FPGA programming for Optical Systems Experiments
From June 1-13 to September 19-30, 2016 – TeCIP Institute
A lecture series entitled “FPGA programming for Optical Systems Experiments” will be held by Dr. Roberto Proietti from University of California, Davis, from June 1st to June 13th and from September 16th to September 30th.
The lectures will be held at the Institute of Communication, Information and Perception Technologies, Via G. Moruzzi 1, loc. San Cataldo - Area CNR - Pisa.
Abstract
The Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is a very useful tool for students and researchers working in optical networking and optical systems areas. The goal of the four-week course is to introduce and stimulate the interest of MAPNET students as well PhD students and Postdocs to FPGA programming. The course will teach FPGA programming using a learn-by-doing approach applied to a few practical examples of optical systems experiments including tunable lasers wavelength calibration and switching, recirculating loop for long-distance transmission, and optical switching for datacenters. Hardware demonstrations will make use of Spartan 3A and Virtex5 Xilinx FPGA boards as well as fast tunable laser boards.
The short course is valid for 2 credits for PhD students.
For organisational reasons, please confirm your willingness to participate via email to a.bigi@sssup.it by Monday, May the 30th and specify if you intend to undergo the final examination in order to obtain the corresponding credits.
Program
June 1 3pm – 5 pm @Grey Room
Course introduction and overview of FPGAs and EDA software
June 6 11 am – 1 pm @Grey Room
RS232 serial interface: Gate-level combinational circuits, RT-level combinational circuits, Regular sequential circuits, Finite state machines (FSM)
June 9 11 am – 1 pm @Grey Room
Optical Systems Experiment 1: Tunable Laser Wavelengths Calibration
June 10 11 am – 1 pm @Grey Room
Optical Systems Experiment 2: Tunable Laser Wavelengths Switching
June 13 9 am – 11 am @Systemlab
Optical Systems Experiment 3: Recirculating Loop Controller
September 19 11 am – 1 pm @Blue Room
High-speed Rocket I/O Transceiver IP core (Xilinx)
September 23 11 am – 1 pm @Blue Room
Optical Systems Experiment 4: 16-bit optical interconnect and switching system based on arrayed waveguide grating routers (AWGRs)
September 26 11 am – 1 pm @Blue Room
Optical Systems Experiment 4: 16-bit optical interconnect and switching system based on arrayed waveguide grating routers (AWGRs)
September 28 2 pm – 4 pm @Blue Room
Optical Systems Experiment 4: 16-bit optical interconnect and switching system based on arrayed waveguide grating routers (AWGRs)
September 30 11 am – 1 pm @Blue Room
Final exam
Short Bio
Roberto Proietti received the M.S. degree in telecommunications engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree in optical communication systems and networking from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, in 2009. He is currently a Project Scientist with the Next Generation Networking Systems Laboratory, University of California, Davis, CA, USA. His research interests include optical switching technologies and architectures for supercomputing and data center applications, high-spectrum efficiency coherent transmission systems and elastic optical networking, and radio over fiber systems.