Hardware Training

Attending this course will provide students a working knowledge of how to implement a Xilinx PCI Express core in custom applications. This course offers students hands-on experience with implementing a Xilinx PCI Express system within the customer education reference design. With this experience, users can improve their time to market with the PCIe core design. Various Xilinx PCI Express core products will be enumerated to aid in selecting the proper solution. This course focuses on the AXI streaming interconnect.

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Connectivity 3
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Become acquainted with the various solutions that Xilinx offers for Ethernet connectivity. Learn the basics of the Ethernet standard, protocol, and OSI model while applying Xilinx solutions via hands-on laboratory exercises. Perform simulation to understand fundamental principles and obtain the knowledge to assess hardware design considerations and software development requirements. Become familiar with Ethernet IP core design architectures, core IP port naming conventions, and signal waveforms.
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In this two-day course, you will learn how to employ serial transceivers in your 7 series, UltraScale™, UltraScale+™ FPGA or Zynq® UltraScale+ MPSoC design. You will identify and use the features of the serial transceiver blocks, such as 8B/10B and 64B/66B encoding, channel bonding, clock correction, and comma detection.
Additional topics include use of the Transceivers Wizards, synthesis and implementation considerations, board design as it relates to the transceivers, and testing and debugging. This course combines lectures with practical hands-on labs.

Level:

Connectivity 3

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FPGA Introduction assuming VHDL is a known language.
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This course teaches hardware designers who are new to high-speed memory I/O to design a memory interface in Xilinx FPGAs. It introduces designers to the basic concepts of high-speed memory I/O design, implementation, and debugging using 7 series FPGAs.
Additionally, students will learn about the tools available for high-speed memory interface design, debug, and implementation of high-speed memory interfaces.
The major memory types covered are DDR2 and DDR3. The following memory types are covered on demand: RLDRAMII, LPDDR, and QDRII+. Labs are available for DDR3 on the Kintex™-7 FPGA KC705 board.

Level:

Connectivity 3

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Course Description
Are you interested in learning how to effectively utilize 7 series high-speed interface resources? This course supports both experienced and less experienced FPGA designers who have in minimum general digital hardware knowledge and basic information on 7 series FPGAs. Furthermore, first work with the new Xilinx VIVADO Design Suite is helpful.  This course focuses on understanding as well as how to properly design for the high-speed interface solutions found in the new device families: transceiver in general, PCI Express and memory interfacing complemented with board design issues. Topics covered include interface overviews, design usage, simulation, implementation and examples on real hardware.
This course also includes a detailed discussion about proper PCB design techniques that enables designers to avoid common mistakes and get the most out of their FPGA interfaces.
A combination of modules and labs allow for practical hands-on application of the principles taught.
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PCI Express is the open standards- based successor to PCI and its variants for server- and client-system I/O interconnects. Unlike PCI and PCI-X, which are based on 32- and 64-bit parallel buses, PCI Express uses high-speed serial link technology similar to that found in Gigabit Ethernet, Serial ATA (SATA), and Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS). PCI Express reflects an industry trend to replace legacy shared parallel buses with high-speed point-to-point serial buses.

In this training we will discuss and cover the following:

• Packet switching benefits compared to shared busses are highlighted
• The course explains the various traffic types that PCI Express supports
• The use of virtual channels to match Quality of Service requirements is explained
• The course describes the discovery sequence required to initialize the switches
• The course details the various stages of the physical layer : 8b10b and 128/130b coding, scrambling, elastic buffer, clock recovery and link training sequence
• The course highlight the differences between the 3 generations of PCI Express 

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Learn when and how to apply power & signal integrity techniques to high-speed interfaces between components. This comprehensive course combines design techniques and methodology with relevant background concepts of high-speed bus and clock design, including transmission line termination, loading, and jitter.
You will work with IBIS models and complete simulations using Mentor Graphics HyperLynx. Other topics include managing PCB effects and on-chip termination. This course balances lecture modules with instructor demonstrations and practical hands-on labs.

Level:

Connectivity 3 

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Attending the Tips & Tricks for Board Design class will enrich your knowledge in several features of current board design. This 1 day seminar will familiarize you with new aspects and problems you may encounter during project development. In addition, by mastering the tools and the design methodologies presented in this course, you will be able to design faster, shorten development time, lower development costs and lower design risk.

Level:

Intermediate

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