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Accelerate FPGA Designer Productivity with ISE Design Suite
Date and Time: November 17th, 2009
Location: Your Desktop
Webcast Overview:
From I/O planning and design entry, through implementation and verification, the ISE® Design Suite can help you overcome typical bottlenecks toward achieving your demanding requirements of performance, power, and cost in less time.
Webcast Attendees will learn :
- How to leverage Xilinx exclusive tools, technologies, and IP within the ISE Design Suite to achieve their development goals
- How to accelerate overall design process, especially for high-speed serial applications, using the ISE Design Suite: Logic Edition
Presented by:
- Mark Goosman, Senior Product Marketing Manager
| Virtex-6/Spartan-6 FPGAs | ||
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| Title | Description | Recording Info. |
| Create faster, less expensive, and lower power memory interfaces with Xilinx Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGAs | With the development of next generation communications, networking, and consumer electronics products, the desire for higher memory performance and density continues to grow. At the same time, consumers and manufacturers are demanding solutions that offer lower initial costs as well as lower operating costs, preferably with less environmental impact. In this webinar, Xilinx introduces the memory interface solutions for Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 devices and explain how to use these solutions to get the most out of your external memory in your next FPGA design | Duration: 60 mins |
| Xilinx Power Estimation in a High-Level DSP Design Flow | This webcast provides helpful information on how to better manage power in your next FPGA design. Tim Vanevenhoven, Senior Marketing Manager for Xilinx DSP Tools and IP will discuss how technologies included in the ISE® Design Suite 11 can help you better control power within your FPGA design, including power estimation, optimization, and analysis. | Duration: 13.03 mins |
| Creating Power-Optimized Designs with Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGAs | As an alternative to ASICs and ASSPs, FPGAs enable manufacturers of digital electronic systems to accelerate new products to market and increase product differentiation while reducing cost and risk. The latest generation of FPGAs offer increases in performance, capacity, and built-in capabilities that make them suitable for implementing a greater portion of critical system-level functionality. | Duration: 60 mins |
| Achieve Greater Productivity and Ease of Use with Targeted Design Platforms enabled by Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGA Families | The Xilinx Virtex®-6 and Spartan®-6 FPGA families are the programmable silicon foundation for Targeted Design Platforms that enable system designers to increase productivity and minimize development costs in applications targeting wireless, wired, audio, video, automotive, security and many other markets. The mix of programmable logic and on-chip configurable hard IP built using the latest process technology enables Xilinx Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGAs families to deliver twice the capacity, reduce system costs by up to 50%, and lower power consumption by as much as 65% compared to previous families. | Duration: 60 mins |
| Virtex-5 | ||
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| Title | Description | Recording Info. |
| Designing High-Performance TCP/IP Off-load and Protocol Bridging Applications with Virtex-5 FXT and TXT FPGA | This technical presentation will help designers to understand the basics of FPGA-based high performance designs. It will primarily focus on FPGA implementation of efficient scalable architecture to perform 10G TCP/IP offload on ingress data through a XAUI interface. The design also covers fundamentals of a DMA engine to egress the data through a PCIe interface into the system memory for further processing by microprocessors. System design fundamentals on understanding tradeoffs, performance bottlnecks, hardware vs. software offloads, maintaining efficient data flow, scaling the architecture for the future, etc. will also be addressed. | Duration: 60 mins |
| Implementing PCI Express v2.0 Compliant Designs with Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs | This webcast reviews what is new in PCI Express v2.0 , Design challenges in the PCI Express Systems and how Xilinx can help you with the challenges | Duration: 60 mins |
| Building robust 6.5Gbps serial links with Virtex-5 FPGAs: Design considerations for first-pass success | In this webcast we review the challenges that engineers face when designing multi-gigabit interfaces and present solutions for ensuring the signal integrity required for successful system design. | Duration: 60 mins |
| Designing with the Embedded PowerPC 440 in Xilinx's Virtex®-5 | Webcast | Duration: 60 mins |
