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Architecting and Building High-Speed SoCs
Architecting and Building High-Speed SoCs

Architecting and Building High-Speed SoCs: Design, develop, and debug complex FPGA based systems-on-chip

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Architecting and Building High-Speed SoCs

Introducing FPGA Devices and SoCs

In this chapter, we will begin by describing what the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology is and its evolution since it was first invented by Xilinx in the 1980s. We will cover the electronics industry gap that FPGA devices cover, their adoption, and their ease of use for implementing custom digital hardware functions and systems. Then, we will describe the high-speed FPGA-based system-on-a-chip (SoC) and its evolution since it was introduced as a solution by the major FPGA vendors in the early 2000s. Finally, we will look at how various applications classify SoCs, specifically for FPGA implementations.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Xilinx FPGA devices overview
  • Xilinx SoC overview and history
  • Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC family hardware features
  • Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC family hardware features
  • SoC in ASIC technologies
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  • Use development tools to implement and verify an SoC, including ARM CPUs and the FPGA logic
  • Overcome the challenge of time to market by using FPGA SoCs and avoid the prohibitive ASIC NRE cost
  • Understand the integration of custom logic accelerators and the SoC software and build them
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Modern and complex SoCs can adapt to many demanding system requirements by combining the processing power of ARM processors and the feature-rich Xilinx FPGAs. You’ll need to understand many protocols, use a variety of internal and external interfaces, pinpoint the bottlenecks, and define the architecture of an SoC in an FPGA to produce a superior solution in a timely and cost-efficient manner. This book adopts a practical approach to helping you master both the hardware and software design flows, understand key interconnects and interfaces, analyze the system performance and enhance it using the acceleration techniques, and finally build an RTOS-based software application for an advanced SoC design. You’ll start with an introduction to the FPGA SoCs technology fundamentals and their associated development design tools. Gradually, the book will guide you through building the SoC hardware and software, starting from the architecture definition to testing on a demo board or a virtual platform. The level of complexity evolves as the book progresses and covers advanced applications such as communications, security, and coherent hardware acceleration. By the end of this book, you'll have learned the concepts underlying FPGA SoCs’ advanced features and you’ll have constructed a high-speed SoC targeting a high-end FPGA from the ground up.

Who is this book for?

This book is for FPGA and ASIC hardware and firmware developers, IoT engineers, SoC architects, and anyone interested in understanding the process of developing a complex SoC, including all aspects of the hardware design and the associated firmware design. Prior knowledge of digital electronics, and some experience of coding in VHDL or Verilog and C or a similar language suitable for embedded systems will be required for using this book. A general understanding of FPGA and CPU architecture will also be helpful but not mandatory.

What you will learn

  • Understand SoC FPGAs' main features, advanced buses and interface protocols
  • Develop and verify an SoC hardware platform targeting an FPGA-based SoC
  • Explore and use the main tools for building the SoC hardware and software
  • Build advanced SoCs using hardware acceleration with custom IPs
  • Implement an OS-based software application targeting an FPGA-based SoC
  • Understand the hardware and software integration techniques for SoC FPGAs
  • Use tools to co-debug the SoC software and hardware
  • Gain insights into communication and DSP principles in FPGA-based SoCs

