Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC for the Hardware Designer - LIVE ONLINE

This course provides software designers with an overview of the capabilities and support for the Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC family  from a hardware architectural perspective. The FPGA based HDL programming extends the capabilities of the PS while several AXI based interconnects are provided with different types. Also booting and hardware bring-up topics are discussed.

The theoretical content is supplemented by exercises carried out by the participant.
 

Duration: 3 mornings of 4 hours each

Times:    9.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.    Lecture part 1

              11.00 a.m. - 11.15 a.m.  15 minute break

              11.15 a.m. - 1.15 p.m.    Lecture part 2

Exercises: self paced by the participants. Estimated time for completion appr. 2-3 hours. At the end of a lecture, the exercises to be performed by participants are discussed. The results / sample solutions are presented by the trainer the next day.

After registration: the participant receives the presentation documents in electronic form (PDF) as well as the workbook for the exercises, the login data and a list of 
requirements to be done in advanced.

Course Objectives:

• Identifying the key elements of the processing units APU, RPU, PMU
• Reviewing the various power domains and their control structure
• Illustrating the processing system (PS) and programmable logic (PL) connectivity
• Managing AXI Interfacing
• Utilizing QEMU to emulate hardware behavior

Agenda:

• Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC ARM APU Unit
• Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC ARM RPU Unit
• Hardware-Software Virtualization
• QEMU for Application Devlopment and Debugging
• Boot Concepts
• First Stage Boot Loader
• System Protection
• Clocks and Resets
• AXI Interconnects and Traffic Generator
• The Platform Management Unit PMU
• Power Management

Labs

• Exploring the Architecture of the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC
• Boot and Configuration
• Bare-Metal Application Development and Debugging
• Exploring AXI Performance
• Managing Power for Other Processors

Applicable technologies

• XILINX ZYNQ UltraScale+ MPSoC & RFSoC

Requirements

• Conceptual understanding of embedded processing systems
• FPGA HDL programming experience
• Basics in working with the Vivado tool suite