Abusing Vivado for HLS design with ISE


alex

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Hey, what's up, the forum's been so quiet for the last week, are you all hibernating?

 

If you are, here's a nice way to pass the time. Make a hot cuppa of your favorite beverage and sit back and enjoy this link to a nice half hour video I found of Colin, showing a step by step way of building a FIR filter. He is using Vivado for HLS (high level synthesys) to turn C code into VHDL/Verilog and then bring the output created by Vivado into the old school ISE environment to synthesize the FIR for a Spartan 3 FPGA.

 

By being careful enough not to generate Virtex/Artix specific blocks, this technique can be used to turn almost any C code into functional synthesizable RTL for FPGAs not technically supported by Vivado. Pretty cool if you ask me.

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Just a heads up, I saw in the latest issue of Circuit Cellar, in which Colin is a column contributor, that he has launched a new site at http://programmablelogicinpractice.com

 

It's a freshly launched site and currently has next to no content, except for a couple of instructional videos "Inserting Logic Analyzer Cores" and "Advanced Features".

 

I really enjoy Colin's presentation style and he covers very interesting topics, so I'll be keeping an eye on that site for fresh new content and hopefully it won't disappoint.

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