Professor's Workshop with Xilinx, Inc. (Day 2)

Boston University’s College of Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering Department will host a “Professor’s Workshop” conducted by Xilinx, Inc., arguably the leading developer and manufacturer of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). We hope you can attend.The “Professor’s Workshop” is intended to present to a select group of academics, many of whom will travel to Boston University from schools around the country, and possibly other countries, the very latest product(s) and support tools. With this workshop they can expose their students and faculty colleagues to the design and implementation issues of the newest products for use in such applications as advanced embedded systems design.Here are the details -Topics covered: The hardware is a chip called the “Zynq-7000.” It contains a very large FPGA functionality plus two Systems on a Chip (SoC) constructed with Advanced Risc Machine (ARM) Architecture. This chip combines under the Xilinx 28 nm device technology two very compelling and powerful features, two programmable processors and a very powerful programmable architecture. The workshop class will use a development board called the ZED-Board, well configured around the Zynq-7000.The software includes “Vivado High-Level Synthesis (HLS).” Vivado HLS is a key element in the popular Xilinx tool kit, ISE 14.2. Vivado provides simulation and much more efficient compilation resulting in faster, more accurate code for the FPGA.

When 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Thursday, June 27, 2013
Location Photonics Center, 8 Saint Mary’s St., Room 115