FPGA Design Flow using Vivado

Skills Gained

After completing this workshop, you will be able to:

• Describe the general Artix-7 FPGA architecture
• Understand the Vivado design flow
• Create and debug HDL designs
• Configure FPGA and verify hardware operation
• Configure FPGA architecture features, such as Clock Manager, using the Architecture Wizard
• Communicate design timing objectives through the use of Design Constraints
• Pinpoint design bottlenecks using the reports
• Utilize synthesis options to improve performance
• Create and integrate IP cores into design flow using IP Catalog
• Use Logic Analyzer to perform on-chip verification
• Perform simulation verifcation

Course Overview

Day 1:

• 7 Series Architecture Overview
  
  
• Lab 1: Vivado Design Flow
  • Use Vivado IDE to create a simple HDL design. Simulate the design using the XSIM HDL simulator available in Vivado Design Suite. Generate the bitstream and verify in hardware.
     
• Synthesis Technique
  
  
• Lab 2: Synthesizing a RTL Design
  • Synthesize a design with the default settings as well as other settings changed and observe the effect.
     
• Implementation and Static Timing Analysis
  
  
• Lab 3: Implementing the Design
  • Implement the synthesized design of previous lab, perform timing analysis, generate bitstream, download the bitstream and verify the functionality.

Day 2:

• IP Integrator
  
  
• Lab 4: Using the IP Catalog and IP Integrator
  • Use the IP Catalog to generate a clock resource and instantiate in a design. Use IP Integrate to generate a core and instantiate in the design.
     
• Design Constraints
  
  
• Lab 5: Design Constraints
  • Create a project with I/O Planning type, enter pin locations, and export it to the rtl. Then create the timing constraints and perform the timing analysis.
     
• Hardware Debugging
  
  
• Lab 6: Hardware Debugging
  • Use Mark Debug feature and also available Integrated Logic Analyzer(ILA) core (available in IP Catalog) to debug the hardware.