| Achieve Breakthrough Performance with the New PowerPC® Processing Block Architecture | The new Virtex®-5 FXT family of Xilinx FPGAs was developed specifically to enable integration of sophisticated embedded systems on a single, flexible and high performance platform. In this webcast, Xilinx will introduce the high system performance and bandwidth advantages of the innovative PowerPC 440 blocks embedded in the new Virtex-5 FXT platform FPGAs. We will show how to build customized embedded systems to unique and exacting design requirements, while lowering both system cost and power consumption. FPGA-based embedded processing designs, reduce component count, board size and ultimately simplify the Bill of Materials without giving up performance. | Duration: 60 mins |
| Designing High-Performance TCP/IP Off-load and Protocol Bridging Applications with Virtex-5 FXT and TXT FPGAs | Webcast | Duration: 60 mins |
| Multi Gigabit Serial I/O with Virtex-5 FXT | Webcast | Duration: 60 mins |
| Exploding Bandwidth?New Virtex-5 TXT FPGAs for High Bandwidth Bridging | In this webcast we will explore the unique challenges of implementing different network line card architectures and survey available architectural options. We will also Review IP offerings for key protocols such as 100Gig Ethernet, 40Gig Ethernet, Interlaken, SFI-5, OTU-3, OC-768, and others. | Duration: 60 mins |
| Power Optimizing Tips for Virtex-5 FPGA Designs | This webcast will go through the factors contributing to power consumption in an FPGA design. It will explain how power is closely tied to the thermal consideration and reliability of the system. Finally, it will provide tips on how to optimize design for power consumption through changes in the FPGA environment and leveraging the FPGA features and tool options. | Duration: 60 mins |
| Xilinx Virtex®-5 FPGA Power Optimization &Power Design Guidelines | Learn how to leverage the dedicated blocks in Virtex®-5, FPGAs using the Xilinx Power Estimator (XPE) tool . | Duration: 60 mins |
| Virtex-5 Power Estimation and Measurement Demonstration | In this demonstration, we look at the steps required to create an accurate power estimate for Virtex®-5 devices using the XPower Estimator (XPE) tool. We then demonstrate the low power consumption characteristics of Virtex-5 devices by taking actual measurements on an ML550 board, the preferred platform for making detailed power measurements. |
Format: WMV |
| Extended Spartan-3A FPGAs | ||
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| Title | Description | Recording Info. |
| Low Power Design With Xilinx and Linear Technology. | Webcast | Duration: 60 mins |
| Low Power FPGA and Analog Solutions with Xilinx Spartan®-3 Generation FPGAs. | In this Chalk Talk Webcast, Mark Moran of Xilinx teams up with Afshin Odabaee of Linear Technology to discuss the on-chip power management modes, power-saving techniques, and power management solution options in Spartan-3 generation FPGAs. | Duration: 60 mins |
| Lowering System Cost Made Easy With Extended Spartan-3A | Webcast | Duration: 60 mins |
| Lowest System Cost with Xilinx Spartan-3 Generation FPGAs | In today's world consumer prices are projected to continue to decline, and now more than ever you need a low cost solution. During this Chalk Talk Webcast, Amelia Dalton of FPGA Journal chats with Mark Moran of Xilinx about how designing with Spartan® -3 Generation FPGAs helps you to reduce your total system cost for high-volume applications. | Duration: 60 mins |
| Lowering System Cost Made Easy with Extended Spartan-3A Family | This chalk talk describes the benefits of the Extended Spatan-3A FPGA families and how they benefit customer designs by lowering total cost by increasing logic efficiency. | Format: WMV Duration: 20.24 mins |
| Spartan-3A Starter Kit | This presentation shows key examples of how the Spartan®-3A Starter Kit delivers instant access to the powerful Spartan-3A FPGA device features of suspend power-saving mode, high-speed I/O options, DDR2 SDRAM memory interface, commodity flash configuration support, and FPGA/IP protection using Device DNA. | Format: WMV Size: 41MB Duration: 24 mins |
| System Performance Demo using Spartan-3 PCIe Starter Kit | This performance demo, based on the Spartan®-3 FPGA PCIe® Starter Kit, shows system throughput of the PCI Express link in a 1-lane configuration. | Format: WMV Size: 20MB Duration: 17 mins |
| Spartan-3 PCI Express Starter Kit | This compelling demonstration includes two functional design demos using the Xilinx Spartan®-3 FPGA and the PCI Express® Core, an in-depth view of the board architecture, and an overview of the kit features and capabilities. | Format: WMV Size: 35MB Duration: 20 mins |
| Design Tools | ||
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| Getting Started | ||
| Title | Description | Recording Info. |
ISE Design Suite 11 – Software Products and Licensing
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This video will introduce you to the different configurations in the ISE Design Suite and describe the different Xilinx licensing options. | Format: WMV Duration: 36 mins |
