Xilinx Vivado: Beginners Course to FPGA Development in VHDL

Name: Xilinx Vivado: Beginners Course to FPGA Development in VHDL
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Making FPGA's Fun by Helping you Learn the Tools in Vivado Design Suite, using VHDL

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Last updated 2/2017

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What you'll learn

Use Vivado to create a simple HDL design
Sythesize, Implement a design and download to the FPGA
Create a Microblaze Soft Core Processor
Understand the fundamentals of the Vivado Design FLow

Course content

5 sections • 15 lectures • 1h 14m total length

Introduction2:22
Introduction to the Vivado Training Course.
Before you Embark on this Course0:41
How to Download and Install Xilinx Vivado Design Suite6:03
The first step to getting started in Vivado is to download the Design Suite. You will learn where to download Vivado Design Suite and then I will show you how to go about and install it. Once we have it installed, I will show you how to obtain the license for the Vivado IDE.

Introduction to the Vivado Design Suite Interface and Creating a New Project7:12
In this lecture you will learn how to create a new project as well as get an introduction to the Vivado Design Suite Interface. I walk you step by step on how to start get started in Vivado with a VHDL project.
Coding and Simulating Simple VHDL in Vivado7:51
So you got Xilinx Vivado up and running, that's awesome!! Now what? Okay so in this lecture tutorial you going to learn how to code a simple AND GATE in VHDL and then we are going to use Vivado to simulate that code and observe our results. Our simulation requires us to write a simple testbench, which can also be generated online.
Implementation of VHDL Design in Vivado and IO Pin Planning9:11
Did your sythesis of the simple VHDL code work? Yes? Woohoo! okay so in this lecture we going to implement IO planning where we assign our port to the FPGA IO pins. This will generate to the XDC constraints file Once that is done you can Implement the Design in Vivado and Generate the Bitsteam. The bitstream is the file that you use to upload onto your FPGA.
Downloading the Bit-stream to the FPGA1:28
This is a simple lecture demonstrating how to use hardware manager open a hardware target (Your FPGA Development kit) and on how to download your generated bitstream to the fpga. I demonstrate the AND Gate working in real time on my Artix FPGA board

Design a Block RAM in IP Integrator7:01
In this lecture you will learn how to use IP integrator to design a BRAM module
Simulating BRAM memory IP in Vivado5:15
In the last lecture tutorial we had a look at how to create a Block RAM memory interface in Vivado. In this lecture we will look at how you simulate the BRAM IP block and test to see if it works. We used VHDL for the top layer from IP integrator. This training video is part of a full Xilinx Vivado course.

Designing a Microblaze Soft Processor in Vivado IP Integrator10:09
The MicroBlaze is a soft microprocessor core designed for Xilinx FPGAs from Xilinx. As a soft-core processor, MicroBlaze is implemented entirely in the general-purpose memory and logic fabric of Xilinx FPGAs.

In this video you will learn about the Microblaze and how to create a simple Hello World using Microblaze and Vivado. We will use the IP integrator to establish the architecture of the Soft core processor
Generating a Microblaze using TCL commands in Vivado3:45
In the last lecture we learnt how to create a microblaze soft processor in Vivado IP integrator. We found that it took us over 10 minutes to draw the blocks and configure the blocks and connect the diagram to the top level file. In this lecture you will learn how to create a soft processor using the TCL commands in vivado to generate the microblaze processor in under 1 minute
Learn VHDL by Example3:43
Check out this cool link to learn VHDL through excellent test programs.

Requirements

Vivado Design Suite 2015.2 or higher
Basic Knowledge of VHDL
A 7 Series Xilinx FPGA Development Kit (Artix, Kintex or Virtex)
PC with Internet connection
Digital Design Experience
6 Series FPGA's are not supported in Vivado

Description

Note! This course price will increase to $210 as of 1st February 2019 from $200. The price will increase regularly due to updated content. Get this course while it is still low.

LATEST: Course Updated For January 2019 OVER 2135+ SATISFIED STUDENTS HAVE ALREADY ENROLLED IN THIS COURSE!

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Do you want to learn the new Xilinx Development Environment called Vivado Design Suite? Are you migrating from the old ISE environment to Vivado? Or are you new to FPGA's? This course will teach you all the fundamentals of the Vivado Design Suite in the shortest time so that you can get started developing on FPGA's.

Now why should you take this course when Xilinx Official Partners already offer training? Most of their course are held bi-annually which means you will have to wait at most 6 months before starting the basic training. Also these courses can cost over thousands of dollars.

I am an FPGA Designer with a Masters Degree in Electronic Engineering. I have over 7300 students on Udemy. This course is designed to help you design, simulate and implement HDL code in Vivado through practical and easy to understand labs. You will learn all the fundamentals through practice as you follow along with the training. Together we will build a strong foundation in FPGA Development with this training for beginners. This Course will enable you to:

Build an effective FPGA design.
Use proper HDL coding techniques
Make good pin assignments
Set basic XDC constraints
Use the Vivado to build, synthesize, implement, and download a design to your FPGA.

Training Duration:

1 hour

Skills Gained

After Completing this Training, you will know how to:

Design for 7 series+ FPGAs
Use the Project Manager to start a new project
Identify the available Vivado IDE design flows (project based)
Identify file sets such as HDL, XDC and simulation
Analyze designs by using Schematic viewer, and Hierarchical viewer
Synthesize and implement a simple HDL design
Build custom IP cores with the IP Integrator utility
Build a Block RAM (BRAM) memory module and simulate the IP core
Create a microblaze processor from scratch with a UART module
Use the primary Tcl Commands to Generate a Microblaze Processor
Describe how an FPGA is configured.

Skills Gained

This course only costs less than 1% of the Official Xilinx Partner Training Courses which has similar content. Not only will you save on money but you will save on Time. Similar courses usually run over 2 days. This course, however, you will be able to complete in under an hour, depending on your learning speed.

You will receive a verifiable certificate of completion upon finishing the course. We also offer a full Udemy 30 Day Money Back Guarantee if you are not happy with this course, so you can learn with no risk to you.

See you inside this course.

Who this course is for:

Digital designers who have a working knowledge of HDL (VHDL) and who are new to Xilinx FPGAs
Existing Xilinx ISE users who have no previous experience or training with the Xilinx PlanAhead suite and little or no knowledge of Artix-7, Kintex-7 or Virtex-7 devices.
Engineers who are already familiar with Xilinx 7-series devices
Designers who are already using Vivado for design should not take this course unless they are struggling with the basics.
Take this course if you want save $2200 in training costs of similar training material

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Introduction to Vivado3 lectures • 9min

Lab 14 lectures • 26min

Lab 22 lectures • 12min

Lab 33 lectures • 18min

Conclusion and Bonus Section3 lectures • 9min

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