RapidWright FPGA 2019 Deep Dive Tutorial

Before starting the tutorials, see Getting Started below to setup your machine.

Tutorial Segment	Time	Purpose
Hello, World	5 mins	Intro to RapidWright within Jupyter Notebook
Create Netlist from Scratch	10 mins	How to build a netlist from scratch
Pipeline Generator	15 mins	How to generate a circuit in RapidWright
Pre-implemented Modules: Part I	15 mins	How to create a pre-implemented module
Pre-implemented Modules: Part II	15 mins	How to use and relocate pre-implemented modules
Probe Re-router	20 mins	Fast probe routing on existing implementation
SAT Router (Linux only)	15 mins	How to use a SAT engine to solve routing congestion
Create and Use an SLR Bridge	20 mins	Combine Vivado and RapidWright generated citcuits

= Jupyter Notebook Tutorial

These tutorials were given in the Sunday afternoon session of FPGA 2019 (February 24th).

Supplimentary Materials:

• Slides from the Sunday morning session: FPGA19-RapidWright-Presentation.pdf

• The invited tutorial paper: FPGA19-RapidWright.pdf

Getting Started

Before attempting the tutorials above, please install and/or setup the following tools:

1. RapidWright 2018.3.1

2. Vivado 2018.3

3. Eclipse or IntelliJ (not required, but mentioned in Pipeline Generator)

4. Jupyter Notebook and the RapidWright Kernel (for Jupyter Notebook tutorials)

5. Download the RapidWright-binder repository by running the following at the command line:

git clone https://github.com/clavin-xlnx/RapidWright-binder.git

6. Start the Jupyter notebook server and point it at your RapidWright-binder directory:

jupyter notebook --notebook-dir=RapidWright-binder

At this point the above Jupyter notebook tutorial links should open properly.