UltraFast Design Methodology
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Course Description
Learn how to improve design speed and reliability by using the UltraFast Design Methodology and the Vivado® Design Suite.
The focus is on:
- Optimizing system reset design and synchronization circuits
- Employing best practice HDL coding techniques
- Applying appropriate timing closure techniques
- Reviewing an UltraFast Design Methodology case study
Level
FPGA 3
Training Duration
2 days
Audience
Engineers who seek training for FPGA design best practices that increase design performance and increase development productivity.
Prerequisites
- Basic HDL knowledge (VHDL or Verilog)
- Digital design knowledge and experience
Software Tools
- Vivado Design Suite 2022.1
Hardware
- Architecture: UltraScale™ and 7 series FPGAs*
Demo board: None*
* This course focuses on the UltraScale and 7 series architectures. Check with your local Authorized Training Provider for specifics or other customizations.
Skills Gained
After completing this comprehensive training, you will have the necessary skills to:
- Describe the UltraFast™ design methodology checklist
- Identify key areas to optimize your design to meet your design goals and performance objectives
- Define a properly constrained design
- Optimize HDL code to maximize the FPGA resources that are inferred and meet your performance goals
- Build resets into your system for optimum reliability and design speed
- Build a more reliable design that is less vulnerable to metastability problems and requires less design debugging later in the development cycle
- Identify timing closure techniques using the Vivado Design Suite
- Describe how the UltraFast design methodology techniques work effectively through case studies and lab experience
Course Outline
Day 1
UltraFast Design Methodology
- UltraFast Design Methodology: Introduction – Introduces the UltraFast Design Methodology and the UltraFast Design Methodology checklist. {Lecture, Demo}
- UltraFast Design Methodology: Board and Device Planning – Introduces the methodology guidelines on board and device planning. {Lecture}
- UltraFast Design Methodology: Design Creation – Introduces the UltraFast methodology guidelines on design creation. {Lecture}
- UltraFast Design Methodology: Implementation – Introduces the methodology guidelines on implementation. {Lecture}
- Introduction to UltraFast Design Methodology: Design Closure – Introduces the UltraFast methodology guidelines on design closure. {Lecture}
HDL Techniques
- HDL Coding Techniques – Covers basic digital coding guidelines used in an FPGA design. {Lecture}
Vivado Tool Flow
- Incremental Compile Flow – Utilize the incremental compile flow when making last-minute RTL changes. {Lecture}
Design Techniques
- Resets – Investigates the impact of using asynchronous resets in a design. {Lecture, Lab}
- Register Duplication – Use register duplication to reduce high fanout nets in a design. {Lecture}
- Pipelining – Use pipelining to improve design performance. {Lecture, Lab}
- Synchronous Design Techniques – Introduces synchronous design techniques used in an FPGA design. {Lecture}
- Baselining – Use Xilinx-recommended baselining procedures to progressively meet timing closure. {Lecture, Lab}
- Clock Domain Crossing and Synchronization Circuits Use synchronization circuits for clock domain crossings. {Lecture}
- Improving Clock Skew Describes how to apply various techniques to improve clock skew. {Lecture}
- Improving Clock Uncertainty Reviews various flows for improving clock uncertainty, including using parallel BUFGCE_DIV clock buffers, changing MMCM or PLL settings, and limiting synchronous clock domain crossing (CDC) paths. {Lecture, Lab}
Day 2
Design Analysis
- Introduction to Vivado Reports Generate and use Vivado reports to analyze failed paths. {Lecture, Demo}
- QoR Reports Overview Describes what quality of result (QoR) is and how to analyze the QoR reports generated by the Vivado IDE. {Lecture}
Version Control Systems
- Revision Control Systems in the Vivado Design Suite – Use version control systems with Vivado design flows. {Lecture}
Power
- 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 Management Techniques Identify techniques used for low power design. {Lecture}
Synthesis and Implementation
- 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}
Vivado IP Catalog
- Creating and Packaging Custom IP – Create your own IP and package and include it in the Vivado IP catalog. {Lecture}
- Designing with the IP Integrator – Use the Vivado IP integrator to create the uart_led subsystem. {Lecture, Lab}
Pin Planning
- Vivado Design Suite I/O Pin Planning – Use the I/O Pin Planning layout to perform pin assignments in a design. {Lecture, Lab}
Timing
- Introduction to Timing Exceptions – Introduces timing exception constraints and applying them to fine tune design timing. {Lecture, Demo}
- Timing Closure Using Physical Optimization Techniques – Use physical optimization techniques for timing closure. {Lecture, Lab}
- Reducing Logic Delay Describes how to optimize regular fabric paths and paths with dedicated blocks and macro primitives. {Lecture}
- Reducing Net Delay Reviews different techniques to reduce congestion and net delay. {Lecture}
Floorplanning
- Introduction to Floorplanning – Introduction to floorplanning and how to use Pblocks while floorplanning. {Lecture}
- Congestion – Identifies congestion and addresses congestion issues. {Lecture}
Configuration
- Introduction to FPGA Configuration – Describes how FPGAs can be configured. {Lecture}
Debugging
- 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. {Lecture}
Datum
24 oktober 2022 - 25 oktober 2022
Locatie
Core|Vision
Cereslaan 24
5384 VT
Heesch
Prijs
€ 0,00
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20 Xilinx Training Credits
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