Graduate Diploma in FPGA System Design and Verification

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Graduate Diploma in FPGA System Design and Verification

Your Gateway into the Future of Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing Industry

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Program Outcomes

1 Year Full Time
2 Years Part Time

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Empower Your Semiconductor Career With In-Depth FPGA Design and Verification Expertise.

As the global semiconductor industry expands, India is poised to become a leading innovation hub—and QSMC University’s FPGA System Design and Verification program is the perfect catalyst for this transformation. By integrating this advanced, industry-focused curriculum, Indian engineering institutions can equip the next generation of engineers with the practical skills necessary to excel in areas like automotive, telecommunications, healthcare, and beyond. Our holistic approach covers state-of-the-art design methodologies, world-class verification practices, and strategic industry insights crucial for tomorrow’s innovators. Partnering with QSMC University ensures universities produce market-ready graduates, stay ahead of emerging trends, and accelerate India’s rapidly growing semiconductor revolution.

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FPGA System Design and Verification

Empower Your Semiconductor Career With In-Depth FPGA Design and Verification Expertise.

Why This Course?

QSMC University’s FPGA System Design and Verification program offers one of the most comprehensive learning paths available. If you’re a student or professional aiming to thrive in the ever-evolving semiconductor sector, this course provides a complete ecosystem of design, implementation, and verification skills—ensuring you’re fully prepared for high-level industry roles.

Eligibility:

  • Students pursuing/holding BE/BTech/ME/MTech degrees or involved in research
  • Anyone aiming for a dynamic career in the semiconductor industry

Prerequisites:

  • Understanding of binary numbers and logic gates

Duration: 1 to 1.6 years (Each module spans ~2–3 months)

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Course Modules

Synthesizable SystemVerilog

Build the Foundation for FPGA-Ready RTL
Delve into SystemVerilog constructs specifically tailored for FPGA design. You’ll learn to create testable, high-performance RTL while mastering modeling styles (gate, behavioral, structural), synthesizable finite state machines (FSM), and memory implementations. Explore the Xilinx Vivado Design Suite 2022 flow to integrate real peripheral devices into FPGA designs and optimize for performance.

Key Topics:
  • SystemVerilog data types, operators, and modeling styles
  • Combinational logic, sequential logic, FSM, and memory construction
  • Blocking vs. non-blocking assignments
  • Practical hardware interfacing via FPGA

Designing with the IP Integrator Tool Using Vivado

Seamless Integration of Custom and Prebuilt IP
Master the Vivado IP Integrator for creating sophisticated block designs quickly. Package your own custom IP or integrate third-party blocks while leveraging ILA (Integrated Logic Analyzer) and VIO (Virtual I/O) for effective hardware debugging.

Key Topics:
  • Creating block designs in Vivado
  • IP packaging flow for custom or third-party modules
  • On-chip debugging with ILA and VIO

Design Closure Techniques

Achieve Functional, Timing, and Power Closure—Faster
Use the three pillars of functional, timing, and power closure to streamline the path to a production-ready design. Learn HDL coding best practices, interpret timing summaries, and optimize power consumption using advanced checks and baselining methods.

Key Topics
  • Functional closure, timing closure, and power closure basics
  • Recommended HDL coding methods and verification strategies
  • Baselining design objectives to meet timing targets
  • Evaluating and optimizing power consumption

Fundamentals of Verification with SystemVerilog

Ensuring Robust, Reliable Designs Through Advanced OOP Verification
Go beyond basic HDL checks with object-oriented SystemVerilog. Unlock features like constraint random verification, layered testbench architectures, and scoreboards to rapidly detect and resolve corner cases.

Key Topics:
  • SystemVerilog for RTL verification
  • OOP concepts (inheritance, polymorphism)
  • Generators, drivers, monitors, and scoreboards
  • Constraint random methods for corner-case testing

Projects: Verification of Common Peripherals, Memories, and Bus Protocols

Hands-On Validation of Real-World FPGA Subsystems
Practice verifying data flip-flops, FIFOs, SPI, UART, I2C interfaces, and major bus protocols like APB, AHB, AXI, Wishbone. Realistic projects prepare you to tackle complex verification tasks in any FPGA-based system.

