VSD - Mixed-signal RISC-V based SoC on FPGA

Name: VSD - Mixed-signal RISC-V based SoC on FPGA
Rating: 3.8 (7 reviews)

FPGA flow for Mixed Signal SoC with RISC-V based core and PLL IP

(7 ratings)

94 students

Created by Kunal Ghosh, Shivani Shah

Last updated 7/2021

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What you'll learn

FPGA flow vs ASIC flow
Basic mixed-signal RISC-V based SoC RTL design and simulations
FPGA Synthesis, bit-stream generation and simulation

Requirements

VSD - RISC-V ISA course on Udemy
VSD - Pipelining RISC-V using TL-Verilog course on Udemy

Description

This webinar helps you get started with a basic mixed-signal FPGA flow, which can be extended to any complex SoC.

VSD and RedwoodEDA conducts 5-day RISC-V based MYTH (Microprocessors for You in Thirty Hours) workshop using transaction level Verilog on Makerchip platform. For people who have done this workshop can use this webinar as an extension to the 5th Day, where RISC-V pipe-lined CPU coded in TL-Verilog is now converted to verilog language and is a part of a mixed-signal SoC

If you are from ASIC/Physical design back-ground, this webinar will complement your existing work, and you would really get to know similarities and differences between ASIC and FPGA flow, which one is preferred under what conditions and why is it preferred

This single webinar connects VLSI students, analog designers, FPGA designers and ASIC designers. It is also an attempt to bring everyone on the same platform, and serves as a starting point for design verification

Stay tuned for follow-up series of FPGA webinars and 5-day hands-on high intensity FPGA workshop, which will be built around OpenFPGA framework and Makerchip visualization software, that enables the whole community to learn FPGA fundamentals along with labs, without actually having a physical FPGA board.

Innovation at its best

All the best and happy learning

Who this course is for:

Beginner in FPGA design
Beginner in VLSI design
Experienced Physical Design and STA engineers

Kunal Ghosh

Digital and Sign-off expert at VLSI System Design(VSD)

4.2 Instructor Rating
13,216 Reviews
44,749 Students
40 Courses

Tips on order in which you need to learn VLSI and become a CHAMPION:

If I would had been you, I would had started with Physical Design and Physical design webinar course where I understand the entire flow first, then would have moved to CTS-1 and CTS-2 to look into details of how the clock is been built.

Then, as you all know how crosstalk impacts functioning at lower nodes, I would gone for Signal Integrity course to understand impacts of scaling and fix them. Once I do that, I would want to know how to analyze performance of my design and I would have gone for STA-1, STA-2 and Timing ECO webinar courses, respectively

Once you STA, there’s an internal curiosity which rises, and wants us to understand, what goes inside timing analysis at transistor level. To full-fill that, I would had taken Circuit design and SPICE simulations Part 1 and Part 2 courses.

And finally, to understand pre-placed cells, IP’s and STA in even more detail, I would have taken custom layout course and Library Characterization course

All of above needs to be implemented using a CAD tool and needs to be done faster, for which I would have written TCL or perl scripts. So for that, I would start to learn TCL-Part1 and TCL-Part2 courses, at very beginning or in middle

Finally, if I want to learn RTL and synthesis, from specifications to layout, RISC-V ISA course will teach the best way to define specs for a complex system like microprocessor

Connect with me for more guidance !!

Hope you enjoy the session best of luck for future

Kunal Ghosh is the Director and co-founder of VLSI System Design (VSD) Corp. Pvt. Ltd. Prior to launching VSD in 2017, Kunal held several technical leadership positions at Qualcomm's Test-chip business unit. He joined Qualcomm in 2010. He led the Physical design and STA flow development of 28nm, 16nm test-chips. At 2013, he joined Cadence as Lead Sales Application engineer for Tempus STA tool. Kunal holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India and specialized in VLSI Design & Nanotechnology.

Hands on with Technology @

1) MSM (mobile station mode chips) - MSM chips are used for CDMA modulation/demodulation. It consists of DSP’s and microprocessors for running applications such as web-browsing, video conferencing, multimedia services, etc.

2) Memory test chips - Memory test chips are used to validate functionality of 28nm custom/compiler memory as well as characterize their timing, power and yield.

3) DDR-PHY test chips - DDR-PHY test chips are basically tested for high speed data transfer

4) Timing and physical design Flow development for 130nm MOSFET technology node till 16nm FinFET technology node.

5) “IR aware STA” and “Low power STA”

6) Analyzed STA engine behavior for design size up to 850 million instance count ACADEMIC

1) Research Assistant to Prof. Richard Pinto and Prof. Anil Kottantharayil on “Sub-100nm optimization using Electron Beam Lithography”, which intended to optimize RAITH-150TWO Electron Beam Lithography tool and the process conditions to attain minimum resolution, use the mix-and-match capabilities of the tool for sub-100nm MOSFET fabrication and generate mask plates for feature sizes above 500nm.

2) Research Assistant to with Prof. Madhav Desai, to characterize RTL, generated from C-to-RTL AHIR compiler, in terms of power, performance and area. This was done by passing RTL, generated from AHIR compiler, through standard ASIC tool chain like synthesis and place & route. The resulting netlist out of PNR was characterized using standard software

PUBLICATION

1) “A C-to-RTL Flow as an Energy Efficient Alternative to Embedded Processors in Digital Systems” submitted in the conference “13th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, Architectures, Methods and Tools, DSD 2010, 1-3 September 2010, Lille, France”

2) Concurrent + Distributed MMMC STA for 'N' views

3) Signoff Timing and Leakage Optimization On 18M Instance Count Design With 8000 Clocks and Replicated Modules Using Master Clone Methodology With EDI Cockpit

4) Placement-aware ECO Methodology - No Slacking on Slack

Shivani Shah

Instructor

3.8 Instructor Rating
7 Reviews
94 Students
1 Course

Shivani Shah is currently pursuing her Masters at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore. She has secured her undergraduate degree in the field of Information and Communication Technology from Ahmedabad University. She is working as a Teaching Assistant (TA) at VLSI System Design Corporation Pvt Ltd (VSD). She has a good understanding of digital logic, processor architecture, FPGA designs, caches.