Vivado FPGA Design Essentials

Hardware developers who are relatively new to AMD tools and technology and who still require high level QoR, and individual productivity.

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

Essential Tcl for Vivado (online) teaches the essentials of the Tcl language with particular focus on its application within the AMD Vivado™ Design Suite. It can be taken independently either before or after Vivado Adopter training as convenient (subject to availability).

• Vivado Design Suite

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

• Create projects in Vivado DS
• Optimize synthesis and implementation
• Using graphical analysis tools within Vivado DS
• Fully and properly constrain design for STA
• Incorporate, generate and re-use IP cores
• Understand key Vivado reports for design analysis
• Insert debug cores as necessary
• Configure FPGA under different scenarios
• Describe the AMD FPGA front-to-back design flow

AMD Device Architectures

• Introduction to FPGA Architecture, 3D ICs, SoCs, ACAPs
  Overview of FPGA architecture, SSI technology, etc.

 

HDL Techniques

• HDL Coding Techniques
  Covers basic digital coding guidelines used in an FPGA design.

 

Vivado Tool Flow

• Introduction to Vivado Design Flows
  Introduces the Vivado design flows: the project flow and non-project batch flow.
• Vivado Design Suite Project-based Flow
  Introduces the project-based flow in the Vivado Design Suite: creating a project, adding files to the project, exploring the Vivado IDE, and simulating the design.

 

Design Analysis

• Introduction to Vivado Reports
  Generate Vivado timing reports to analyze failed timing paths.

 

Power

• AMD Power Estimator Spreadsheet
  Estimate the amount of resources and default activity rates for a design and evaluate the estimated power calculated by XPE.

 

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.

 

Pin Planning

• Vivado Design Suite I/O Pin Planning
  Use the I/O Pin Planning layout to perform pin assignments.

 

• Using Tcl Commands in the Vivado DS Project Flow
  Explains what Tcl commands are executed in a Vivado Design Suite project flow.

 

Timing – Basics & Intermediate

• Introduction to Clock Constraints
  Apply clock constraints and perform timing analysis.
• Generated Clocks
  

  Use the report clock networks report to determine if there are any generated clocks in a design.

• I/O Constraints and Virtual Clocks
  Apply I/O constraints and perform timing analysis.

• Setup and Hold Violation Analysis
  Covers what setup and hold slack are and describes how to perform input/output setup and hold analysis.

  • Clock Group Constraints

  Apply clock group constraints for asynchronous clock domains.

  • Introduction to Timing Exceptions

  Introduces timing exception constraints and applying them to fine tune design timing.

  • Timing Constraints Wizard

  Use the Timing Constraints Wizard to apply missing timing constraints in a design.

  • Timing Constraints Editor

  Introduces the timing constraints editor tool to create timing constraints.

  • Timing Summary Report

  Use the post-implementation timing summary report to sign-off criteria for timing closure.

 

 

Clocking in the UltraScale and 7-Series Architecture

• Clocking Resources
  Describes various clock resources, clocking layout, and routing in a design.  

 

Clock buffers in the UltraScale and 7-Series Architecture

• Clock Buffers
  Describes all clocking buffers including MMCM, BUFG, BUGCE, etc.
• Report Clock Networks
  Use report clock networks to view the primary and generated clocks in a design.  

 

I/O in the UltraScale and 7-Series Architecture

• I/O Logic Resources
  Overview of I/O resources and the IOB property for timing closure.    

 

Design Techniques

• Synchronous Design Techniques
  Introduces synchronous design techniques used in an FPGA design. 
• Resets
  Investigates the impact of using asynchronous resets in a design.  

 

Power

• Power Analysis and Optimization Using the Vivado Design Suite
  Use report power commands to estimate power consumption.

 

Configuration

• Configuration Process 
  Reviews the FPGA configuration process, such as device power up, CRC checks, etc.  

 

Debugging

• HDL Instantiation Debug Probing Flow
  Covers the HDL instantiation flow to create and instantiate a VIO core and observe its behavior using the Vivado logic analyzer.  

 

Tcl

• Scripting in Vivado Design Suite Project Mode
  Explains how to write Tcl commands in the project-based flow for a design.

 

IP Integrator

• Creating and Packaging Custom IP
  Create your own IP and package and include it in the Vivado IP catalog.
• Using an IP Container
  Use a core container file as a single file representation for an IP.
• Designing with the IP Integrator
  Use the Vivado IP integrator to create the uart_led subsystem.  

 

Vivado IP Catalog

• Vivado IP Flow
  Customize IP, instantiate IP, and verify the hierarchy of your design IP.
• Block Design Containers in the Vivado IP Integrator
  Describes the block design container (BDC) feature and shows how to create a BDC in the IP integrator.  

 

Debugging

• Introduction to the Vivado Logic Analyzer
  Overview of the Vivado logic analyzer for debugging a design.  

• Introduction to Triggering
  Introduces the trigger capabilities of the Vivado logic analyzer.  

• Debug Cores
  Understand how the debug hub core is used to connect debug cores in a design.  

 

UltraFast Design Methodology

• UltraFast Design Methodology: Board and Device Planning
  Introduces the methodology guidelines covered in this course and the UltraFast Design Methodology checklist.  

 

UltraFast Design Methodology

• UltraFast Design Methodology: Design Creation
  Overview of the methodology guidelines covered in this course.

• Vivado Design Suite Project-based Flow
• Basic Design Analysis in the Vivado IDE
• Vivado Design Rule Checks (Featured)
• AMD Power Estimator Spreadsheet  
• Vivado Synthesis and Implementation
• Vivado IP Flow
• Vivado Design Suite I/O Pin Planning
• Introduction to Clock Constraints
• I/O Constraints and Virtual Clocks (Featured)
• Timing Constraints Wizard
• Introduction to the Tcl Environment
• Resets
• Clocking Resources
• Creating and Packaging Custom IP
• Designing with the IP Integrator (Featured)
• Design Tool Flow
• Introduction to Timing Exceptions
• Power Analysis and Optimization Using the Vivado Design Suite
• HDL Instantiation Debug Probing Flow
• Scripting in Vivado Design Suite Project Mode
• Design Analysis Using Tcl Commands (Featured)