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 And for now come into our Newsletter and also follow us on LinkedIn. The post WFP033 – FPGA I/Os appeared first on World of FPGA by David Kirchner.

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 And for now come into our Newsletter and also follow us on LinkedIn. The post WFP032 – FPGA Routing appeared first on World of FPGA by David Kirchner.

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 And for now come into our Newsletter and also follow us on LinkedIn. The post WFP031 – FPGA Memory appeared first on World of FPGA by David Kirchner.

It was time for a little trip again. I went to Munich to the three-day FPGA conference of PLC2 and the Vogel Verlag. * 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 And for now come into our Newsletter and also follow us on LinkedIn. The post WFP030 – FPGA Conference 2025 appeared first on World of FPGA by David Kirchner.

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 And for now come into our Newsletter and also follow us on LinkedIn. The post WFP029 – FPGA DSP appeared first on World of FPGA by David Kirchner.

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 And for now come into our Newsletter and also follow us on LinkedIn. The post WFP028 – FPGA Talk #1 FPGA companies appeared first on World of FPGA by David Kirchner.

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 And for now come into our Newsletter and also follow us on LinkedIn. The post WFP027 – FPGA Slices appeared first on World of FPGA by David Kirchner.

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 And for now come into our Newsletter and also follow us on LinkedIn. The post WFP026 – FPGA Talk Intro appeared first on World of FPGA by David Kirchner.

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 And for now come into our Newsletter and also follow us on LinkedIn. The post WFP025 – FPGA Implementation appeared first on World of FPGA by David Kirchner.

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 And for now come into our Newsletter and also follow us on LinkedIn. The post WFP024 – FPGA Synthesis appeared first on World of FPGA by David Kirchner.

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 And for now come into our Newsletter and also follow us on LinkedIn. The post WFP023 – FPGA Development Process appeared first on World of FPGA by David Kirchner.

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 And for now come into our Newsletter and also follow us on LinkedIn. The post WFP022 – VHDL Testbench appeared first on World of FPGA by David Kirchner.

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 And for now come into our Newsletter and also follow us on LinkedIn. The post WFP021 – 2024 Review and Outlook appeared first on World of FPGA by David Kirchner.

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 hole design or only modules And for now come into our Newsletter and also follow us on LinkedIn. The post WFP020 – Simulation appeared first on World of FPGA by David Kirchner.

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 And for now come into our Newsletter and also follow us on LinkedIn. The post WFP019 – 2023 Review and Outlook appeared first on World of FPGA by David Kirchner.

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 And for now come into our Newsletter and also follow us on LinkedIn. The post WFP018 – Debugging an ARM appeared first on World of FPGA by David Kirchner.

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 And for now come into our Newsletter and also follow us on LinkedIn. The post WFP017 – Debugging an FPGA appeared first on World of FPGA by David Kirchner.

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 And for now come into our Newsletter and also follow us on LinkedIn. The post WFP016 – FPGA Conference 2023 appeared first on World of FPGA by David Kirchner.

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 And for now come into our Newsletter and also follow us on LinkedIn. The post WFP015 – Bootloader appeared first on World of FPGA by David Kirchner.

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. The post WFP Meetup 2023 appeared first on World of FPGA by David Kirchner.