Upcoming Courses

Are you interested in learning how to effectively utilize Spartan®-6 or Virtex®-6 FPGA architectural resources? This course focuses on understanding as well as how to properly design for the primary resources found in these popular device families.

Topics covered include device overviews, CLB construction, DCM and PLL clocking resources, global, regional and I/O clocking techniques, memory, DSP, and source-synchronous resources. Memory controller support and the dedicated hardware resources available in each of the sub-families (EMAC, PCI Express® technology, and GTP transceivers) are also introduced.
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FPGA-Based Hardware-Software Co-Development
25-26 Feb 2010

Engineering innovation and creativity has been and will always play pivotal role in the fast-pacing high-tech economy. Among the engineering disciplines, hardware design and software design are two of the most interrelated areas. Hardware engineers design new electronic circuits while software engineers develop device drivers and computer user interfaces. However, hardware and software engineers often do not understand benefits and limitations of their counterparts. This often leads to poor collaboration which may result in project delay as well as failure to meet performance goals. It is thus highly beneficial for hardware design engineers to acquire crucial programming skills such as writing low-level driver for device interface and graphical Windows-based user interface.
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Optimization for Industrial Applications with MATLAB
21 Jan / 22 Feb 2010

This course is an introduction to applied optimization methods in the MATLAB environment. It emphasizes the use of the Optimization Toolbox. The course introduces participants to formulating and implementing optimization problems in the MATLAB environment. Emphasis is on problem identification, formulation, and choosing the appropriate optimization function for the problem on hand. General techniques for producing usable output in numerical and graphical form are also discussed. The course includes hands-on examples from a cross-section of application areas to reinforce important concepts.
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Control Design: From Theory, Software Modeling to Hardware Implementation
8-12 Feb 2010

This course is designed to cover the basic theory of control design to hardware implementation using the Xilinx FPGA.
The theory covers the fundamentals of control system to system modeling. The MATLAB® and Simulink® software will be used for system analyses to confirm the studied theories and to simulate a controlled system dynamically. Finally, the steps to implement the ideally simulated controller model in hardware will be shown; the challenges in transferring an ideal model to a realizable hardware will be discussed. The Xilinx FPGA, Spartan 3a evaluation board, will be used for the controller implementation as it provides various peripherals and extended modules to interface with other hardware.
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