I/O Designer

Duration: 2 Days
Pricing: $1,400.00 USD
Course Part Number: 221966

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Course Overview

As the FPGA devices grew larger, it is harder to maintain consistency between the FPGA and PCB design flows. I/O Designer bridges the gap between the two design flows. This course offered by Mentor Graphics teaches you how to manage the data and monitor the changes between the two design flows while maintaining consistency. Both the lectures and hands-on labs provide you with skills necessary to use the tool efficiently in the design process, under the guidance of our industry expert instructors.

You will learn how to

• Use I/O Designer in different design scenarios
• Create an I/O Designer database
• Assign signals read in from a HDL file to the FPGA device pins
• Automatically unravel signals and buses based on the PCB floorplan
• Create symbols using different fracturing schemes
• Export the created symbols to a schematic tool
• Update and synchronize the changes between the two design flows
• Use I/O Designer to optimize Multi-FPGA Designs
• Manage the database in a team design using version control mechanisms

Hands-On Labs

Throughout this course, extensive hands-on lab exercises provide you with practical experience using I/O Designer software. Hands-on lab topics include:

• I/O Designer GUI and software configuration
• Setup of FPGA/PCB projects in various design environments and design styles
• Defining the FPGA I/O design either in I/O Designer or the FPGA flow or the PCB flow
• Generation of the schematic sheets and symbols and the FPGA PCB mapping data
• Update and synchronize changes between the two design flows
• Use I/O Designer to optimize Multi-FPGA Designs
• Manage the database in a team design using version control mechanisms

Prerequisites

• A general understanding of PCB and FPGA design flows
• Knowledge of schematic capture and PCB layout

Key Topics

Related Courses

• Design Architect
• Design Capture for Expedition PCB Layout
• Design Capture to Expedition PCB Process
• DxDesigner for Expedition PCB Flow
• Expedition PCB Introduction