| ISE Design Suite: Logic Edition – A Quick Tour | This video demonstration provides a quick tour of the key highlights and capabilities of the ISE Design Suite: Logic Edition and how it is used in typical design scenarios. After watching this video, the viewer should have a good understanding of the main steps to get a design through the entire tool chain: from HDL entry, to place and route, all the way through to bitstream generation. Common tasks of pin-assignment, timing constraint specification will also be covered. The viewer will see the most relevant places to analyze and visualize the results of processing. | Format: WMV Duration: 36mins |
| Quick Tour of the PlanAhead Design Environment | With the release of the ISE Design Suite 11, all ISE Design Suite configurations include the PlanAhead design analysis tool. This video highlights new features and technologies to help you get the most out of PlanAhead. | Format: WMV Duration: 33 mins |
| How to Use ISE Simulator (ISim) | This short video demonstration shows how to use ISE Simulator (ISim) for simulating an HDL-based design. The demonstration goes over basic simulation steps in order to effectively verify design functionality via HDL simulation. | Format: WMV Duration: 31 mins |
| How to Debug a Design Using ChipScope Pro | This video takes you through the various methods of adding ChipScope cores to an FPGA design, implementing the design, and interacting with the ChipScope cores in the design in the device-under-test. This video also highlights new ChipScope features that are available in the ISE Design Suite 11 release. | Format: WMV Duration: 51 mins |
| ISE Design Suite – RTL / Technology Schematic Viewers | The ISE Design Suite 11 introduces a new RTL / Technology Viewer, which fully integrated in ISE design environment. This new Viewer has faster schematic rendering as well as many debug features. The new key features include: logic cones extraction, selective block analysis, return to previous schematic, support of multiple schematics of the same netlist etc. This video demonstration will highlight new RTL / Technology Viewer features and how to use them for design analysis. | Format: WMV Duration: 23 mins |
| An Overview of Device Configuration using iMPACT | This video describes the configuration and verification capabilities available within the iMPACT tool. Users will be shown the configuration methods for many supported modes and targets, as well as programming file generation for a variety of formats. The iMPACT GUI and the redesigned PROM File Formatter will be highlighted, but batch/command line features will also be demonstrated. | Format: WMV Duration: 15 mins |
| What's New | ||
| Title | Description | Recording Info. |
| Productivity Enhancements in the ISE Design Suite: Logic Edition 11 | This video demonstration covers some of the main highlights of what is new in ISE Design Suite 11: Logic Edition. It will discuss key improvements made in all aspects of the tool chain from ISE Project Navigator, the implementation tools and integration of ChipScope and PlanAhead | Format: WMV Duration: 37 mins |
| What’s New in PlanAhead 11.1 | This video demonstration describes the new features available with the latest release of the PlanAhead design analysis tool. This demonstration highlights the improved design flow integration of PlanAhead with the ISE Project Navigator, synthesis and implementation, I/O pin planning, and verification with ChipScope pro. | Format: WMV Duration: 33 mins |
| Title | Description | Recording Info. |
| ISE Design Suite 11 – The Design Methodology for Targeted Design Platforms | Dramatic shifts in the economic and technical landscape combined with demanding technical requirements are driving the ever-increasing adoption of FPGAs in the heart of digital electronic systems. ‘Targeted Design Platforms’, built on an FPGA foundation, directly address the competing needs of higher performance, streamlined power consumption and reduced system cost by integrating software and hardware components that enable designers to accelerate innovation. | Duration: 60 mins |
| Memory Interface Design with MIG 2.0 | This 31 minute video product demonstration provides an overview of the Xilinx solutions for memory interfaces and the features and benefits of the Memory Interface Generator (MIG) 2.0 design tool. | Format: WMV Size: 33MB Duration: 31 mins |
| Build a MicroBlaze Custom Embedded Processing System in Just Minutes | This demonstration clearly presents how to use the award winning Platform Studio tool suite to customize a MicroBlaze™ soft processing solution, including peripheral selection and co-processing acceleration. | Format: WMV Size: 92MB Duration: 58 mins |
| Designing Embedded Systems With Linux and Low Cost FPGAs | Through lowest system cost, cost-efficient logic design and low-cost complex computation and embedded processing, this chalk talk examines how Extended Spartan-3A FPGAs are the lowest total cost solution available. | Format: SWF Duration: 20.24 mins |
