the Vivado Design Suite – Use version control systems with Vivado design flows.
    • UltraFast Design Methodology: Implementation - Introduces the methodology guidelines on implementation.
    • Synthesis and Implementation – Create timing constraints according to the design scenario and synthesize and implement the design. Optionally, generate and download the bitstream to the demo board.
    • Incremental Compile Flow – Utilize the incremental compile flow when making last-minute RTL changes.
    • UltraFast Design Methodology: Design Closure - Introduces the UltraFast methodology guidelines on design closure.
    • Introduction to Vivado Reports – Generate and use Vivado reports to analyze failed paths.
    • Baselining – Use Xilinx-recommended baselining procedures to progressively meet timing closure.
    • Introduction to Timing Exceptions – Introduces timing exception constraints and applying them to fine tune design timing.
    • Synchronization Circuits – Use synchronization circuits for clock domain crossings.
    • Introduction to Floorplanning – Introduction to floorplanning and how to use Pblocks while floorplanning.
    • Congestion - Identifies congestion and addresses congestion issues.
    • Physical Optimization – Use physical optimization techniques for timing closure.
    • Power Management Techniques – Identify techniques used for low power design.
    • Vivado Design Suite Debug Methodology – Understand and follow the debug core recommendations. Employ the debug methodology for debugging a design using the Vivado logic analyzer.
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