Key Topics:
  • Combinational block verification (adders)
  • Sequential block verification (data flip-flops)
  • FIFO/memory verification
  • Protocol-level checks (APB, AHB, AXI, Wishbone, SPI, UART, I2C)

Fundamentals of UVM for Verification

Elevate Your Verification Approach with a Universal Framework
Shift from basic SystemVerilog verification to Universal Verification Methodology (UVM). Discover how UVM components, sequences, and phases standardize and enhance the verification process across different designs and platforms.

Key Topics
  • UVM objects, components, and phases
  • TLM (Transaction-Level Modeling) communication
  • Configuration databases and virtual sequencers
  • Building a UVM test environment from the ground up

Projects: UVM for Verification

Real-World Application of Advanced UVM Concepts
Apply UVM techniques to verify combinational circuits, sequential blocks, and various communication interfaces (UART, SPI, I2C). Dive into complex bus protocol verification for APB and AXI, learning how real verification teams implement UVM in practice.

Key Topics:
  • UVM-based verification of adders, data flip-flops
  • Communication protocol checks (UART, SPI, I2C)
  • APB, AXI bus verification scenarios
  • Advanced UVM concepts: virtual sequencers, sequence libraries, TLM analysis FIFOs

Register Abstraction Layer (RAL) in UVM

Streamlining Memory and Register Verification in Complex Designs
Learn to implement UVM RAL for seamless register and memory verification. Access your DUT registers via front-door or back-door methods and track coverage metrics to ensure thorough testing.

Key Topics:
  • Implementing UVM RAL for registers/memories
  • Front-door/back-door access mechanisms
  • Predictors (implicit and explicit)
  • Coverage computation for register and memory behaviors

SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA)

Accelerate Debugging and Ensure Temporal Correctness
Harness immediate, deferred, and concurrent assertions to detect sophisticated behavioral bugs in both temporal and non-temporal regions. This module lays the groundwork for assertion-based verification, speeding up design validation.

Key Topics
  • Boolean, sequence, and property operators
  • Concurrent vs. immediate assertions
  • Sampled edge functions and local variable usage
  • Integrating assertions into FSMs and SystemVerilog testbenches

SystemVerilog Functional Coverage

Maximize Verification Completeness with Coverage-Driven Methodologies
Leverage bins, covergroups, and cross coverage to thoroughly validate design scenarios. Learn to focus stimulus generation, ensuring every corner of your design specification is exercised and verified.

Key Topics:
  • Functional coverage fundamentals
  • Implicit, explicit, wildcard, ignore, and illegal bins
  • Reusable covergroups and transition bins
  • Coverage-driven testbenches and cross coverage techniques

NEW MODULE: Advanced SoC Integration on FPGAs

Bridging Hardware and Software for High-Performance Embedded Solutions
As FPGAs evolve into sophisticated SoC platforms, gain practical experience in building embedded systems that integrate custom hardware accelerators with on-chip processors. Learn hardware-software co-design, real-time operating system integration, and profiling/debugging methods.

Key Topics:
  • Introduction to FPGA-based SoC architectures (Zynq, MicroBlaze, RISC-V)
  • Hardware-software partitioning strategies
  • Embedded Linux bring-up and driver development
  • RTOS integration and real-time performance considerations
  • Profiling, debugging, and optimization for SoC design

FPGA System Design and Verification

  • Industry-Relevant Expertise: Acquire modern design and verification methodologies that top companies demand.
  • Hands-On Training: Every module includes practical examples and projects mirroring real-world semiconductor workflows.
  • Holistic Skill Set: Move from foundational SystemVerilog to advanced UVM, SoC integration, and functional coverage.
  • Faster, Better Designs: Learn design closure techniques, power optimization, and verification best practices to accelerate time-to-market.

Transform Your Campus, Transform Careers

By incorporating QSMC University’s FPGA System Design and Verification program, Indian engineering colleges and universities can produce graduates who are:

  1. Industry-Ready: Armed with highly sought-after skills in design, verification, power optimization, and advanced SoC capabilities.
  2. Globally Competitive: Fluent in universal methodologies like UVM and SVA, with exposure to the latest industrial toolchains.
  3. Innovation-Driven: Prepared to fuel R&D efforts in India’s growing semiconductor landscape, propelling the nation toward technological self-reliance.

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Prepare to accelerate your semiconductor career or elevate your institution’s curriculum by partnering with QSMC University. For more details or to begin the enrollment process, reach out to us at:

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  • fabs@qsmcfoundries.com
  • 400 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000
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