Advanced course to FPGA programming

27 Oct 2025, 14:00 → 29 Oct 2025, 18:00 Europe/Rome

INFN Perugia

Daniele Spiga (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Pasquale Lubrano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Simone Gennai (MIB), Stefano Giagu (Sapienza Università di Roma and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Bulletin Advanced Course on FPGA programming.pdf

Monday 27 October

14:00 → 18:00 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

14:00 Intro and Basic concepts

Speaker: Piero Vicini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

1_FPGA_Introduction.pdf

Tuesday 28 October

09:00 → 13:00 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

14:00 → 18:00 Advanced design flow

Timing analysis, debug via ILA/VIO, block design generation for IP

4_Vivado_tool.pdf

Wednesday 29 October

09:00 → 13:00 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

14:00 → 18:00 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