FPGA Prototyping with Xilinx Tools

28 March 2022
GNIOT Campus

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Greater Noida Institute of Technology (GNIOT), organized one week workshop on “ FPGA Prototyping with Xilinx Tools” for their 3rd year students, during 28.03.2022-01.04.2022. This workshop was intended to impart the knowledge of hardware implementation of digital circuits used in the industries. Focus of the workshop was to design the digital circuits and verify them on Xilinx Vivado tool. The hardware description language such as Verilog was used to design the digital circuits. Then, the output was verified in the software by running the simulations.

Further, the implemented code was dumped into FPGA kit (BASYS 3 FPGA board was used) and hardware implementation of the circuit was obtained. The Keyspeaker of the workshop was Mr. Anil Kumar Rajput, who is currently Pursuing his Ph.D from ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior. He has done his M.Tech from NIT Rourkela. His interest areas include Energy-aware VLSI architecture design, in-memory computation systems, network-on-chip and analog circuit design. The entire session was very Knowledgeable, very Interactive and Informative for both faculty and students.

The highlight of the workshop includes:

• Describing the general Artix-7 FPGA architecture.

• Understand the basic design flow on Xilinx Vivado.

• Design and verify HDL codes.

• Configure the BASYS 3 FPGA board to verify the hardware operation.

• Learned to check the design critical parameters such as no. of gates required, power dissipation, area utilized etc., using the reports provided by the tool.

• The information can be used later to improve the performance of the circuits.

The Outcomes of the workshop includes:

• Students learnt how to design the digital circuits using Xilinx Vivado tool.

• Get to know how to simulate, synthesize and implement the circuit on FPGA.

• How to evaluate the critical circuit design parameters.

• Got a hands on experience on FPGA Board.