HX4	Xilinx - Microblaze implementation

This course explains how to design a SoC based on MicroBlaze, Xilinx proprietary IPs and/or custom IPs using EDK

Objectives The course describes how to build a complete Embedded System based on MicroBlaze Xilinx Processor Microblaze Implementation and Embedded Development Kit (EDK) with Xilinx Platform Studio (XPS) and Software Development Kit (SDK) tools are described to create a hardware platform and the software to execute to program it Xilinx Simulation tools are presented to debug Software and Hardware Impact utility is described to flash the bitstream Chipscope Pro is also used in order to display on-chip AXI transactions

Environment A PC with Xilinx Vivado v.2013.4 IDE Nexys-3 (Xilinx Spartan6-based) board or Nexys-4 (Xilinx Artix7-based) board Training manuals in PDF format (and print format for face-to-face trainings)

Pre-requisites Basic knowledge on processor and FPGA technology Knowledge of VHDL and C languages

Starting with a simple "Hello Word" Project Tools Introduction : The Vivado Design Suite EDK Development flow introduction Hardware Development Software Development Verification (Simulation and Debug) Flashing with Impact Exercise:  Creating the Hardware and Software to send strings on a serial port The MicroBlaze Logicore IP (MCS) Microcontroller system Features Overview Designing with the core Microblaze architecture overview Core block overview Introduction and configurable features Data type and Endianness Register Bank (General Purpose Registers and Special Registers) Pipeline Branches Privilege Modes Hardware Exception Breaks Interrupts Vector Table Floating Point Unit Caches and MMU Overview Debug MicroBlaze ABI MicroBlaze Interface Overview MicroBlaze I/O Overview AXI4 bus, AXI-Lite AXI-Stream PLB (Peripheral Local Bus) LMB (Local Memory Bus) FSL (Fast Simplex Link Interface) XCL (Xilinx CacheLink Interface) Debug Interface MicroBlaze Core Configurability Exercise:  Looking at the MicroBlaze core configuration wizard Exercise:  Area size analysis on different systems (with/without caches, AXI/PLB) Hardware Design- Xilinx Platform Studio (XPS) Introduction Platgen Simgen Generating the Simulation Models and the Testbench Loading an application XPS Interface Description MHS, MPD, PAO files Description Accessing peripheral information (Datasheet, MPD, etc.) Bus and Periphral Connexion Peripheral definition files Platgen tool Exercise:  Enhancing the "Hello World" Platform (Adding Interrupt Controller, Timer, GPIO, RAM) •  Working with bus interfaces, Ports and Memory mapping Exercise:  Simulating the platform with ISim through ISE Project Navigator •  Analysing the Instruction fetching on the Instruction AXI bus

Software Design- The Software Development Kit (SDK) Introduction Libgen Scanned repositories for software component Startup Linker Script MSS, MLD, MDD files description Board Support Package Specification Using Xilinx IP Drivers Interrupt Management Block RAM initialization (Data2Mem) Debugging (Memory, Registers, Disassembly views, etc.) Generating the Linker Script (Placing Code and Data in different memories) Executing the application from an External DDR3 Memory (using a bootloader) Profiling Rebuilding the application and the BSP with the correct compiler flags to use profiling Exercise:  Developing the software for the hardware platform created with XPS •  Timer Implementation •  Interrupt management •  Creating a Blinky •  Generating Interrupts from GPIOs •  Placing the application code/data in different memories •  Using Profiling Custom Peripheral Creation and Insertion Create or Import Peripheral (CIP) Wizard Introduction LogiCORE IP AXI Lite IPIF to connect a slave peripheral on the bus Creating HDL and MPD templates through XPS Directory Structure generated IP development and Simulation through ISE Developing a user IP and a testbench Understanding how to create software registers (memory mapped) Simulating the IP Importing a Custom IP to XPS Connecting a Slave IP on the AXI-Lite Bus Exercise:  Developing and Simulating a custom IP (controlling LED intensity with a PWM) through ISE Exercise:  Using the CIP wizard to implement this user IP into our platform (SoC) Exercise:  Developing the software application to program the IP through SDK The ChipScope Hardware Debugger Introduction to Chipscope Pro Implementing an AXI monitor into the design to analyze AXI4-Lite Bus transactions Retrieving the on-chip signals waveforms using Chipscope Pro Analyzer Clarifying trigger conditions Exercise:  Connecting a Chipscope Analyzer to the AXI bus on our custom IP side and, using it to measure bandwidths

 

Duration	Cost	Calendar
2 days	1880 € HT
Last update: 15 November 2021
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