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Course
Description
This course will appeal to engineers who have an interest in developing low-cost products, particularly in high-volume markets. The course and exercises cover several different design techniques, which will be interesting and challenging for any digital designer regardless of the final application.
Level
Fundamental
Duration
2 day
Who
Must Attend
Engineers wanting to develop low-cost products, particularly in high-volume markets, and product designers who need to accurately estimate the size of devices required to implement products to predict costs without requiring the actual design to be implemented
Prerequisites
- An understanding of digital logic design and the concept of an FPGA
- An appreciation of VHDL and CAE design flows is beneficial, but not vital
Why
this training pays huge dividends
After completing this training, you will be able to:
- Describe the features of the Spartan-3 devices
- Describe the features of the Spartan-IIE and Spartan-3 devices
- Accurately estimate design size to aid in predicting product costs
- Apply design techniques that result in low-cost implementations
- Explore creative ways to use the FPGA memory resources to reduce design costs
Course Outline
- What is an FPGA?
- Spartan Family
- CLBs, Slices and BRAM
- Multiplexers
- Flip-Flop Controls
- Synchronous Timing vs. Asynchronous Timing
- Digital Clock Managers
- Dedicated Carry Logic
- Counters
- Wired Carry Gates
- Block Memory
- Distributed RAM
- FIFO
- Dual Port Memory
- PicoBlaze™ Microcontroller Processor
- State Machines
- Design Challenges
Exercises
- Exercise 1: Exploring the Slice
- Exercise 2: Logic Levels
- Exercise 3: Dedicated Multiplexers
- Exercise 4: Performance by Design
- Exercise 5: Clocks
- Exercise 6: Counters
- Exercise 7: Aspect Ratios
- Exercise 8: Replacing Logic with Block RAM
- Exercise 9: Distributed RAM
- Exercise 10: Essence of FIFO
- Exercise 11: Delay
- Exercise 12: PicoBlaze Microprocessor
- Exercise 13: State Machines
- Design Challenges
- Rotational Trigger
- Operation Clock
- LED Wall Display
- Electronic Keyboard
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