1. Hands On SoC FPGA Design
Class 1: An Introduction to System on Chip (SoC) Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)
July 20th, 2015 Warren Miller

2. Course Overview SoC FPGAs combine a processor with programmable fabric
These powerful products are popular solutions for performance oriented applications.
This class will get you ‘hands on’ with the Xilinx Zynq™ 7010 SoC FPGA (HW optional).
Use the free tools and/or the optional Digilent ZYBO Zynq Board available from Digi-Key
Just about every FPGA manufacturer now offers devices that feature a combination of programmable fabric and fixed function processors on a single device. These are commonly called SoC FPGAs. These powerful products can be used in a wide variety of applications and are growing in popularity in performance oriented applications. This class will help you get more familiar with the capabilities of SoC FPGAs by getting ‘hands on’ with an example SoC FPGA- the Xilinx Zynq™ 7010 SoC FPGA. Students can use the free tools and follow along with the class example designs to learn how to develop applications using SoC FPGAs. Optionally, a development board- the Digilent ZYBO Zynq Board available from Digi-Key, can be used to run the class examples on actual hardware.

3. This Week’s Agenda
7/20/15 An Introduction to SoC FPGAs 7/21/15 Downloading, Installing and Running Design Software 7/22/15 A Simple Example Design 7/23/15 Targeting the Development Board 7/24/15 Processor and FPGA- the full flow

4. Today’s Goals and Objectives
Provide an overview of the hardware and software environment for SoC FPGA design.
Example SoC FPGAs Hardware
SoC FPGA Development Environment
SoC FPGA Development Boards
Example Applications
FPGAs with embedded processors are powerful devices, but can be complicated to design with. This class will introduce some example SoC FPGAs, the typical design flow, target applications and resources available to speed YOUR design.

5. Why is this Topic Important?
Intel Buys Altera.
$16.7B at a 56% Premium
FPGA technology to more markets
Data Center, Distributed Computing, IoT
Massive Heterogeneous Multi-processing
Flexible processing
Target GPU, CPU, FPGA as needed
Program hardware in “C”

6. FPGAs with Embedded Processors
Yep- as you would expect…
Processor
With associated memory and peripherals
FPGA Fabric
Logic blocks, Memory blocks, Math blocks, etc.
SerDes and GPIO
Processor
Memory
Peripherals
FPGA Fabric
SerDes
GPIO
Why?

7. Processor, Memory & Peripherals
ARM: Single/Dual, FPU
Interrupt, Debug, Cache
Bus Interface
Memory
Instruction and Data
Usually SRAM (Flash from Microsemi)
Cache (L2)
Peripherals
Internal: Timers, WDT, DMA, Security, etc
External: UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, SDIO, USB, ENET, Flash Controller, DDR Controller, ADC, DAC
Processor
Memory
Peripherals

8. FPGA Fabric Look-up Tables Interconnect Carry logic for counters
Block memory
Large, Small, Multi-port
Math blocks
DSP, Fixed/Floating point
Interface to Processor Subsystem
Processor
Memory
Peripherals
FPGA Fabric

9. SerDes Serializer Deserializer
Low Level logic needed for high speed serial IOs
Programmable PHY
Advanced features
6-10Gbps
Adaptive Equalization, Pre-Distortion, etc
Testing: On-chip Eye
Some also have hard MACs
PCIe
Processor
Memory
Peripherals
FPGA Fabric
SerDes

10. GPIO, DDR Controllers GPIO DDR Controllers
Support for many, many IO standards
Bank basis
Programmable features
DDR Controllers
Range of standards
LPDDR, DDR2/3, etc
Advanced features
PHY, Access Optimization, ECC, etc
Processor
Memory
Peripherals
FPGA Fabric
SerDes
GPIO
DDR

11. Xilinx Zynq Dual ARM CPUs CPU Peripherals Memory External Peripherals
FPGA Fabric
Fabric
Peripherals

12. Software Define the system Program the Processor in “C” or Assembly
System Definition
Define the system
Program the Processor in “C” or Assembly
Libraries
Program the FPGA in HDL (or C)
IP Blocks
Simulate, Program and Debug
FPGA
Processor
Simulate
Program
Debug

13. Zynq Software Tools

14. Development Board (One Example)
Arria 10 Dev Board ($4500)
SoC FPGA
Ethernet (3), USB, PCIe, SPI, I2C
DisplayPort
Boot Flash, File Flash, DDR3
FMC Expansion

15. Applications Arria V/10 SmartFusion2 Zynq Video Surveillance
Wireless Infrastructure
Wireline Communications
Broadcast Video
Defense and Aerospace
Medical
Compute and Storage
SmartFusion2
Security
Military, Industrial, Communications and Aviation
Design and Data Security Features
NVM Fabric, Bit Stream Encryption,
Root-of-Trust, Secure key storage,
Physically Unclonable Function (PUF),
Differential Power Analysis (DPA) Protection
Reliability
Military, Aviation and Space
Key Reliability Features
NVM Fabric is SEU immune,
SEU Protected memories
Zynq
Driver Assistance
Consumer Equipment
Factory Automation
Broadcast Camera
Military Radios
Medical Imaging
Wired Communication
AVB Routers, Switches, Encoders

16. What are YOUR Designs?
Post in the chat a very short description of the type of application you are working on or expect to be working on.
I will cover as many as I can in the class on Friday where we look at example implementations!

17. Resources for Todays Class
CEC Courses: An Introduction to Application Specific Programmable Logic Devices Using FPGAs with Embedded Processors in Your Designs Getting Started with Programmable Logic Programmable Logic: How do they do that? SoC FPGA Manufacturers Web Sites:

18. Additional Resources
Altera Arria Web Page Altera Arria Development Kits Microsemi SmartFusion2 Web Page Microsemi SmartFusion2 Development Kits Xilinx Zynq Web Page Xilinx Zynq Development Kits

19. This Week’s Agenda
7/20/15 An Introduction to SoC FPGAs 7/21/15 Downloading, Installing and Running Design Software 7/22/15 A Simple Example Design 7/23/15 Targeting the Development Board 7/24/15 Processor and FPGA- the full flow