Getting Started Using MATLAB and Simulink for FPGA, ASIC, and SoC Development

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Fundamentals of MATLAB and Simulink
Modeling for and Deploying to FPGA and ASIC Hardware
Verification of VHDL and Verilog
SoC and Application-Specific Topics

Adopting Model-Based Design for FPGA, ASIC, and SoC Development

Fundamentals of MATLAB and Simulink

Adopting Model-Based Design for FPGA, ASIC, and SoC Development

Get started with algorithm and digital hardware design and verification collaborating to explore implementation options, verify earlier, and generate verification components.

Videos

MATLAB Onramp

Learn the essentials of MATLAB through this free, two-hour introductory tutorial on commonly used features and workflows.

Interactive Online Training

Simulink Onramp

Learn the basics of how to create, edit, and simulate models in Simulink with this free, three-hour introductory tutorial.

Interactive Online Training

MATLAB Fundamentals

This three-day course provides a comprehensive introduction to the MATLAB technical computing environment.

Interactive Online or Instructor-Led Training

Simulink Fundamentals

This two-day course is for engineers who are new to system and algorithm modeling and design validation in Simulink.

Instructor-Led training

Getting Started with Simulink

Learn about Model-Based Design and how to use Simulink to create block diagrams and simple models.

Documentation

Modeling for and Deploying to FPGA and ASIC Hardware

FPGA Design with MATLAB (5 videos)

Watch this five-part video guide to learn about FPGA design with MATLAB. Discover the key factors to consider when targeting a signal-processing algorithm to FPGA or ASIC hardware.

Video

Using HDL Coder WFA to implement a distortion effect

This tutorial shows how to design and implement an audio signal processing algorithm on FPGA hardware using HDL Coder.

Blog Post

FPGA for DSP Applications: Fixed Point Made Easy

Learn how to take signal processing and communications designs from floating point to efficient fixed-point implementation on FPGAs.

Recorded webinar

Generate Floating-Point HDL for FPGA and ASIC Hardware

Generate target-independent synthesizable VHDL or Verilog code directly from single-, double-, or half-precision floating-point models.

Video demonstration

Model-Based FPGA and ASIC Design in the Context of Functional Safety

How to design and implement signal processing, control design, and vision algorithms on FPGA, ASIC and SoC while adhering to functional safety standards such as ISO 26262, IEC 61508 or IEC 62304.

Video

HDL Coder Self-Guided Tutorial

This tutorial will guide you through the steps necessary to implement a MATLAB algorithm in FPGA hardware.

Document and examples

Methodology Guide for Learning and Evaluating HDL Coder

These guidelines will help you adopt HDL Coder for your design and include examples to illustrate selected concepts.

Document and examples

DSP for FPGAs

This three-day course will review DSP fundamentals from the perspective of implementation within the FPGA fabric.

Instructor-Led training

Generating HDL Code from Simulink

This two-day course shows how to generate and verify HDL code from a Simulink model using HDL Coder and HDL Verifier.

Instructor-Led training

HDL Coder Documentation

Learn how to generate VHDL and Verilog code for FPGA programming or ASIC prototyping and design.

Documentation

Hardware Implementation of High-Performance FFT Algorithms on FPGAs

Using the inbuilt block parameters of the DSP HDL Toolbox FFT block, engineers can quickly explore architecture implementations, simulate hardware latency, and stream incoming data in sample- or frame-based processing to meet high-speed requirements.

Video

FPGA, ASIC, and SoC Development with MATLAB and Simulink

Learn how high-level design in MATLAB and Simulink allows you to shorten the design and verification time on ASIC and FPGA projects. HDL Coder provides this design environment and HDL Verifier links to industry-leading verification tools for design v

Video

Verification of VHDL and Verilog

Improve RTL Verification by Connecting to MATLAB

Generate SystemVerilog DPI components to speed verification environment creation, debug issues with cosimulation between MATLAB or Simulink and HDL simulation, and learn how to eliminate bugs much earlier through broader collaboration.

Recorded webinar

Generating DPI-C Models from MATLAB Using HDL Verifier

Generate a SystemVerilog DPI-C reference model for use in UVM simulation from MATLAB using HDL Verifier.

