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WFP033 – FPGA I/Os
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Episode 33 of the World of FPGA Podcast. Signals have to get into the FPGA and out of the FPGA. Here we need input/output pins. Here we will have a closer look.
Content of this Episode
I/O pad
Logic block
I/O standards
Single-Ended Standards
Differential Standards
Key Considerations for I/O Standards
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WFP032 – FPGA Routing
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Episode 32 of the World of FPGA Podcast. We have an internal digital highway inside an FPGA to connect all the different blocks. This highway has a lot of interesting features.
Content of this Episode
Routing Resources
Connection lines
Connection boxes
Switching boxes
But it depends
Routing process
Routing Algorithms
Routing key challenges
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WFP031 – FPGA Memory
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Episode 31 of the World of FPGA Podcast. Memory is essential for a lot of things in your FPGA design. And FPGAs have a lot of different memory.
Content of this Episode
Flip-Flops
SRAM blocks
Ultra RAM
Flash Memory
High Bandwidth Memory
Memory-Controller
External Memory
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WFP030 – FPGA Conference 2025
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Episode 30 of the World of FPGA Podcast. It was time for a little trip again. I went to Munich to the three-day FPGA conference of PLC2 and the Vogel Verlag.
Content of this Episode
3 day FPGA Conference in Munich
FPGA Conference the biggest event in Europe
Some facts
3 days
430 Participants
128 Lectures
110 Speakers
39 Exhibitors
This year triple anniversary
40 years FPGA
30 years PLC2
10 years FPGA Conference
All my visited talks
Welcome to the Post-European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Era
FPGAs and the Cyber Resilience Act
Cyber Resilience Act: Planning your Security Future
Making Simple FPGA Testbenches – Utilising Important Quality Measures
A Cuckoo Hash-Based CAM Architecture for FPGA and ASIC Implementations
Elevate your Design: Security and Power Efficiency with AMD Spartan UltraScale+ FPGAs
Faster Change of Probe Signals using the Vivado Logic Analyzer
Warning! Your FPGAs & SoC FPGAs are Under Attack
Functional Safety for Hardware and Software
Security, Regulations and FPGA-Based Systems – How to Make Your System Secure
Verify the Bits that Fly : A Demonstration of Bitstream to HDL Equivalence Checking
Why VUnit?
Managing and Versioning Gateware Source Code on Git with Hog
A Baseboard Management Controller for FPGA/SoC Board Supervision and Faster Bringup
GateMate FPGA: Qualification for Radiation-Tolerant Applications
GateMate FPGA: High-Speed Transceiver (SerDes) Hands-On
Project-Based and Non-Project-Based Scripting in Vivado
Multi-Run Management Using Vivado
How to Drive Parallel High-Speed Circuits from an AMD FPGA
Next FPGA conference is from 30 June – 2 July 2026
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WFP029 – FPGA DSP
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Episode 29 of the World of FPGA Podcast. How can FPGAs calculate so fast? The secret inside an FPGA is a digital signal processing block.
Content of this Episode
What does DSP stand for?
Common parts inside an DSP block
Function representation
Important facts
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WFP028 – FPGA Talk #1 FPGA companies
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Episode 28 of the World of FPGA Podcast. Talking about our favorite FPGA companies.
Welcome to the FPGA Talk with the new co-host Glenn Kirilow
Content of this Episode
Feedback
FPGA companies
AMD or XILINX
Lattice
Altera
Cologne Chip
GoWin
Atmel, Microsemi and Microchip
Use other FPGAs in future
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WFP027 – FPGA Slices
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Episode 27 of the World of FPGA Podcast. We will dive deep into the FPGA architecture. This episode is about slices.
Content of this Episode
What are slices?
Difference between FPGA manufacturer
Configuration
Housekeeping
Links to older episodes
WFP005 – Inside FPGA – basics
WFP006 – Inside FPGA – specialties
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WFP026 – FPGA Talk Intro
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Episode 26 of the World of FPGA Podcast. About the hosts. Who are we, what do we do and our FPGA journey.
Welcome to the FPGA Talk with the new co-host Glenn Kirilow
Content of this Episode
Introduction Glenn
Introduction David
Contact between Glenn and David
First FPGA projects
Way to VHDL
PCB Software
Time distribution at work
Issue on Spartan 3
Issue on Zynq
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WFP025 – FPGA Implementation
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Episode 25 of the World of FPGA Podcast. Have you ever asked yourself, what happens during FPGA implementation? In this episode I try to give an answer.
Content of this Episode
Placement
Routing
After routing process
Similarity to a PCB layout
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WFP024 – FPGA Synthesis
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Episode 24 of the World of FPGA Podcast. Have you ever asked yourself, what happens during FPGA synthesis? In this episode I try to give an answer.
