CDA 4253 FPGA System Design

Schedule

(Tentative, to be expanded throughout the semester.)
Lecture slides are available at links under the column Subjects.

Subjects	Reading
Course Overview and Introduction	Getting Started with Vivado Vivado Design Suite User Guide -- Getting Started BZedboard Hardware User's Guide Zynq-7000 SoC Technical Reference Manual, Chapter 1
VHDL: Fundamentals	Chapter 1, Chu's book Xilinx XST VHDL Support numeric_std package
VHDL: Modeling of Combinational Circuits	Chapter 3, Chu's book
VHDL: Behavioral Modeling of Sequential Circuits	Section 3.4 -3.6, Chapter 4, Chu's book VHDL sequential statements
VHDL: Finite State Machines	Chapter 5, Chu's book XST FSM HDL Coding Techniques
VHDL: Testbench Development
Design Methodology
FPGA Architecture Overview	An Overview of FPGA Architectures
Introduction to ZYNQ	The ZYNQ Book, Chapter 1, 2, 3
Embedded Memory	XST RAM HDL Coding Techniques 7 Series FPGA Memory Resources - User Guide
Xilinx PicoBlaze Microcontroller: Overview	Pong Chu's book, Chapter 14 Xilinx PicoBlaze User Guide A quick tutorial on PicoBlaze PicoBlaze-6 User Guide
Xilinx PicoBlaze Microcontroller: Interfacing	Pong Chu's book, Chapter 16 & 17 Xilinx PicoBlaze User Guide (UG 129) Chapter 4 & 6
Optimization Techniques for FPGA Design	Advanced FPGA Design by Steve Kilts, Chapter 1 - 3
Xilinx PicoBlaze Microcontroller: Instruction Set and Assembly Program Development	PPT	Pong Chu's book, Chapter 15
High-Level Synthesis Introduction to Vivado High-Level Synthesis	Introduction to High-Level Synthesis High-Level Synthesis Blue Book Demo of Vivado HLS on a sorting algorithm
IP Development - Demo	Creating and using custom IP blocks The above tutorial in PDF Files used in the demo C for SDK VHDL

References on FPGA System Design

• Reconfigurable Computing : The Theory and Practice of FPGA-Based Computation, Scott Hauck, Andre DeHon, ISBN 9780123705228 (Free online access through the USF library)
• Advanced FPGA design : architecture, implementation, and optimization, Steve Kilts, ISBN 0470127899 (Free online access through the USF library)
• The design warrior's guide to FPGAs : devices, tools, and flows, Clive "Max" Maxfield, ISBN 9780750676045 (Free online access through the USF library)

Resources on Zedboard and Xilinx Design Tools

• Synthesis and Simulation Design Guide, Xlinix
• XST User Guide for Virtex-6 Spartan-6 and 7 Series Devices, Xilinx
• Zedboard Quick Start
• Zedboard Getting Started Guide
• Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques (CTT)
• HDL Design with Vivado Tutorial, Xilinx
• Terminal Emulator
• Information on setting up and using serial communication
• An example design where Zedboard communicates with a host via ehternet
• Basys3@Digilent
• Basys3 Wiki page

VHDL Resources

• RTL hardware design using VHDL : coding for efficiency, portability, and scalability, Pong Chu, ISBN 0471720925 (Free on-line access through the USF library)
  • More information including source code listed in the book, sample solutions, etc, can be downloaded from the book's companion website (here).
• FPGA Prototyping by VHDL Examples, Pong Chu, ISBN 9780470185315 (Free on-line access through the USF library)
  • Source code listed in the Chu's book can be downloaded from the book's companion website (here).
• VHDL Quick Reference
• VHDL IEEE 1164 Packages Quick Reference
• OpenCores HDL Coding Guidelines
• A VHDL Primer by Jayaram Bhasker, which can be found online by googling its title
• Digital System Design With FPGA: Implementation Using Verilog And VHDL by Cem Unsalan and Bora Tar, which can be found here

Other Related Courses and Useful Resources

• GMU, ECE 448 FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL
• U of Mass, ECE 636 Reconfigurable Computing
• Brown U., EN2911X Reconfigurable Computing
• U of Florida, EEL4720/5721 - Reconfigurable Computing
• CS 223 Reconfigurable Computing
• U of California at Berkeley, CS 294-59: The Technology and Business of FPGAs
• Good tutorials on HW design using Zedboards

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