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Advanced Features and Techniques of Embedded Systems Development provides
embedded systems developers the necessary skills to develop complex embedded
systems and enables them to improve their designs by using the tools available
in the Embedded Development Kit (EDK). This course also helps developers
understand and utilize advanced components of embedded systems design for
architecting a complex system.
This course builds on the skills gained in the
Embedded Systems Development course. Labs provide hands-on experience with
the development, verification, debugging, and simulation of an embedded system.
All labs use a hardware board, connected to a server, to which designs are
downloaded and verified.
Software Tools
- Xilinx ISE™ 9.1 SP3
- Mentor Graphics ModelSim 6.0c
- EDK 9.1 SP1
Skills Gained
After completing this training, you will have the necessary skills to:
- Assemble and architect a complete embedded system
- Identify the steps involved in integrating user IP in a system
- Use a Board Support Package (BSP) to target multiple operating systems
- Apply advanced debugging techniques
- Design a flash memory-based system and boot load from flash
- Apply various techniques to improve performance
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- Embedded Systems Development Review
- Lab 1: Building a Complete Embedded System
- External Memory Controllers and File Systems
- Lab 2: External Memory Controllers and File Systems
- Debugging Using the ChipScope Pro Analyzer
- Lab 3: Debugging Using the ChipScope Pro Analyzer
- OCM Bus
- Software Performance Improvement
- Accelerating Performance in Hardware
- Lab 4: Performance Tuning
- Bus Functional Modeling Simulation
- Lab 5: BFM Simulation
- Interrupts
- Board Support Packages (BSPs)
- Lab 6: XilKernel and Interrupts
- Boot Loader
- Lab 7: Boot Loading from Flash Memory
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Lab Descriptions
- Lab 1: Building a Complete Embedded System – Develop hardware that incorporates
IP cores to interface to push buttons, switches, LEDs, an LCD display, and
serial communication. Develop an application that interacts with switches, push
buttons, an LCD display, and serial communication. Generate and download a
bitstream onto a hardware board connected to a server.
- Lab 2: External Memory Controllers and File Systems – Design a system that
includes an On-Chip Peripheral Bus (OPB) DDR IP core. Develop an application
that performs file-related tasks on external memory.
- Lab 3: Debugging Using the ChipScope Pro Analyzer – Perform simultaneous
hardware and software debugging on stack-related errors with the ChipScope™ Pro
Analyzer, GDB, and XMD.
- Lab 4: Performance Tuning – Profile a simple piece of code, using the SDK
profile tool, running on a processor and go through iterative steps of
refinement to improve the performance by using caching and porting a repetitive
function to hardware.
- Lab 5: BFM Simulation – Create an EDK system that includes IBM CoreConnect bus
architecture Bus Functional Models (BFM) and Bus Functional Language (BFL)
constructs for an OPB IP. Simulate the OPB bus-based design to verify IP
functionality.
- Lab 6: XilKernel and Interrupts – Set up software settings to use the XilKernel
operating system. Generate and use a BSP for XilKernel with an application that
illustrates multithreading functionality and an interrupt handler.
- Lab 7: Boot Loading from Flash Memory – Develop an application that performs
desired tasks. Due to application size and resource limitations, store it in
flash, load it through a boot loader program, and execute from external memory.
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- FPGA design engineers, system architects, and system engineers who are
interested in Xilinx embedded systems development flow
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- Experience in C programming
- Embedded Systems Development course or experience with embedded systems
design and Xilinx EDK tools
- Some HDL modeling experience
- Basic microprocessor experience and understanding of PowerPC™-processor and
MicroBlaze™-processor systems
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