Summary

In this chapter, we started by providing some operational and practical guidance on how to install and use the Xilinx SoC development tools on an Ubuntu Linux VM, built and hosted on Oracle VirtualBox. We revisited the ETS SoC architecture requirements and defined a microarchitecture based on a PP engine that uses a MicroBlaze processor subsystem to implement the Ethernet frames filtering hardware acceleration. We used a Vivado example project preset for a known Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC board as a starting template design, and we also customized the PS block to match the microarchitecture requirements. We extended the template design by building all the required functionalities in the PL block, using IPs from the Vivado library. We went through a full customization process to design the hardware of an embedded system in the PL block based on the MicroBlaze. Additionally, we put in place the necessary infrastructure for the IPC between the Cortex-A9 and MicroBlaze as needed by the...