Embedded Systems Software Design

This course introduces the concepts, tools, and techniques required for software design and development for the AMD Zynq™ System on a Chip (SoC), Zynq UltraScale+™ MPSoC, and Versal™ adaptive SoC architectures using t...

Course Description

This course introduces concepts, tools, and techniques for software design and development for AMD Zynq™ SoC, Zynq UltraScale+™ MPSoC, and Versal™ adaptive SoC architectures using the AMD Vitis™ Unified IDE. It covers BSP customization, device driver usage, software application development, debugging, integration, and best practices for making effective design decisions.

The emphasis of this course is on:

• Reviewing the basics of the Vitis Unified IDE
• Customizing board support packages (BSPs) for resource access and management of the AMD Standalone library
• Utilizing device drivers effectively
• Developing software applications for available processors
• Debugging and integrating user applications
• Employing best practices to enable good design decisions

Training Duration

31 hours

Additional Information

• Number of Chapters: 21
• Number of Labs: 12
• Number of Demos: 2
• Current Version: 2024.1

What's New

• All labs have been updated to the latest software versions

Chapters

Chapter 1

• Overview of Embedded Software Development

Chapter 2

• Embedded UltraFast Design Methodology

Chapter 3

• Zynq-7000 SoC Architecture Overview

Chapter 4

• Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC Architecture Overview

Chapter 5

• Driving the AMD Vitis Unified IDE

Chapter 6

• Debugging Using the AMD Vitis Unified IDE

Chapter 7

• Bare-metal Application Development

Chapter 8

• FAT File System for Standalone

Chapter 9

• Using Linker Scripts

Chapter 10

• Introduction to Interrupts

Chapter 11

• Software Interrupts: Writing

Chapter 12

• Operating Systems Introduction and Concepts

Chapter 13

• Linux – A High-Level Introduction

Chapter 14

• Linux Software Application Development

Chapter 15

• Driving the PetaLinux Tool

Chapter 16

• Booting Overview

Chapter 17

• Software Profiling Overview

Chapter 18

• Understanding Device Drivers

Chapter 19

• Custom Device Drivers

Chapter 20

• Debugging Using Cross-Triggering

Chapter 21

• Embedded Systems Software Design Full Course Quiz