Video demonstration

Generate SystemVerilog DPI for Analog Mixed-Signal Verification

Export analog/mixed-signal Simulink models into your SystemVerilog simulator.

Video

Import HDL for Cosimulation with Simulink

Use HDL Verifier to import handwritten or legacy VHDL or Verilog for cosimulation with Simulink.

Video demonstration

Using Custom Boards for FPGA-in-the-Loop Verification

Perform FPGA-based verification with custom boards using MATLAB and Simulink as test benches.

Video demonstration

Using FPGA Data Capture to debug a design

This tutorial shows how to insert functionality to extract data from an FPGA prototype for debugging in MATLAB and Simulink.

Blog post

MATLAB as AXI Master with Xilinx FPGA and Zynq SoC Boards

MATLAB as AXI Master in HDL Verifier provides read/write access to on-board memory locations on Xilinx^® FPGA and Zynq^® SoC boards from a MATLAB session. See how it’s used to control an IP core generated by HDL Coder on an Xilinx Kintex^®-7 FPGA.

Video demonstration

HDL Verifier Documentation

Learn how to test and verify Verilog and VHDL designs for FPGAs, ASICs, and SoCs using HDL simulators and FPGA boards.

Documentation

SoC and Application-Specific Topics

Designing a Datapath from an FPGA to a Processor with SoC Blockset: Modeling and Simulation

Use SoC Blockset to design and simulate applications with FPGA and processor algorithms and memory interfaces before deploying to hardware.

Videos

Programming Intel SoC FPGAs with Embedded Coder and HDL Coder

Use MATLAB and Simulink to program Intel SoC FPGAs in a prototyping workflow.

Video demonstration

Deploying 5G NR Wireless Communications on FPGAs: A Complete MATLAB and Simulink Workflow

Whitepaper

Software-Defined Radio using MATLAB and Simulink

Learn about capturing and processing wireless data in real time using MATLAB and Software Defined Radio (SDR) platforms.

Recorded webinar

Developing Radio Applications for RFSoC with MATLAB & Simulink (4 videos)

See how to design and implement a range-Doppler radar on the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC platform. Simulate the effects of accessing external memory and task scheduling, then verify behavior with code generation and deployment.

Video

Vision Processing for FPGA (5 videos)

Learn the considerations, workflow, and techniques for targeting a vision processing algorithm to FPGA hardware.

Video series

Deploying Deep Learning on Embedded Devices - When FPGAs Make Sense

Learn how to design deep learning, computer vision, and signal processing applications and deploy to Xilinx Zynq FPGAs, NVIDIA GPUs, and CPUs. Prototype deep learning networks in your FPGA-based applications with the new MATLAB based workflow.

Video

Certification of a Flight Control System Implemented on an SoC

Learn how you can use Model-Based Design to develop a flight control system involving software (C code) and an FPGA (HDL code) implemented on an SoC (system on a chip).

Video

CPU, FPGA, and I/O Solutions for Real-Time Simulation and Testing with Simulink

The goal of the webinar is to provide an overview of the real-time simulation and testing (RTST) solution from MathWorks and Speedgoat for RCP/HIL. Take your control design from a desktop simulation and test it in real time with hardware and I/O.

Recorded webinar

FPGA-based Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Simulation for Power Electronics

Learn how HDL Coder can implement a Simscape model in HDL code for Hardware-in-the-Loop testing on an FPGA in a Speedgoat real-time target machine.

Recorded webinar

Programming Xilinx Zynq SoCs with MATLAB and Simulink

This hands-on, two-day course focuses on developing and configuring models in Simulink and deploying on Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs.

Instructor-Led training

Software-Defined Radio with Zynq using Simulink

This hands-on, one-day course focuses on modeling designs based on software-defined radio in MATLAB and Simulink and configuring and deploying on the ADI RF SOM.

Instructor-Led training

Deploy Motor Control Algorithms to FPGA – Overview

Learn why motor control engineers are considering FPGAs and SoCs for their next design and how they are using Simulink to accomplish this with minimal to no FPGA programming.

Video demonstration