The FPGA industry is evolving rapidly, playing a central role in AI acceleration, automotive systems, aerospace, 5G infrastructure, and semiconductor prototyping. FPGAs are no longer just used for reconfigurable logic—they are the cornerstone for rapid innovation, enabling time-to-market acceleration, edge intelligence, and chip design verification.
This 10-day FPGA Fabric Design & Architecture Workshop is your gateway to understanding how modern FPGAs are architected from the ground up. You’ll explore what goes inside the fabric—LUTs, MUXes, DFFs, connection boxes, and switchboxes—and how these blocks come together to form a custom logic architecture. Rather than using FPGAs as black-box devices, this workshop teaches you to model your own mini-FPGA fabric using Verilog, gaining an insider’s view of tools like Vivado and simulation workflows.
The FPGA Fabric Design & Architecture Workshop is meticulously designed to go beyond surface-level learning. It brings clarity to the internal structure of FPGAs—something that many professionals use but never truly understand. Each day of the workshop is structured to build a progressive, layer-by-layer understanding of how modern FPGAs work from the transistor level all the way to interconnect logic, and how you can model this behavior using Verilog and simulation tools.
This curriculum focuses on not just how to use an FPGA, but how to think like an FPGA. You’ll simulate the essential logic that makes FPGAs programmable, starting from multiplexers and D flip-flops, building up to CLBs, switchboxes, and full routing networks. This builds a strong design intuition that recruiters from companies like Intel, AMD-Xilinx, Synopsys, and startups in edge-AI and robotics deeply value.
Each topic is paired with hands-on labs and simulations using Vivado, giving learners a real-world, project-ready experience.
Outcome: By the end of the workshop, you’ll be able to design your own FPGA slice architecture and simulate it like a professional RTL designer, making you stand out in interviews, internships, and project submissions.
Kunal Ghosh, the visionary co-founder of VLSI System Design (VSD) Corp. Pvt. Ltd., stands at the forefront of online open-source EDA and hardware design education, particularly in the realm of RISC-V.
With a portfolio of 50 top-tier VLSI online courses, Kunal has enriched the learning journey of over 90,000 students across 153 countries. His expertise extends beyond training; he’s actively involved in pioneering open-source projects and design collaborations with esteemed institutions like IIT Madras, IIT Bombay, IIT Guwahati and IIT Hyderabad.
His current focus is on crafting high-quality open-source Analog/Digital IPs, a groundbreaking endeavor in open-source hardware design. Kunal’s rich industry experience includes roles at Qualcomm and Cadence, specializing in SoC design. He holds a master’s degree from IIT Bombay, where he specialized in VLSI & Nano-electronics, with a focus on sub-100nm Electron Beam Lithography Optimization techniques.
Dr. Nanditha Rao is an Assistant Professor in the VLSI Systems group at IIIT Bangalore. She obtained her PhD in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Bombay in 2017. Her current research interests are in the area of processor architecture, RISC-V based designs, FPGA based designs, FPGA based acceleration of neural networks and radiation tolerant/hardened designs.
Prior to joining for PhD, she worked as a Hardware design engineer (mainly Signal Integrity) at Intel Technologies, Bangalore for a period of 5+ years. At Intel, she was mainly responsible for signal integrity simulations of motherboard interconnects for high-speed differential interfaces such as pci-express, LVDS, DisplayPort, HDMI and so on. She interacted with customers in the Asia Pacific region on motherboard design guidelines and specialized in buffer modeling.
No. A basic understanding of digital logic (like gates, flip-flops, and multiplexers) is sufficient. We start from foundational concepts and guide you step-by-step into Verilog and FPGA architecture.
Not mandatory. All lab exercises and projects are designed to run entirely in simulation using Vivado. If you have access to a board like Basys 3, you can extend the learning to physical testing.
You'll be capable of designing custom FPGA fabric slices, implementing CLBs, MUXes, and switchboxes, and simulating full data paths—ideal for projects in embedded systems, SoC design, and FPGA-based IP development.
Most FPGA courses teach how to use FPGAs. This workshop teaches you how they work internally. You'll gain architect-level insights by building your own simplified FPGA fabric in Verilog.
Yes. All participants who complete the 5-day workshop and submit lab exercises will receive a verified certificate of completion, which you can showcase in resumes, portfolios, and LinkedIn.
VSD, standing as a trailblazing Semiconductor EdTech company and a community-based Technology Aggregator, is revolutionizing the landscape of VLSI Design. With the belief that “Creativity is just connecting things”, VSD has mastered the art of linking the right resources with the community. This unique approach has sparked a significant transformation in the VLSI Design process.
Over the past decade, VSD has made remarkable strides in the open-source semiconductor domain. Our journey includes the development of comprehensive training content, empowering students to design silicon-grade IP/SoC. Notably, we’ve successfully guided these projects through the tapeout cycle via the Google open shuttle program. This achievement is a testament to our commitment to hands-on, practical education.
At VSD, our role extends beyond traditional education. While we didn’t invent EDA tools or design flows, we’ve made them accessible to a wider community. Our mentorship has been instrumental in the development of over 50+ Analog/Digital IPs and solutions. Impressively, 20+ of these have successfully transitioned from concept to Silicon – a clear indicator of our effective approach and the high quality of work produced under our guidance.
We pride ourselves on fostering a community-based revolution in the Semiconductor Industry. By democratizing access to advanced tools and knowledge, VSD is not just educating individuals; we are building a community of innovators poised to lead the next wave of advancements in the semiconductor sector. With VSD, the future of VLSI Design is not just being written; it’s being rewritten by a passionate and empowered community.
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