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Table of Contents

19 Chapters
Part 1: Fundamentals and the Main Features of High-Speed SoC and FPGA Designs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1: Introducing FPGA Devices and SoCs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: FPGA Devices and SoC Design Tools Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: Basic and Advanced On-Chip Busses and Interconnects Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: Connecting High-Speed Devices Using Buses and Interconnects Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Basic and Advanced SoC Interfaces Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 2: Implementing High-Speed SoC Designs in an FPGA Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 6: What Goes Where in a High-Speed SoC Design Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: FPGA SoC Hardware Design and Verification Flow Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: FPGA SoC Software Design Flow Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 9: SoC Design Hardware and Software Integration Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 3: Implementation and Integration of Advanced High-Speed FPGA SoCs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 10: Building a Complex SoC Hardware Targeting an FPGA Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 11: Addressing the Security Aspects of an FPGA-Based SoC Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 12: Building a Complex Software with an Embedded Operating System Flow Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 13: Video, Image, and DSP Processing Principles in an FPGA and SoCs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 14: Communication and Control Systems Implementation in FPGAs and SoCs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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imran ahmed Feb 22, 2023
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A Bible for design and verification using Xilinx FPGAs. The author has given a very practical and detailed explanation of building complex HW/SW Co-Designs with detailed walkthroughs using current toolsets. An excellent book for young engineers entering in to the field of SOC/FPGA designs with detailed explanation and handling of current protocols and standards. Also an excellent guide for ASIC/SOC engineers who are venturing in to FPGA designs. For expert designers it provide handy references to protocols like OCP, AMBA, PCIe, DDRs and many others. The book also provides detailed walk throughs of building software/HW COSIMs and designs using Xilinx VITIS tool and flows. The book fills the gap in the market by handholding the freshers from introductions to deep understanding of how to build complex SOCs using multiple standards and protocols. An essential and practical guide for every SOC design/verification engineer.
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TK Jan 06, 2023
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This is a great book to get started on SoC architecture design. It closes the gap between basic Electrical-Engineering/Computer-Science knowledge and becoming proficient in SoC design. Reading one book admittedly does not turn you into an SoC architect (that still takes years of experience), but many relevant architecture concepts and related design challenges are covered, e.g. non-coherent and cache coherent interconnects, memory management, DDR memory controllers, performance profiling, etc. The book finds a very good middle ground between giving a broad introduction to the many topics, providing references for deeper study, and illustrating the SoC architecture process based on a real case study, including demo videos and code examples. It’s very well written and comes with many figures that greatly help the understanding of basic and advanced architecture concepts.I find the main value of the book that it illustrates the entire SoC architecture process of partitioning and implementing an application into a target architecture. This is hard to do in theory, so the process from conception to implementation is explained based on a hands-on case-study. Chapter 6 on “What Goes Where in a High-Speed SoC Design” is a great example where Mounir describes the SoC architecture approach, especially the section on “SoC hardware and software partitioning” that describes the trade-offs between HW and SW implementation options for each application feature, under consideration of the specific product requirements.The selected Electronic Trading System is great example to study important architectural challenges like high-speed packet processing, security, close HW/SW interaction, etc., which are relevant in many SoC architecture projects, e.g. in the automotive and data center domains. All these aspects are covered in part 3 of the book on “Implementation and Integration of Advanced High-Speed FPGA SoCs”The examples are based on Xilinx HW and tools flows, but the concepts equally apply to any FPGA SoC platform and in fact to ASIC SoC design. In fact, the decision criteria between realization in FPGA and ASIC are also described.There are many references to web resources throughout the book. A separate section listing all references would have been helpful. Like this you need to look up the index and then leaf to the respective page.
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Michail Koundourakis Jan 03, 2023
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Not the typical theory book, the author's approach to provide a full hands-on example of how to build a complex FPGA-based SoC makes all the difference.It is not just for SoC architects or FPGA developers, the concepts and the language used in this book make it accessible to a wider audience. My background is software architecture for embedded devices; after reading this book and following the practical steps suggested I can actually run the software and debug it using the free tools available. I can now verify key software architecture decisions, without waiting for hardware to become available.This book also offers condensed knowledge about key aspects of modern CPUs, SoC interfaces. The sources are included, so when the reader needs more details, it can get access to free documentation provided by the vendors. Particularly useful to me was Section 3, which discusses data sharing and coherency; a real challenge for software architects and developers in multi-processor modern SoCs.All the pictures and the source code are available to access online and I can revisit this book with the digital copy I got for free with my paperback!
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123al Feb 20, 2023
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I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and have learnt a great deal. It is written in a way which is easy to understand and covers and builds upon a lot of the knowledge I have gained in my computer architecture courses during my university degree. It builds upon this with very helpful guides on FPGA tools, justified design and AMBA bus architectures. The selection of diagrams are clear and well chosen, and the examples are detailed and thorough. I wish I had this book when I first started out as an engineer!
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Mel Feb 19, 2023
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Although it mentions FPGA-based SoCs, the book is much more general, with a wealth of information on bus protocols and infrastructure, interfaces and SoC concepts like cache coherency presented in a very approachable manner. It also includes a wealth of references for further reading. The more FPGA specific parts are very practical and highlight the pitfalls likely to be encountered with real implementations.An excellent go-to reference for both someone starting to explore SoCs and the experienced engineer that needs some knowledge gaps filling in.
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