May 27 – 29, 2026
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DevOps for FPGA 101: from version control to hardware-in-the-loop testing

May 28, 2026, 6:00 PM
30m
500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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Talk HDL development tools HDL Development Tools

Speaker

Matteo Vit (Starware Design)

Description

This talk demonstrates that adopting DevOps principles for FPGA projects is neither complex nor prohibitively expensive. Using widely available open-source tools, mature software-style pipelines can be applied to hardware design with meaningful productivity gains.

The presentation will cover a practical end-to-end approach, including:
- Effective use of Git-based version control for HDL, constraints, IP cores, and testbenches
- Automated CI pipelines for synthesis, place-and-route, and bitstream generation
- Testing via simulation
- Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) validation using FPGA boards with CI runners
- Automated firmware loading, test execution, and result reporting for closed-loop verification

The talk concludes with a concrete industrial case study: the ASIC prototyping phase of an edge AI audio processing device.

Talk's Q&A During the talk
Talk duration 25'+12'
Will you be able to present in person? Yes
If we are unable to accommodate your oral presentation, would you be willing to consider presenting a poster instead? No

Author

Matteo Vit (Starware Design)

Presentation materials