First Day
Finite State Machine (1st part)
- The Finite State Machine Approach
- Sequential Circuits and State Machines
- State Transition Diagram
- Transition Types
- Moore-to-Mealy Conversion
- Mealy-to-Moore Conversion
- Exercises
- Hardware Fundamentals
- Flip-Flops
- Metastability and Synchronizers
- Pulse Detection
- Glitches
- Pipelined Implementations
- Exercises
- Hardware Architectures for State Machines
- Fundamental Design Technique for Moore Machines
- Fundamental Design Technique for Mealy Machines
- Moore versus Mealy Time Behavior
- State Machine Categories and State-Encoding Options
- Safe State Machines
Finite State Machine (2nd part)
- Design Steps and Classical Mistakes
- Classical Problems and Mistakes
- Design Steps Summary
- Regular State Machines
- Architectures for Regular Machines
- Number of Flip-Flops
- Exercises
- Timed State Machines
- Architectures for Timed Machines
- Timer interpretation
- Transition Types and Timer Usage
- Timer Control Strategies
- Time Behavior of Timed Moore and Mealy Machines
- Examples of Timed Machines
| Exercise: |
Designing a burstable RAM controller |
Second Day
Design Methodology for Synthesis
- Designing for Synthesis
- Metastability
- Memory Synthesis
- Reset Generation
- Crossing Clock domains
Timing analysis and constraints
- Timing Closure challenges
- A methodology for successful Timing Closure
- Common Timing Closure Issues
- Static Timing Analysis
- Role of Timing Constraints in STA
- Common Issues in STA
- Delay Calculation versus STA
- Timing Path
- Setup and Hold
- Slack
- On-Chip Variation
- Clock
- Port Delays
- Completing Port Constraints
- False Paths
- Multi Cycle Paths
- Combinational Paths
- Xilinx Extensions
| Exercise: |
Design closure |
| Exercise: |
Analyzing and Resolving timing violations |
Third Day
Introduction to Open Source VHDL Verification Methodology (OSVVM)
- Overview
- Transaction-Level Modeling
- Constrained Random Test Generation
- Functional Coverage
- Intelligent Coverage Randomization Methodology
- Utilities for Testbench Process Synchronization
- Transcript Files
- Error Logging and Reporting – Alerts and Affirmations
Introduction to Universal VHDL Verification Methodology (UVVM)
- Utility Library
- VVC (VHDL Verification Component) Framework
- BFMs (Bus Functional Models
- OSVVM and UVVM
Vivado Debug
- Vivado Integrated Logic Analyzer (ILA)
- Adding debug nets
- Analyzing debug data
- Resources
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