Name: Advanced course to FPGA programming
Start: 2025-10-27T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-29T18:00:00+01:00
Location: INFN Perugia

Monday 27 October
- Introduction and basic concepts
  
  FPGA architecture, VHDL basic recap, VHDL general design flow and simulation tools
  
  Vivado sourcing code:
  source /opt/tools/Xilinx/Vivado/2023.2/settings64.sh
  - 1
    
    Intro and Basic concepts
    
    Speaker: Piero Vicini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
    
    1_FPGA_Introduction.pdf
Tuesday 28 October
- VHDL basic and advanced recap, Vivado Design Flow
  
  VHDL advanced syntax, Vivado tool for VHDL to bitstream, scripting language for shell
  
  2_VHDL_basics.pdf
  
  3_Advanced_VHDL.pdf
- Advanced design flow
  
  Timing analysis, debug via ILA/VIO, block design generation for IP
  
  4_Vivado_tool.pdf
Wednesday 29 October
- Tools at work
  
  design flow for a complete optimized FPGA-FPGA interconnect based on AURORA transceivers: IP design, compilation and timing analysis, test&debug via ILA, fine tuning, performance evaluation
- Tools at work
  
  design flow for a complete optimized FPGA-FPGA interconnect based on AURORA transceivers: IP design, compilation and timing analysis, test&debug via ILA, fine tuning, performance evaluation