Designing FPGAs Using the Vivado Design Suite 1

Course Description

This course offers introductory training on the Vivado® Design Suite and helps you to understand the FPGA design flow.

For those uninitiated to FPGA design, this course helps in designing an FPGA design,.create an FPGA designwhich includes creating a Vivado Design Suite project with source files,.simulating the design, performing pin assignments, applying basic timing constraints, synthesizing,.implementing, and debugging the design. Finally, the process for generating and downloading bitstream on a demo board is also covered.

Release

May 2017

Level

FPGA 1

Course Duration

2 days

Audience

Digital designers new to FPGA design who need to learn the FPGA design.cycle and the major aspects of the Vivado Design Suite

Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of the VHDL or Verilog language
• Digital design knowledge

Recommended Recorded Videos

• Basic FPGA Architecture: Slice and I/O Resources
• Basic FPGA Architecture: Memory and Clocking Resources

Software Tools

• Vivado System Edition 2017.1

Hardware

• Architecture: UltraScale™ and 7 series FPGAs*
• Demo board (optional): Kintex® UltraScale FPGA KCU105 board or Kintex-7 FPGA KC705 board*

* This course focuses on the UltraScale and 7 series architectures. Check with your local Authorized Training Provider for the specifics of the in-class lab board or other customizations.

Skills Gained

After completing this comprehensive training, you will have the necessary skills to:

• Use the New Project Wizard to create a new Vivado IDE project
• Describe the supported design flows of the Vivado IDE
• Generate a DRC report to detect and fix design issues early in the flow
• Use the Vivado IDE I/O Planning layout to perform pin assignments
• Explore synthesis and implementation options and directives
• Synthesize and implement the HDL design
• Apply clock and I/O timing constraints and perform timing analysis
• Describe the “baselining” process to gain timing closure on a design
• Use the Schematic and Hierarchy viewers to analyze and cross-probe a design
• Use the Vivado logic analyzer and debug flows to debug a design

Course Outline

Day 1

• Intro to FPGA Architecture, 3D IC, SoC {Lecture}
• UltraFast Design Methodology Introduction 1 {Lecture}
• Introduction to the Vivado Design Flows {Lecture}
• Vivado Design Suite Project-Based Flow {Lecture, Lab}
• Introduction to Digital Coding Guidelines {Lecture}
• Synthesis and Implementation {Lecture, Lab}
• Vivado Design Rule Checks {Lab}
• Timing Constraint Wizard {Lecture, Lab}
• Timing Constraint Editor {Lecture}
• Report Clocks Networks {Lecture, Demo}
• Intro to Clock Constraints {Lecture, Lab, Demo}
• Vivado Design Suite I/O Pin Planning {Lecture, Lab}
• I/O Constraints and Virtual Clocks {Lecture, Lab

Day 2

• Basic Design Analysis in the Vivado IDE {Lecture, Lab}
• Setup and Hold timing analysis {Lecture, Demo}
• Introduction to Vivado Timing Reports {Lecture, Lab}
• Vivado IP Flow {Lecture, Lab, Demo}
• Xilinx Power Estimator Spreadsheet {Lecture, Lab}
• Introduction to the Vivado Logic Analyzer {Lecture}
• HDL Instantiation Flow {Lecture, Lab}
• Introduction to Triggering {Lecture}
• Netlist Insertion Flow {Lecture, Lab}
• Debug Hub (dbg_hub) Core {Lecture}
• Intro to Tcl {Lecture}
• Using Tcl Commands in a Vivado Design Suite Project Flow {Lecture, Lab}
• Tcl Syntax and Structure {Lecture}

Topic Descriptions

Day 1

• Intro to FPGA Architecture, 3D IC, SoC – Overview of FPGA architecture, SSI technology, and SoC device architecture.
• UltraFast Design Methodology Introduction 1 – Introduces the methodology guidelines covered in this course.
• Introduction to the Vivado Design Flows – Introduces the Vivado design flows: the project flow and non-project batch flow.
• Vivado Design Suite Project-Based Flow.– Create a project, add files to the project, explore the Vivado IDE, and simulate the design.
• Introduction to Digital Coding Guidelines – Covers basic digital coding guidelines used in an FPGA design.
• Synthesis and Implementation – Make timing constraints according to the design scenario and synthesize and implement the design. Optionally, generate and download the bitstream to the demo board.
• Vivado Design Rule Checks – Run a DRC report on the elaborated design to detect design issues early in the flow. Fix the DRC violations.
• Timing Constraint Wizard – Use the Timing Constraint Wizard to apply missing timing constraints in a design.
• Timing Constraint Editor – Introduces the timing constraints editor tool to create timing constraints.
• Report Clocks Networks – Use report clock networks to view the primary and generated clocks in a design.
• Introduction to Clock Constraints – Apply clock constraints and perform timing analysis.
• Vivado Design Suite I/O Pin Planning – Use the I/O Pin Planning layout to perform pin assignments in a design.
• I/O Constraints and Virtual Clocks – Apply I/O constraints and perform timing analysis.

Day 2

• Basic Design Analysis in the Vivado IDE – Use the various design analysis features in the Vivado Design Suite.
• Setup and Hold Timing Analysis – Understand setup and hold timing analysis.
• Introduction to Vivado Timing Reports – Generate and use Vivado timing reports to analyze failed timing paths.
• Vivado IP Flow – How to customize IP, instantiate IP, and verify the hierarchy of your design IP.
• 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 the Vivado Logic Analyzer – Overview of the Vivado logic analyzer for debugging a design.
• HDL Instantiation Flow. – Covers the HDL instantiation flow to create and instantiate a VIO core and.observe its behavior using the Vivado logic analyzer.
• Introduction to Triggering. – Introduces the trigger capabilities of the Vivado logic analyzer.
• Netlist Insertion Flow. – Use the Netlist Insertion flow to insert ILA cores into an existing synthesized netlist and debug a common problem.
• Debug Hub (dbg_hub) Core – Understand how the debug hub core is used to connect debug cores in a design.
• Introduction to Tcl – Introduces Tcl (tool command language).
• Using Tcl Commands in a Vivado Design Suite Project Flow.– Explains what Tcl commands are executed in a Vivado Design Suite project flow.
• Tcl Syntax and Structure – Understand the Tcl syntax and structure.