UltraFast Design Metholology

UltraFast Design Methodology

FPGA-VDM

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
What's New for 2020.1
▪ Vivado Design Suite I/O Pin Planning: Information on simultaneous switching noise (SSN) predictor tool
▪ UltraFast Design Methodology – Design Creation: Auto-pipelining considerations
▪ Designing with IP Integrator: Additional description of IPI features
▪ Timing Closure Using Physical Optimization Techniques: Clarification on PhysOpt option enablement

 

Level: FPGA 3 
Course Duration: 2 day
Price: $1600 or 16 Xilinx Training Credits
Course Part Number: FPGA-VDM
Who Should Attend?:Engineers who seek training for FPGA design best practices that increase design performance and increase development productivity.
Registration: Register online in our secure store

Prerequisites

Basic HDL knowledge (VHDL or Verilog)
▪ Digital design knowledge and experience
▪ Vivado Design Suite experience or completion of either:
○ Designing FPGAs Using the Vivado Design Suite 1 course and
○ Designing FPGAs Using the Vivado Design Suite 2 course and
○ Designing FPGAs Using the Vivado Design Suite 3 course or
○ Vivado Design Suite Advanced XDC and Static Timing Analysis
for ISE Software Users course

Software Tools

• Vivado Design or System Edition 2020.1

Hardware

• Architecture: UltraScale and 7 series FPGAs*
• Demo board: None

*This course focuses on the 7 series FPGA architectures. Contact us for the specifics of the in-class lab board or other customizations.

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

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: 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}
▪ Vivado Design Suite I/O Pin Planning
Use the I/O Pin Planning layout to perform pin assignments in a design. {Lecture, Lab}
▪ 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}
▪ Introduction to FPGA Configuration
Describes how FPGAs can be configured. {Lecture}
▪ UltraFast Design Methodology: Design Creation
Introduces the UltraFast methodology guidelines on design creation. {Lecture}
▪ HDL Coding Techniques
Covers basic digital coding guidelines used in an FPGA design. {Lecture}
▪ 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}
▪ Creating and Packaging Custom IP
Create your own IP and package and include it in the Vivado IP catalog. {Lecture}

Day 2

▪ Designing with the IP Integrator
Use the Vivado IP integrator to create the uart_led subsystem. {Lecture, Lab}
▪ Revision Control Systems in the Vivado Design Suite
Use version control systems with Vivado design flows. {Lecture}
▪ UltraFast Design Methodology: Implementation
Introduces the methodology guidelines on implementation. {Lecture}
▪ 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} Incremental Compile Flow Utilize the incremental compile flow when making last-minute RTL changes. {Lecture}
▪ UltraFast Design Methodology: Design Closure
Introduces the UltraFast methodology guidelines on design closure. {Lecture}
▪ Introduction to Vivado Reports
Generate and use Vivado reports to analyze failed paths. {Lecture, Demo}
▪ Baselining
Use Xilinx-recommended baselining procedures to progressively meet timing closure. {Lecture, Lab}
▪ Introduction to Timing Exceptions
Introduces timing exception constraints and applying them to fine tune design timing. {Lecture, Demo, Lab}
▪ Synchronization Circuits
Use synchronization circuits for clock domain crossings. {Lecture}
▪ Introduction to Floorplanning
Introduction to floorplanning and how to use Pblocks while floorplanning. {Lecture}
▪ Congestion
Identifies congestion and addresses congestion issues. {Lecture}
▪ Timing Closure Using Physical Optimization Techniques
Use physical optimization techniques for timing closure. {Lecture}
▪ Power Management Techniques
Identify techniques used for low power design. {Lecture}
▪ 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}

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