1. Section VII Xilinx University Program

2. Introduction to Xilinx University Program

3. ® AGENDA  Mission/Who are we?/Benefits  Programs and Products  New Tools for Teaching  Help Resources  Summary

4. ® Xilinx University Program (XUP) Group Mission To facilitate the teaching of engineering curriculum using PLDs as the target solution of choice. (To make your job easier)

5. ® Who Are We?  Patrick Kane —XUP Manager-HQ  Anna Acevedo —XUP Marketing-HQ  Jeff Weintraub —TPME - HQ  Chris Sepulveda —XUP Coordinator-HQ  Deon Spicer —XUP-AP Liaison  Renji Mikami —XUP-Japan Liaison  Lina Frangiamore —XUP-Europe Liaison

6. ® Xilinx Benefits to Universities  Ideal for any digital course or research area - Intro / Advanced Digital Design- Digital Signal Processing - Computer Architecture- Control Systems - Network or Video Processing - Adaptive Logic  Immediate results in hardware  Industry standard CAD software  PLD skills demanded by industry  Xilinx Design Series from Prentice Hall  Free XUP Professor’s Workshops available worldwide  Go with the leader

7. ® XUP Programs and Products  Extensive Donation Program  XUP Professor Workshops  Sponsor Design Contests  Research Collaboration  Web Sites —university.xilinx.com —xup.msu.edu  Government Sponsorship  Prentice Hall relationship

8. ® XUP Programs and Products XUP Donation Policy “If a new or expanded course with lab or a research project is being added and funding is not adequate to purchase the required products at the University Program discounts, Xilinx encourages any university or college to submit a donation request.” To Purchase or To Request a Donation - What's Practical for you? If you have sufficient budget to purchase Xilinx software, development boards, and/or chips, then we encourage you to do so. We offer significant discounts for Xilinx software and Xilinx development boards. However, we recognize that very often, schools simply do not have the funding even for the discounted products. In some cases, a school might have some funding, but not enough to obtain everything that is needed for the lab. We encourage you to make the choice that you feel is right for your situation. Most importantly, if money is any barrier to your immediate use of Xilinx products, you should request a donation for what you need.

9. ® New Tools for Teaching

10. ® Spartan Digilab board from Digilent Inc. $99.00 Assembled, $79.00 Unassembled To Order: www.digilent.cc

11. ® Digilent Spartan II Board For more information: www.digilent.cc

12. ® XSV-1 Board from Xess Corp. XCV50 - $699 XCV100 - $749 XCV300 - $899 XCV800 - $1599 To Order: www.xess.com

13. ® Xilinx Student Edition 2.1i  Includes —Foundation Series 2.1i for students’ computers —VHDL and Verilog synthesis —Includes Spartan, Spartan II, XC9500, XC4K family  Sold through university bookstores. Also available at www.prenhall.com and www.Amazon.com  Bundled with Xilinx Design Series or $55 stand alone  New Web Pack Software - free download —Includes all CPLDs, Spartan II —VHDL, Verilog Note: Xilinx student edition software is for student’s personal use and not to be installed in university labs

14. ® GAP System Generator for Simulink  Bridges gap between FPGA and DSP design flows —Used with Simulink®/MATLAB® from The MathWorks  Automatically generates HDL/optimized algorithms —Shortens learning curve —HW redesign eliminated —Optimal implementation DSP Design Flow FPGA Design Flow ®

15. ® Xilinx System Generator  Used with MATLAB® and Simulink® from The MathWorks —Tools familiar to most System and DSP designers —Visual data-flow paradigm  Xilinx Blockset - Simulink library of arithmetic and logic operators, DSP functions —Bit and cycle true to FPGA implementation  Simulink to VHDL compiler —Simulink netlister - automatically generates HDL -> only one design source, no re-verification —Automatically invokes CORE Generator –> optimal implementation

16. ® Xilinx Design Series from Prentice Hall Digital Design Principles and Practices (3rd Ed) John Wakerly Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals Morris Mano and Charles Kime Modeling, Synthesis and Rapid Prototyping Using the Verilog HDL By: Michael Ciletti Introductory VHDL: From Simulation to Synthesis, 1/e Sudhakar Yalamanchili

17. ® Xilinx Design Series from Prentice Hall Digital Electronics Laboratory Experiments Using the Xilinx XC95108 CPLD with Xilinx Foundation: Design and Simulation Software, 1/e James W. Stewart,Chao-Ying Wang, both of DeVry Institute of Technology Digital Electronics with PLD Integration, 1/e Nigel P. Cook

18. ® Help Resources

19. ® XUP URL: university.xilinx.com

20. ® Xilinx University Resource Center www.xup.msu.edu Professor Resources - Teaching Materials - Support Texts Student Resources - Tutorials - Project Examples General Resources - Hardware/Software Online Support - Discussion Forum - FAQ’s - Email support

21. ® http://support.xilinx.com  The Most Up-to-Date Information on Xilinx Products  Forums  Database search  techXclusives  Software Updates  Problem Solvers  Software Manuals  Web Case

22. ® FAQ  Who will Xilinx support in the universities? —Xilinx will give technical support to Professors and teaching assistants in the university labs. Students should get their support from their Professors or at support.xilinx.com or www.xup.msu.edu

23. ® Summary  Xilinx is an excellent choice as target technology for digital design.computer engineering, DSP and many other engineering classes.  Go with the leader in PLDs  XUP’s job is to make your job easier —Make it easy for professors to stay current with technology and to get Xilinx software and hardware —Offer web sites with lab exercises —Prentice-Hall Xilinx Design Series textbooks