Content of this Episode
What is a netlist?
Synthesis tool
Elaboration Substep
Matching to technology
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WFP023 – FPGA Development Process
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Episode 23 of the World of FPGA Podcast. FPGA development is a lot of fun. But also think about an appropriate development process.
Content of this Episode
Electronics development process
Validation vs. Verification
Difference to the FPGA development process
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WFP022 – VHDL Testbench
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Episode 22 of the World of FPGA Podcast. VHDL Testbenches have many interesting features to simulate and test your VHDL module. Let’s have a look into these functions.
Content of this Episode
VHDL Testbenches
Using data files
Multiple modules
Automatic tests
More automation
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WFP021 – 2024 Review and Outlook
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Episode 21 of the World of FPGA Podcast. We are looking back on 2024 and then we try an outlook into 2025.
Content of this Episode
Welcome in 2024
Welcome back in this podcast
Review of 2024
some private facts
Business
Outlook into 2025
Business
Private things
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WFP020 – Simulation
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Episode 20 of the World of FPGA Podcast. Let us talk about simulations and their benefits for your FPGA development projects.
Content of this Episode
Simulations in general
Simulations in FPGA development
Benefits for your FPGA development projects
How to start with simulations
What are the boundaries of simulation
Simulate a whole design or only modules
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WFP019 – 2023 Review and Outlook
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Episode 19 of the World of FPGA Podcast. We are looking back on 2023 and then we try an outlook into 2024.
Content of this Episode
Happy New Year and all the best for 2024
Review of 2023
some private facts
Business
Outlook into 2024
Business
Private things
Next webinar in February 2024
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WFP018 – Debugging an ARM
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Episode 18 of the World of FPGA Podcast. In addition to the last episode we will now have a look into the process of debugging an ARM core software.
Content of this Episode
Debugging an ARM (in a SoC)
Use UART and printf
Debug your bare metal application in Vitis
Debug your Linux application in Vitis
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WFP017 – Debugging an FPGA
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Episode 17 of the World of FPGA Podcast. Let’s dive deeper into the debugging stuff. There are different ways of debugging an FPGA and the logic inside.
Content of this Episode
Debugging an FPGA
Observe signal outputs
Bring some internal signals to outer world
Using a debug core
Special case for ILA
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WFP016 – FPGA Conference 2023
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Episode 16 of the World of FPGA Podcast. It was time for a little trip again. This time I went to Munich to the three-day FPGA conference of PLC2 and the Vogel Verlag.
Content of this Episode
3 day FPGA Conference in Munich
A little insight
My attended lectures
Sessions on the first day
Linux Build Methodologies: PetaLinux vs. Yocto Flow
Coverage (aka Requirement Coverage)
Using property descriptions to formally verify FPGA design code
Synthesizing a Vivado Project on GitLab-CI and Deploying to an FPGA Board
Secure method of enabling multiple design in FPGA
Constraining Multiple Clock Domains
AMD-Xilinx: Dynamic Function Exchange with Device Tree Overlay
GDBServer in Hardware for VexRiscv Processing Systems
Next Generation of High-Speed Interfaces for Vision Applications
Sessions on the second day
Demystify a Vitis Embedded Acceleration Platform
MicroBlaze – A most flexible processor for FPGAs and MPSoCs
Self organizing administration tool to control FPGA designs
Fundamentals of Timing Analysis and Why No FPGA Design Can Do Without It
How to crash 100+ AWS FPGA instances and how to insert Trojans into bitstreams
Demonstration Setup for HashCache
Sessions on the third day
Do FPGA designers and hardware designers need to talk? A practical approach to shortening the project timeline
How your FPGA design decisions affect PCB board performance
Agilex SoC Architecture
Turning your FPGA into a fast multichannel ADC
PCIe, MIPI CSI-2, HDMI and DDR memory across platforms from an Open Source perspective
Constant On-Time (COT) Control for FPGA High-Current Power Supplies
Hardware attacks on FPGA: An overview of threats and security mechanisms
Next FPGA conference is from July 2nd to 4th, 2024
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WFP015 – Bootloader
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Episode 15 of the World of FPGA Podcast. To start up a Xilinx Zynq SoC many steps are required. To get an overview we will talk today about bootloader.
Content of this Episode
Stage-0 Boot (also known as BootROM)
First Stage Bootloader (FSBL)
Second Stage Bootloader
Linux Kernel
Init
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WFP Meetup 2023
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Special Episode of the World of FPGA Podcast.
I want to make a meetup of members of my audience and this will happen in Munich while the FPGA Conference 2023.
On the 5th of July 2023 at 7:30 pm we can meet near to the conference hotel in a restaurant.
I will reserve some spots, so please send me an email if you want to participate: info@world-of-fpga.com
Important note: Everyone pay their own bill.
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