Improve Your Vivado Design Suite Productivity

Who Should Attend?

Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of the VHDL or Verilog language
• Digital design experience
• FPGA Design with Vivado Design Suite: The Essentials

Skills gained

• Simulate, synthesize, and implement a design
• Identify advanced FPGA configurations, such as daisy chains and gangs, for configuring multiple FPGAs in a design
• Utilize Xilinx security features, bitstream encryption, and authentication using AES for design and IP security
• Use some of the more prominent design wizards
• Implement synchronous design techniques
• Use Xilinx FPGA power estimation tools throughout the design cycle
• Utilize floorplanning techniques to improve design performance
• Employ advanced implementation options, such as incremental compile flow, physical optimization techniques, and re-entrant mode as last mile strategies

Course Outline

• Behavioral Simulation - Describes the process of behavioral simulation and the simulation options available in the Vivado® IDE. {Lecture}
• Timing Simulation - Simulate the design post-implementation to verify that a design works properly on hardware. {Lecture, Lab}
• Vivado 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. {Lecture, Lab}
• Introduction to FPGA Configuration - Describes how FPGAs can be configured. {Lecture}
• Configuration Process - Understand the FPGA configuration process, such as device power up, CRC check, etc. {Lecture}
• Configuration Modes - Understand various configuration modes and select the suitable mode for a design. {Lecture}
• Bitstream Security - Understand the Xilinx bitstream security features such as readback disable, bitstream encryption, and authentication. {Lecture, Demo}
• Timing Constraints Wizard - Use the Timing Constraints Wizard to apply missing timing constraints in a design. {Lecture, Lab}
• Timing Constraints Editor - Introduces the timing constraints editor tool to create timing constraints. {Lecture}
• Synchronous Design Techniques - Introduces synchronous design techniques used in an FPGA design. {Lecture}
• Register Duplication - Use register duplication to reduce high fanout nets in a design. {Lecture}
• Pipelining - Use pipelining to improve design performance. {Lecture}
• Timing Summary Report - Use the post-implementation timing summary report to sign-off criteria for timing closure. {Lecture, Demo}
• Baselining - Use Xilinx-recommended baselining procedures to progressively meet timing closure. {Lecture, Demo}
• Xilinx Power Estimator Spreadsheet - Estimate the amount of resources and default activity rates for a design and evaluate the estimated power calculated by XPE. {Lecture, Lab}
• Power Analysis and Optimization Using the Vivado Design Suite - Use report power commands to estimate power consumption. {Lecture, Lab}
• Dynamic Power Estimation Using Vivado Report Power - Use an SAIF (switching activity interface format) file to determine accurate power consumption for a design. {Lecture}
• Power Management Techniques - Identify techniques used for low power design. {Lecture}
• Revision Control Systems in the Vivado Design Suite - Use version control systems with Vivado design flows. {Lecture, Lab}
• Hierarchical Design - Describe and analyze the hierarchical design methodologies supported by the Vivado Design Suite {Lecture}
• Floorplanning - How to utilize floorplanning techniques to improve design performance {Lecture}
• Physical Optimization - Employ physical optimization techniques to aid in timing closure {Lecture}
• Incremental Design - Investigate re-entrant mode as a last mile strategy {Lecture, Lab}

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