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Designing with the Versal Adaptive Soc – Power and Board Design
Versal
Designing with the Versal ACAP -
Power and Board Design
Understand a system-level of power and thermal issues related to designing with the Versal™ ACAP.
Course
Highlights
This one-day course provides a system-level understanding of power and thermal issues related to designing with the Versal™ ACAP.
The emphasis of this course is on:
- Estimating power using power analysis
- Managing thermal design
- Understanding Versal device packaging
- Using the Versal PCB Schematic Checklist for accelerating PCB design
Who Should
Attend
Hardware designers and system architects wanting to develop an effective power distribution network for the Versal ACAP.
Course
Prerequisites
- Designing with the Versal ACAP: Architecture and Methodology course
- Optional: Signal Integrity and Board Design course
- Familiarity with the Vivado® Design Suite
Course
Benefits
After completing this comprehensive training, you will have the necessary skills to:
- Design an efficient power distribution network for a Versal ACAP design
- Leverage the Vivado Design Suite XPE tool for power estimation
- Dynamically manage power consumption
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Upcoming Program
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Course Outline
Versal ACAP: Architecture Overview for Existing Xilinx Users
Objective: Introduce to students that already have familiarity with Xilinx architectures the new and updated features found in the Versal ACAP devices.
- Major blocks within the Versal device
- High-level view of each of the major blocks
- Connectivity among the major blocks
- Common use cases
Versal ACAP: Power and Thermal Solutions Overview
Objective: Introduce key power and thermal concepts and explores some of the capabilities of the Versal ACAP devices and introduces the power distribution network flow.
- concepts of power consumption and thermal regulation
- Versal ACAP XPE tool
Versal ACAP: Packaging and Power Integrity
Objective: Describe key elements when modeling a PDN and dives deeper into packaging considerations.
- Dynamic power states within the Versal ACAP
- Modeling the power distribution network
Versal ACAP: Power Management
Objective: Discuss power domains and how they can be controlled along with basic techniques used to lower overall power consumption.
- Versal ACAP power domains
- Power management influenced by hardware and software
Power Supply Backgrounder
Objective: Review linear and switching power supplies and common terms used to specify power supply characteristics.
- Switching (buck) regulators
- Linear regulators (including low-dropout regulators)
Versal ACAP: Designing the Power Supply
Objective: Consolidate the thermal management concepts of the course for achieving a successful design.
- Complexity of the Versal® ACAP power distribution network
- Power Supply considerations
PCB Design Verification – Versal ACAP Schematic Checklist
Objective: Review PCB design verification using the Schematic Checklist.
- The Schematic Review Checklist
- GT sub-section verification
- PMIO sub-section verification
- XPIO sub-section verification