| I/O Pin Planning with PinAhead Technology | This video demonstration explains the process of I/O assignments of the PlanAhead pin planning capabilities, highlighting the process of managing the entire I/O pin planning process for early and optimized port management for better FPGA and PCB design results. | Format: WMV Duration: 26 mins |
| ISE Power Solution | This video is about the ISE software solution designed to help our customers to plan, analyze and optimize the power consumed by Xilinx FPGAs | Format: WMV Duration: 15 mins |
Optimize Results Using Design Goals & Strategies and SmartXplorer
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Video Demonstration | Format: WMV Duration: 31 mins |
| Debugging Designs with PlanAhead and ChipScope Pro | This video demonstrates the various methods of adding ChipScope Pro cores to an FPGA design, implementing the design, and interacting with the ChipScope Pro cores in the design in the device-under-test. This video also highlights new ChipScope Pro features that are available in the ISE Design Suite 11 release. | Format: WMV Duration: 21 mins |
Improve Design Performance with the PlanAhead Design and Analysis Tool
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Xilinx PlanAhead Design and Analysis Tool | Format: WMV Duration: 35 mins |
| Using Multiple Constraint Files | Video Demonstration | Format: WMV Duration: 12 mins |
| Using 7Circuits and PlanAhead for FPGA-Based System Design | Designers of FPGA-based systems often struggle with achieving pin assignment closure that satisfies the needs of both the FPGA and the PCB on which the FPGA’s reside. Used together, PlanAhead and 7Circuits offer a compelling solution, ensuring that the FPGA’s internal resources have been properly utilized and that the chosen pin assignments are optimized for PCB routing. This video explores the challenges designers of FPGA-based systems face and, through a short demo, how a 7Circuits/PlanAhead flow can assist the team in overcoming those challenges. | Format: WMV Duration: 18 mins |
| Xilinx Embedded Technologies | ||
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| Title | Description | Recording Info. |
| Using Xilinx Platform Studio in ISE Design Suite 11 | In addition to new features in the Xilinx Platform Studio (XPS) 11, this video describes the recommended hardware and software design flows. Viewers will also learn the steps required to export hardware projects to the Software Development Kit. | Duration: 10 mins |
| Using Base System Builder in ISE Design Suite 11 | This video will demonstrate how Base System Builder (BSB) can quickly create an embedded processor subsystem for use in your Xilinx FPGA design. | Duration: 8 mins |
| Introduction to the Xilinx Software Development Kit | This video explains features and benefits of the Software Development Kit available in the ISE Design Suite: Embedded Edition and as a stand-alone product. | Duration: 5 mins |
| Quick Start Embedded Software Development With MicroBlaze and Spartan-3A FPGAs | Webcast | Duration: 60 mins |
| Embedded Networking With MicroBlaze and Spartan-3A FPGAs | Webcast | Duration: 60 mins |
| Designing Embedded Systems With Linux and Low-cost FPGAs | In this Chalk Talk Webcast, Xilinx and LynuxWorks chat with Amelia Dalton of FPGA Journal about the increasing challenges of designing connected embedded systems and how to solve some of them with flexible hardware and software platforms. | Duration: 60 mins |
| DSP Solutions | ||
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| Title | Description | Recording Info. |
| Power Estimation in a High-Level DSP Design Flow | Join Amelia Dalton as she talks with Tim Vanevenhoven of Xilinx about new methods for estimating and reducing power consumption in FPGA-based DSP designs. | Duration: 13 mins |
| DSP System Design on FPGAs Using the ISE® Design Suite 10.1 | Webcast | Duration: 60 mins |
| Improve DSP Design Productivity Using ISE® and System Generator for DSP 10.1 | This video product demonstration provides an overview of the new integration between Xilinx System Generator and Xilinx ISE® Project Navigator design environment. | Format: WMV Size: 9MB Duration: 10 mins |
| Accelerating FPGA Designs with AccelDSP™ and System Generator for DSP™ | This 30 minute video demonstration gives an overview of the DSP design tools offered by Xilinx. We begin in AccelDSP™ with a floating-point MATLAB® algorithm, and generate a VHDL or Verilog model along with a test bench. | Format: WMV Size: 49MB Duration: 30 mins |
| System Generator for DSP | System Generator for DSP—our high-level modeling environment for DSP data paths—yields performance and efficiency comparable to hand-crafted designs. | Format: WMV Size: 72MB Duration: 51 mins |
