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Designing with PlanAhead
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Learn to increase design performance and achieve repeatable results by using the PlanAhead™ software tool. Topics include: a product overview, synthesis and project tips, design analysis, creating a floorplan, improving performance, experimenting with implementation options, incremental methodology, block-based IP design, and I/O pin assignment.
Note: The hands-on labs provided within this course are identical to the tutorials that are packaged with the PlanAhead software. This course is supplemented with instructor-led presentations and demos.
Level
Intermediate
Duration
2 Days
Who Should Attend
FPGA designers, system architects, and system engineers who are interested in analyzing and driving the physical implementation of their designs to maximize performance and capacity.
Software Tools
Xilinx ISE 9.1i
PlanAhead 9.1.2
Skills Gained
After completing this comprehensive training, you will have the necessary skills to:
Import designs into the PlanAhead software project environment
Analyze design statistics, connectivity, timing, and placement results
Run the Design Rule Checker (DRC) and Weighted Average Simultaneous Switching Output (WASSO) analysis
Partition and floorplan designs
Run ExploreAhead to try multiple implementation strategies
Import and analyze the implementation results to improve the floorplan
Floorplan to improve performance and consistency
Use block-based design and create and reuse module-level IP
Use PinAhead to import, define and assign I/O pins for the design
Course Outline
Day 1
Course Overview
Lab 1: Getting Started with PlanAhead
Design Analysis and Exploration
Lab 2: Design Analysis and Exploration
Design Partitioning and Top-Level Floorplanning
Lab 3: Design Partitioning and Top-Level Floorplanning
Implementing a Floorplanned Design
Lab 4: Implementation
Day 2
Floorplanning Techniques
Lab 5: Floorplanning
Tuning a Floorplan for Performance
Lab 6: Floorplan Tuning
Block-Based Design and IP Reuse
Lab 7: Block-Based Design and IP Reuse
I/O Pin Assignment
Lab 8: I/O Pin Assignment
Floorplanning Strategies
Course Summary
Labs
Lab 1: Getting Started with PlanAhead – Illustrates the steps you take to import a synthesized design into the PlanAhead software so that you can begin floorplanning. Also introduces the PlanAhead software environment and views.
Lab 2: Design Analysis and Exploration – Introduces the analysis features of the PlanAhead software that enable early detection of potential design issues, alternate device selection, initial floorplanning direction, and post-implementation exploration.
Lab 3: Design Partitioning and Top-Level Floorplanning – Introduces the concept of floorplanning. By using automated partitioning tools, you will create a top-level floorplan and experiment with sizing and shaping Pblocks based on resources assigned to them.
Lab 4: Implementation – Introduces the integration of the ISE software implementation tools with the PlanAhead software. Also introduces the ExploreAhead tool for queuing multiple ISE software runs with varying strategies.
Lab 5: Floorplanning – Describes how to analyze implementation results and to use that information to generate a floorplan aimed at increasing design performance.
Lab 6: Floorplan Tuning – Introduces techniques to help close on timing targets consistently.
Lab 7: Block-Based Design and IP Reuse – Describes the steps to implement a block-based methodology that includes the creation and reuse of an IP module.
Lab 8: I/O Pin Assignment – Introduces the PinAhead environment for performing I/O pin assignment
Prerequisites
No Scheduled Sessions
Contact Bottom Line Technologies for more information
Education Investment Options
| Course & Basic Follow-on Coaching |
$1,599 |
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| Course & Comprehensive Follow-on Coaching |
$2,199 |
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| Course Only |
$1,399 |
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| Basic Coaching ala Carte |
Not currently offered |
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| S3 Board & 1 hour support |
$399 |
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| V4 Board & 1 hour support |
$599 |
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| V5 Board & 1 hour support |
$1,399 |
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Basic follow-on coaching includes 2 hours (max 4 calls)
Comprehensive follow-on coaching includes 8 hours (max 12 calls)
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