Introduction to FPGA Design for Software Engineers

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This course introduces FPGA and SoC design concepts to engineers whose primary background is software development. Unlike other courses that assume prior hardware context, this course begins entirely from a C/Python mental model and systematically builds hardware thinking without requiring any prior knowledge of programmable logic or digital design.

All explanations are grounded in embedded software development analogies. Topics such as parallelism, memory mapped I/O, clock domains, and timing are presented in terms that a software engineer will immediately recognize, while progressively introducing the underlying hardware concepts. By the end of the course, students will understand RTL (VHDL/Verilog), Altera Quartus Prime for synthesis and place-and-route, working with Platform Designer (Qsys) to build SoC subsystems, and debugging designs using Signal Tap and the JTAG debug chain.

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Device Family	Agilex™ 3 FPGA C-Series, Agilex™ 5 FPGA D-Series, Agilex™ 5 FPGA E-Series, Agilex™ 7 FPGA F-Series, Agilex™ 7 FPGA I-Series, Agilex™ 7 FPGA M-Series, Agilex™ 9 FPGA Direct RF-Series, Arria® 10 Bare Die, Arria® 10 GT FPGA, Arria® 10 GX FPGA, Arria® 10 SX FPGA, Arria® V GT FPGA, Arria® V GX FPGA, Arria® V GZ FPGA, Arria® V ST FPGA, Arria® V SX FPGA, Cyclone® 10 GX FPGA, Cyclone® 10 LP FPGA, Cyclone® IV E FPGA, Cyclone® IV GX FPGA, Cyclone® V E FPGA, Cyclone® V GT FPGA, Cyclone® V GX FPGA, Cyclone® V SE FPGA, Cyclone® V ST FPGA, Cyclone® V SX FPGA, HardCopy™ II ASIC Devices, HardCopy™ III ASIC Devices, MAX® 10 FPGA, Stratix® 10 AX FPGA, Stratix® 10 Bare Die, Stratix® 10 GX FPGA, Stratix® 10 SX FPGA, Stratix® 10 TX FPGA
Offering Status	Production
Prerequisites	Programming proficiency in C or C++. Familiarity with a command line environment. Basic understanding of binary and hexadecimal number systems. Conceptual understanding of memory mapped I/O or register access in embedded C
Languages	English
Target Audience	Engineers and architects who work primarily in software but need to design, evaluate, or collaborate on FPGA- and SoC-based systems.
Duration	2 Days
Hands On Lab	True
OS Support	Windows,Linux

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