Digital design with FPGAs

The FPGAs are extremely powerful to implement computationally demanding algorithms. Gigabits per second broadband signal processing for 5G systems, cryptography, hash generation, radar applications and ASIC prototyping - all the industry areas, where high computational load is present are subjects to apply FPGAs.

In this course you will start from the very basics of digital design and then in parallel (as supposed by the parallel nature of FPGAs) will improve the skills in theory, language (VHDL), IDE features and digital signal processing implementation. The course includes theory and labs on basic combinatorial and sequential logic, examples of various approaches for DSP algorithms implementation, techniques for high speed or low area development, design analysis tools and best coding practices.

In the learning process, you:

• Learn the basic theory of digital devices
• Learn VHDL language for FPGA programming
• Learn how to work with Vivado IDE
• Get practical skills for FPGA programming

Module 1. Combinational logic

Module 2. Sequential logic

Module 3. Fixed-point and floating-point numbers

Module 4. FPGA specific

• Implement digital devices in FPGAs, using Xilinx Vivado IDE and VHDL
• Simulate the behavior of your digital device, using your testbench and Vivado Simulator
• Analyze the implemented device in terms of resources, throughput, latency and maximum clock frequency