FPGA design

Overview

The FPGA design of an instrument relies on:

  • Xilinx Zynq board and Xilinx Design Constraints (XDC) files
  • FPGA cores
  • FPGA modules (optional)
  • Vivado block design

Boards

Available boards by default are:

  • Red Pitaya
  • Zedboard

The board directory must be specified in the instrument configuration file.

Koheron SDK provides default boards XDC files.

XDC files must be specified in the instrument configuration file.

FPGA cores

Koheron SDK provides a library of FPGA cores.

A core can be tested with the following command:

$ make CORE=fpga/modules/axi_ctl_register_v1_0 test_core

Cores must be specified in the instrument configuration file.

FPGA modules

FPGA modules include their own Vivado block design with a test bench file testbench.v written in Verilog. Koheron SDK provides a library of FPGA modules.

A module can be tested with the following command:

$ make CONFIG=fpga/modules/address/config.yml test_module

Modules must be specified in the instrument configuration file.

Block design

Koheron SDK uses a block design Tcl script to create the instrument block design.

See also

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