SoC Archives - World of FPGA by David Kirchner

WFP030 – FPGA Conference 2025

2025-07-22/by David Kirchner

It was time for a little trip again. I went to Munich to the three-day FPGA conference of PLC2 and the Vogel Verlag.

* FPGA Conference the biggest event in Europe
* Some facts
* 3 days
* 430 Participants
* 128 Lectures
* 110 Speakers
* 39 Exhibitors
* This year triple anniversary
* 40 years FPGA
* 30 years PLC2
* 10 years FPGA Conference
* All my visited talks
* Welcome to the Post-European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Era
* FPGAs and the Cyber Resilience Act
* Cyber Resilience Act: Planning your Security Future
* Making Simple FPGA Testbenches – Utilising Important Quality Measures
* A Cuckoo Hash-Based CAM Architecture for FPGA and ASIC Implementations
* Elevate your Design: Security and Power Efficiency with AMD Spartan UltraScale+ FPGAs
* Faster Change of Probe Signals using the Vivado Logic Analyzer
* Warning! Your FPGAs & SoC FPGAs are Under Attack
* Functional Safety for Hardware and Software
* Security, Regulations and FPGA-Based Systems – How to Make Your System Secure
* Verify the Bits that Fly : A Demonstration of Bitstream to HDL Equivalence Checking
* Why VUnit?
* Managing and Versioning Gateware Source Code on Git with Hog
* A Baseboard Management Controller for FPGA/SoC Board Supervision and Faster Bringup
* GateMate FPGA: Qualification for Radiation-Tolerant Applications
* GateMate FPGA: High-Speed Transceiver (SerDes) Hands-On
* Project-Based and Non-Project-Based Scripting in Vivado
* Multi-Run Management Using Vivado
* How to Drive Parallel High-Speed Circuits from an AMD FPGA
Next FPGA conference is from 30 June – 2 July 2026

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WFP016 – FPGA Conference 2023

2023-07-18/by David Kirchner

It was time for a little trip again. This time I went to Munich to the three-day FPGA conference of PLC2 and the Vogel Verlag.

Content of this Episode
* 3 day FPGA Conference in Munich
* A little insight
* My attended lectures
* Sessions on the first day
* Linux Build Methodologies: PetaLinux vs. Yocto Flow
* Coverage (aka Requirement Coverage)
* Using property descriptions to formally verify FPGA design code
* Synthesizing a Vivado Project on GitLab-CI and Deploying to an FPGA Board
* Secure method of enabling multiple design in FPGA
* Constraining Multiple Clock Domains
* AMD-Xilinx: Dynamic Function Exchange with Device Tree Overlay
* GDBServer in Hardware for VexRiscv Processing Systems
* Next Generation of High-Speed Interfaces for Vision Applications
* Sessions on the second day
* Demystify a Vitis Embedded Acceleration Platform
* MicroBlaze – A most flexible processor for FPGAs and MPSoCs
* Self organizing administration tool to control FPGA designs
* Fundamentals of Timing Analysis and Why No FPGA Design Can Do Without It
* How to crash 100+ AWS FPGA instances and how to insert Trojans into bitstreams
* Demonstration Setup for HashCache
* Sessions on the third day
* Do FPGA designers and hardware designers need to talk? A practical approach to shortening the project timeline
* How your FPGA design decisions affect PCB board performance
* Agilex SoC Architecture
* Turning your FPGA into a fast multichannel ADC
* PCIe, MIPI CSI-2, HDMI and DDR memory across platforms from an Open Source perspective
* Constant On-Time (COT) Control for FPGA High-Current Power Supplies
* Hardware attacks on FPGA: An overview of threats and security mechanisms

Next FPGA conference is from July 2nd to 4th, 2024

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WFP015 – Bootloader

2023-07-04/by David Kirchner

To start up a Xilinx Zynq SoC many steps are required. To get an overview we will talk today about bootloader.

Content of this Episode
* Stage-0 Boot (also known as BootROM)
* First Stage Bootloader (FSBL)
* Second Stage Bootloader
* Linux Kernel
* Init

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WFP014 – Debugging an SoC

2023-06-20/by David Kirchner

Writing software and debugging go hand in hand while you develop a new system. Today we want to debug an SoC.

Content of this Episode
* How to debug an SoC
* Remember the workflow
* Now we can debug

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WFP013 – Embedded Systems

2023-05-30/by David Kirchner

You can run different kinds of applications or operating systems on an SoC.
To get an overview we will dive into embedded systems with connection to FPGA SoC.

Content of this Episode
* FPGA development
* Petalinux
* Workflow
* Create and configure the system
* Using BitBake files to modify
* Booting a system
* Some additional ideas
* Access to PL

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WFP012 – Design workflow

2023-05-16/by David Kirchner

To design an SoC is quite different from designing only a single device like a microcontroller, a processor or an FPGA. The high-level workflow is the topic of this episode.

Content of this Episode
* Workflow
* FPGA project
* Controller project
* Combination

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WFP011 – Manufacturer of SoC

2023-05-02/by David Kirchner

There are many different manufacturers of SoCs on the market.
In this episode I’ll give you an overview over the most common SoCs with an FPGA core inside.

Content of this Episode
* Xilinx
* Intel
* Microsemi
* Soft processor core

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WFP010 – Idea behind SoC

2023-04-18/by David Kirchner

SoC or in long system-on-chip are highly integrated electronic components. In today’s episode we will discuss the idea behind SoCs.

Content of this Episode
* Basic definition for SoC
* SoC in the World of FPGA
* What is the idea
* Development suite
* Software for processor

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