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- November 21, 2024
Case Study
FPGA Emulation for ARM Based Processor
Client
A US-based chip maker that designs ARM-based server class processors approached Ignitarium’s semiconductor team for an FPGA Emulation setup for ARM-based processoron a Xilinx Virtex™ VU19P FPGA
Challenges
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FPGA porting of ARMv8 based dual core processor SOC
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FPGA porting and testing of security and power management system
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Partitioning and Time Division Multiplexing Design Implementation
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DDR4 Integration
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Very high utilization of above 80% on both FPGAs
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Porting Linux on the processors and running standard applications on the ported solution
Solution
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Partitioned the complex design to fit in two different FPGAs on S2C platform
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Integrated MIG IP for DDR4 interfacing
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TDM design for data transfer across FPGA due to I/O pin limitation. Designed an auto calibration logic to ensure proper sampling of data on the receiver board
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Hardware Bring up with dual VU19P logic system and external peripheral connections
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Use of JTAG and OpenOCD for verification of different modules like I2C, UART, DDR4
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Brought up Linux and enabled Office application on the FPGA-based system
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Business Impact
Single-house execution for FPGA and Embedded services
Created an acceleration platform for the customer for future emulation activities
