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Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789805413

Length 368 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Assembly

Tools

FPGA

Concepts

Embedded Systems

Author (1):

Frank Bruno

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to FPGAs and Xilinx Architectures

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to FPGA Architectures and Xilinx Vivado FREE CHAPTER

3. Section 2: Introduction to Verilog RTL Design, Simulation, and Implementation

4. Chapter 2: Combinational Logic

5. Chapter 3: Counting Button Presses

6. Chapter 4: Let's Build a Calculator

7. Chapter 5: FPGA Resources and How to Use Them

8. Chapter 6: Math, Parallelism, and Pipelined Design

9. Section 3: Interfacing with External Components

10. Chapter 7: Introduction to AXI

11. Chapter 8: Lots of Data? MIG and DDR2

12. Chapter 9: A Better Way to Display – VGA

13. Chapter 10: Bringing It All Together

14. Chapter 11: Advanced Topics

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 7: Introduction to AXI

As Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) became larger and more complex, vendors such as Xilinx began offering Intellectual Property (IP), designed and tested to accelerate design implementation. These first IPs often had simple interfaces, sometimes referred to as native interfaces. Xilinx offered early high-end parts with PowerPC cores and their own MicroBlaze cores, each of which had differing interfaces. When Xilinx adopted ARM processors as part of their Zynq family, they standardized the ARM processor interfaces, using the Advanced eXtensible Interface (AXI). In order to best use Xilinx IPs, we have already looked at the streaming interface. There are two other interfaces that are commonly used: AXI-Lite and AXI full.

By the end of this chapter, you'll have a good handle on the flavors of AXI and when to use them. You'll know how to create your own IPs using AXI to make integration with other IPs easier. Finally, you'll have...