| FPGAs for Signal Processing | This Demo shows you how an FPGA device can be used for signal processing and provides an overview of the Xilinx DSP solution including the IP cores that are available as algorithms and DSP software. | Format: WMV Size: 36MB Duration: 39 mins |
| Spectrum Channelization | This module explains spectrum channelization for wired and wireless applications using a number of examples built using the Xilinx System Generator for DSP and the Xilinx DSP IP library. | Format: WMV Size: 29MB Duration: 27 mins |
| Designing QAM Demodulators | This compelling Demo shows the implementation of a QAM receiver including both synchronization and adaptive channel equalization. | Format: WMV Size: 36MB Duration: 30 mins |
| Spectrum Channelization | This module explains spectrum channelization for wired and wireless applications using a number of examples built using the Xilinx System Generator for DSP and the Xilinx DSP IP library. | Format: WMV Size: 29MB Duration: 27 mins |
| Xilinx DSP Development Using System Generator | This presentation will show how you can significantly enhance productivity when developing signal processing systems using Xilinx System Generator. | Format: WMV Size: 18MB Duration: 14 mins |
| Hardware Co-Simulation Basics using System Generator for DSP | This video explains the advantages and basic steps for performing hardware co-simulation using System Generator for DSP including a description of available interface protocols. | Format: WMV Size: 15MB Duration: 13 mins |
| Real-time Hardware Co-Simulation | This video demonstration describes the steps required to perform real-time hardware co-simulation using System Generator for DSP and the ISE Design Suite: System Edition. An example is provided targeting the Xilinx ML605 Targeted Design Platform. | Format: WMV Size: 13MB Duration: 11 mins |
| Simulink-Based FPGA Power Analysis for System Generator for DSP | This video describes the integration of the Xilinx XPower Analyzer with System Generator and how users can use this combination to analyze power within their DSP design. An example is provided showing a complex filter targeting a Virtex-6 device to show how users can evaluate different filter architectures and obtain power analysis in addition to other QoR metrics. | Format: WMV Size: 14MB Duration: 12 mins |
| System Generator Deployment and Installation on Linux | This video demonstrates the installation of System Generator for DSP on the Linux platform. This includes an overview of the installation options available for individual users and system administrators as well as managing startup script files. | Format: WMV Size: 10MB Duration: 8 mins |
| Applications | ||
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| Title | Description | Recording Info. |
| Accelerate System Design Innovation and Slash Infrastructure Development Time with FPGA-Based Targeted Design Platforms | Base Targeted Design Platforms combine with optimized development tools to enable simpler and smarter design methodologies for creating FPGA-based system-on-chip solutions targeting a wide variety of markets and applications. | Duration: 60 mins |
| Digital Wireless Test Revolution as Illustrated by DigRF V3 | Spartan® &Virtex® platform FPGAs, provide the versatility required to support new over air standards | Duration: 60 mins |
| Connectivity | ||
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| Title | Description | Recording Info. |
| Addressing the Performance Bottleneck in Modern SOC Design - Serial IO Connectivity | This web seminar covers Xilinx's comprehensive serial IO portfolio which addresses challenging System-on-Chip requirements across the serial performance spectrum, from mainstream through ultra high-end applications. In addition to implementing optimized transceivers across high-volume FPGA applications, Xilinx reveals how we are extending the high-performance end of the serial connectivity portfolio. | Duration: 60 mins |
| Direct Memory Access (DMA) for PCI Express on Xilinx Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGAs | PCI Express® has increased the chip-to-chip bandwidth possible for PCI based systems. With PCI Express v2.0, also commonly referred to as Gen2, becoming mainstream this year these bandwidth intensive applications can be tackled with Xilinx Virtex-6 Integrated Blocks for PCI Express. Xilinx second generation of integrated blocks builds on the experience from Virtex-5 to deliver the most robust and extremely high-performance PCI Express interface. | Duration: 60 mins |
| The Xilinx Multi-gigabit Transceiver Portfolio: Choosing and Using the Right Transceiver for Serial interfaces at 3Gbps, 6Gbps, 10Gbps, and Beyond | Serial I/O provides high bandwidth for connecting chips, boards, and boxes while consuming less power and PCB real estate than traditional parallel interface technologies. The latest generation of Xilinx FPGAs offers a portfolio of transceivers that deliver power-efficient, cost-efficient support for mainstream and emerging serial interface standards at 3Gbps, 6Gbps, 10Gbps, and beyonds | Duration: 60 mins |
