Preface
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 optimal time and with an optimal cost. This book adopts a practical approach to help you master both the hardware and software design flows, understand key interconnects and interfaces, analyze the system performance and enhance it using acceleration techniques, and finally, build an RTOS-based software application for an advanced SoC design.
Beginning with an introduction to the FPGA SoC technology fundamentals and their associated development design tools, this book will guide you in 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 it 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 SoC advanced features and you’ll have constructed a high-speed SoC targeting a high-end FPGA from the ground up.
