Sample Schedule:

Although not every seminar will follow the exact same schedule, this sample agenda is provided to help give you an idea of the topics that will be covered, and the flow of the day.

Virtex-II Seminar - AM

Virtex-II family is the first of the new Platform FPGAs, and initiates an entirely new way of designing complex systems. This Virtex-II seminar high-lights how Virtex-II solves the challenges of today's designs on-chip and off-chip. This session will demonstrate how to simplify high-speed board-level design with Virtex-II. We will look at software solutions the value of DCM and examples clock going in, clock coming out, interfacing to. During the second session we will look at internal and external memory, DSP, System IO, XCITE, part availability and our roadmap for the future.

 

Topic	Time (Minutes)	Summary
Challenges faced today	20	High-speed board level design issues.Introduction to Platform FPGA and Virtex-II
Design Methodology	30	Software tools and Methodology
DCM / Clocking Solutions	40	Virtex-II clocking solutions and Digital Clock Manager features
Break	10
Memory Solutions	20	Memory hierarchy: Distributed RAM, Block RAM and fast interfaces
System I/O Solutions	40	I/O standards supported by Virtex-II. LVDS and high-bandwidth solutions. POS-PHY Level 4 and Flexbus 4 Interfaces, RapidIO, PCI-X,...
Break	10
XCITE Technology	30	Digitally Controlled Impedance and embedded termination. Simplify board level design
Virtex-II Family	10	Bitstream encryption and Virtex-II devices offer / availability
Platform FPGA roadmap	30	Next generation of platform FPGA with embedded PPC, gigabit serial I/O
	4 Hours

XtremeDSP seminar - PM

FPGAs are becoming the enabling technology for many high-performance DSP applications such as broadband, wireless, video and image processing. The Xilinx FPGA portion of the DSP market is currently estimated to about $250 million, growing by 50% annually. With the new Virtex-II Platform FPGA and our partnership with The MathWorks, Xilinx is well positioned to address this exploding opportunity. With the XtremeDSP initiative, we will provide a complete solution, giving DSP and system designers easy access to breakthrough DSP performance and flexibility.

 

Topic	Time (Minutes)	Summary
Introduction	15	Brief introduction.
Market Trends	10	Discussion about a new information technology era - enabled by high-performance DSP.
XtremeDSP	20	Introduction of XtremeDSP from Xilinx, including DSP silicon features in Virtex-II, new DSP development tools and IP algorithms.
Matlab & Simulink	30	New DSP system-level design methodologies from The MathWorks and Xilinx enabling DSP designers to use familiar tools to targeted FPGAs.
Break	10
Communication	70	This application oriented technical session will demonstrate how FPGAs are being used in high-performance digital communication systems through several application examples.
Break	10
Imaging	60	This technical session will discuss the use of FPGAs to break new DSP performance barriers within video and imaging applications.
Wrap up/Q&A	15
	4 Hours