Skill Development council, Islamabad organizes Six Weeks Training Course on Chip Designing (FPGA based Digital Design using Verilog HDL). It is worth mentioning that we have already conducted the subject course in a very successfully manner in which 350 engineers/scientists from different Organizations e.g. NDC, KRL, MTC, PAEC, UET , PMO, COMSATS, NUST, FAST, various reputed universities and students have participated.

Basic aim of this course is to make a professional capable enough to make his/her own FPGA based systems. The course is heavily Laboratory oriented in which participants design and evaluate FPGA based digital circuits. Consequently it gives an opportunity for a professional to improve his/her skill keeping in view of the practical nature of the course. Resource persons of this course have true practical hands-on experience of Chip Designing industry.

Overview
This course covers design simulation, verification & testing, synthesis and implementation of FPGA based digital systems using the standard Verilog hardware description language and Xilinx Synthesis tools. It also covers Data Acquisitioning, Digital Signal Processing (DSP) implementation on FPGAs and real time debugging with Xilinx ChipScope Pro tools.

 This course is heavily Laboratory oriented in which the participants design and evaluate digital circuits. Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools are used for experiments.

Course Outlines: 

Already 370 Engineers/Scientists, mostly from reputed Organizations, have successfully completed this course under Skill Development Council. Opportunity for Fresh Engineers to improve their skills in High Tech field of Electronics.

Ø       Digital Design Methodology

Ø       Digital Chip Design using Verilog HDL with ModelSim Simulator

Ø       Introduction to VHDL and comparison with Verilog HDL

Ø       Controller based Designs – State Machines

Ø       Study to build a Data Acquisitioning System with FPGA
   (Single / Multi - Channel Analyzer) with FPGA

Ø       Testing and Verification Methodology – Automated Test benches

Ø       Embedded controllers in FPGAs - Implementation of MC8051 core in FPGA

Ø       Xilinx FPGA/CPLD architecture – Spartan-II & Spartan-III devices

Ø       Xilinx FPGA Design Methodology

Ø       Design synthesis and implementation using Xilinx ISE 8.2i

Ø       Digital Circuits Designed with built-in resources for specific FPGA

Ø       Timing Analyzer, Core Generator and Constraint Editor tools

Ø       DSP Implementation (difference equations, Fix-point arithmetic, Q-format, FIR/IIR Filters, Multi-rate, Pipelining, transforms etc) in FPGAs

Ø       Introduction to System on Chip (SoC)

Ø       FPGA configuration modes and in-depth study of FPGA based PCB

Ø       Real time On Chip debugging – ChipScope Pro Tools

Ø       Real time simulations with Xilinx FPGA based Training Boards

Prerequisites:

Ø    B.E Electronics / Electrical, Computer / IT Engineering, M.Sc Electronics / Computer Science    (Students are warmly welcome…)

Ø    Basics of Digital Electronics and Microprocessor Fundamentals

Ø    Programming Basics (Prefer C Language)

 Ø   Skill Gained after completing this course

After completing this comprehensive training, participant will have the necessary skills to:

            Ø      Locate the design issues and solve them..

Ø      Implement digital designs using Verilog HDL

Ø      Create test and verification strategy for chip designing

Ø      Design an optimize state machine based designs

Ø      DSP Implementation in FPGAs

Ø      Handle the Fix-point Arithmetic in hardware

Ø      Xilinx FPGA architecture details

Ø      Synthesis, Implementation & configuration processes using ISE 8.2i

Ø      Create design constraints and analyze synthesis & timing reports

Ø      Use built-in resources of Xilinx FPGA in your design

Ø      How to use Xilinx FPGA on PCB (FPGA configuration on Board)

Ø      Use Xilinx Chipscope Pro tools for real-time debugging

Ø      Create Real-time testing environment with FPGA boards

Advance level of Chip Designing Course
In near future, we are going to introduce an advance level of Chip Designing Course. The above mentioned Chip Designing Course or equivalent is mandatory for this advance level. It will be very fruitful for those who have already taken the basic/intermediate level Chip Designing Course. This course duration will be two weeks (6 days per week & 4 hrs per day). This course will be heavily LAB-oriented in which the participants will be designed and evaluated digital circuits. Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools will be used for the experiments. Prospective course contents are mentioned below:

Ø      Advance Digital Design Techniques

Ø      Microprocessor ( PicoBlaz / MicroBlaz ) based design in Xilinx    FPGA

Ø      Next Generation Chip Interconnection – Network-On-Chip

Ø      Automatic Chip Testing procedures by using Scripts

Ø      High Speed memory (DDR) interfaces with FPGA

Ø      DSP implementation in FPGA

Ø      Xilinx Virtex-5 series overview and its architecture

Ø      Design Optimization techniques by using PlanAhead Tool

Ø      Partial Reconfiguration in Xilinx Virtex series FPGA

Ø      Real-time debugging of Xilinx FPGAs by using ChipScope Pro
   Tools

ü      Implement Audio and Image processing on Virtex Training Kit

ü      Implement a data acquisition system on Virtex Training Kit

   Course Schedule

Duration  =  06 weeks / Three Days per week