Function Acceleration on FPGA with Vitis-Part 1: Fundamental
What you'll learn
- Understanding the basic concepts of FPGA-Based embedded systems
- Understanding the Xilinx Zynq 7000 SoC and Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC architectures
- Accelerating functions in the Xilinx Vitis unified software platform
- Using C/C++/OpenCL for accelerating compute-intensive algorithms on Zynq platforms
- Running the accelerated applications on software and hardware emulators
- Running the accelerated applications on actual FPGAs
- Working with Zybo-Z7-20 and Ultra96V2 Zynq-based FPGA platforms
- Implementing three exciting projects with Vitis
Requirements
- Understanding the basic concepts of C/C++ coding
- Xilinx Vitis software unified platform
- A Zynq-Based FPGA such as Zybo-Z7-20 or Ultra96v2
Description
This course is an introduction to function acceleration in high-level synthesis (HLS). The goals of the course are describing, debugging and implementing compute-intensive algorithms on FPGA-based embedded systems using C/C++ language without any help from HDLs (e.g., VHDL or Verilog).
The course introduces the Xilinx Zynq embedded systems and then explains how to use Xilinx toolsets to map applications on them.
It uses the Xilinx Vitis unified software platform to describe real examples and applications for embedded systems. The course follows the software and hardware emulation schemes as well as running the applications on the actual FPGAs.
Each section of the course uses several examples, quizzes and exercises to explain complex designing concepts easily and smoothly.
Along the course, you will work with several examples describing the HLS concepts and techniques. The course contains numerous quizzes and exercises for you to practice and master the proposed methods and approaches. In addition, the course utilises two exciting projects to put all the explained concepts together to design real circuits and hardware controllers.
This course is the first of a series of courses on function acceleration on Zynq-based embedded systems. Whereas this course focuses on fundamental concepts, the other courses will explain different optimisation techniques in Vitis.
Who this course is for:
- Hardware engineers
- Software engineers who are interested in FPGA
- Lecturers, researchers, professors who want to use FPGA-based embedded systems in lectures, courses or research
Instructor
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Mohammad Hosseinabady received the PhD degree in computer engineering. He has been teaching electronics and computer courses in several universities for more than ten years. He is currently working on high-level synthesis for FPGA. His goal is to make advanced reconfigurable technologies more accessible for everyone who may not have in-depth knowledge of FPGAs and the traditional hardware design methodologies. His research interests include high-level reliability and testability, reconfigurable architectures, dynamic resource management, and runtime power management. He has published several papers on these topics in IEE, IEEE and ACM transactions, journals and conference proceedings.