Designing FPGAs Using the Vivado Design Suite 3

• Demonstrating timing closure techniques such as baselining, pipelining, and synchronization circuits
• Showing optimum HDL coding techniques that help with design timing closure
• Illustrating the advanced capabilities of the Vivado® logic analyzer to debug a design.

Who Should Attend?

Prerequisites

• Intermediate HDL knowledge (VHDL or Verilog)
• Solid digital design background
• Designing FPGAs Using the Vivado Design Suite 1 course (recommended)
• Designing FPGAs Using the Vivado Design Suite 2 course(recommended)

Skills gained

• Employ good alternative design practices to improve design reliability
• Define a properly constrained design
• Apply baseline constraints to determine if internal timing paths meet design timing objectives
• Optimize HDL code to maximize the FPGA resources that are inferred and meet performance goals
• Build a more reliable design that is less vulnerable to metastability problems and requires less design debugging later in the development cycle
• Increase performance by utilizing FPGA design techniques
• Use Vivado Design Suite reports and utilities to full advantage, especially the Clock Interaction report
• Describe how to enable remote debug

Course Outline

• UltraFast Design Methodology (UFDM)
• UltraFast Design Methodology: Implementation – Introduces the methodology guidelines covered in this course.{Lecture}
• Vivado Tool Flow
• Vivado Design Suite Non-Project Mode – Create a design in the Vivado Design Suite non-project mode. {Lecture}
• Simulation
• Timing Simulation – Simulate the design post-implementation to verify that a design works properly on hardware. {Lecture, Lab}
• Design Techniques
• Baselining – Use Xilinx-recommended baselining procedures to progressively meet timing closure. {Lecture, Demo, Lab}
• Pipelining – Use pipelining to improve design performance. {Lecture, Lab}
• Inference – Infer Xilinx dedicated hardware resources by writing appropriate HDL code.{Lecture, Lab}
• Sampling and Capturing Data in Multiple Clock Domains - Overview of debugging a design with multiple clock domains that require multiple ILAs. {Lecture, Lab}
• Synchronization Circuits – Use synchronization circuits for clock domain crossings. {Lecture, Lab, Case Study}
• Design Analysis
• Report Clock Interaction – Use the clock interaction report to identify interactions between clock domains. {Lecture, Demo}
• Report Datasheet – Use the datasheet report to find the optimal setup and hold margin for an I/O interface. {Lecture, Demo}
• Report QoR – Use the QoR Assessment and QoR Suggestions reports to analyze the timing for a design.{Lecture}
• Version Control System
• Revision Control Systems in the Vivado Design Suite Use version control systems with Vivado design flows. {Lecture, Lab}
• Power
• Dynamic Power Estimation Using Vivado Report Power – Use an SAIF (switching activity interface format) file to determine accurate power consumption for a design. {Lecture, Lab}
• Versal_ACAP: Power and Thermal Solutions - Discusses the power domains in the Versal ACAP as well as power optimization and analysis techniques. Thermal design challenges are also covered. {Lecture}
• Configuration
• Configuration Modes – Understand various configuration modes and select the suitable mode for a design. {Lecture}
• Debugging
• Netlist Insertion Debug Probing Flow - Covers the netlist insertion flow of the debug using the Vivado logic analyzer.{Lecture, Lab}
• JTAG to AXI Master Core – Use this debug core to write/read data to/from a peripheral connected to an AXI interface in a system that is running in hardware. {Lecture, Demo}
• Debug Flow in an IP Integrator Block Design – Insert the debug cores into IP integrator block designs. {Lecture, Lab}
• Remote Debugging Using the Vivado Logic Analyzer – Use the Vivado logic analyzer to configure an FPGA, set up triggering, and view the sampled data from a remote location. {Lecture, Lab}
• Tcl Commands
• Manipulating Design Properties Using Tcl – Query your design and make pin assignments by using various Tcl commands.{Lecture, Lab}