Xilinx PYNQ Hackathon
January 14-15, 2017. NECST Lab, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
What is about?
The Xilinx PYNQ Hackathon is a 48h no-stop competition where participants are going to develop their ideas on the brand-new PYNQ platform. This second edition is oriented to IoT applications (smart buildings, automotive, biomedical field, and so on). The target board will be the PYNQ-Z1 board featuring the ZYNQ XC7Z020-1CLG400C All Programmable SoC, while the participants will leverage Amazon AWS IoT to build their applications.
To subscribe to the event, please fill this form by October 20, 2016. Prior to the event, courses on the following topics will be provided to you in order to prepare for the Hackathon:
- Learn how to pitch your project
- Hands on the PYNQ platform
- Hands on Amazon AWS IoT
Xilinx is the leading provider of All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, MPSoCs, and 3D ICs. Xilinx uniquely enables applications that are both software defined and hardware optimized - powering industry advancements in Cloud Computing, Embedded Vision, Industrial IoT, and 5G. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
The NECST Lab (Novel, Emerging Computing System Technologies Laboratory) comprises a number of different research lines on advanced topics in computing systems, ranging from architectural characteristics, to hardware-software codesign methodologies, to security and dependability issues of complex system architectures (scaling from mobile devices to large virtualized datacenters). Furthermore, the laboratory pursues its "historical" tradition of research in the definition of methodologies and techniques regarding testability, auto-diagnosis and fault tolerance both for hardware architectures and hardware-software systems.
Courses calendar
- November 3, 2016, 5:15 pm - 8:00 pm. Politecnico di Milano, room L.26.16: Introduction to XPH and FPGAs.
- November 8, 2016, 5:15 pm - 8:00 pm. Politecnico di Milano, room L.26.16: Hands on PYNQ.
- November 16, 2016, 5:15 pm - 8:00 pm. Politecnico di Milano, room L.26.15: Hands on PYNQ.
- November 18, 2016, 5:15 pm - 8:00 pm. Politecnico di Milano, room L.26.15: Hands on PYNQ.
- November 29, 2016, 5:15 pm - 8:00 pm. Politecnico di Milano, room L.26.15: Hands on PYNQ.
- December 2, 2016, 5:15 pm - 8:00 pm. Politecnico di Milano, room L.26.15: Hands on PYNQ.
- December 16, 2016, 5:15 pm - 8:00 pm. Politecnico di Milano, room L.26.15: Hands on Amazon AWS IoT.
- December 20, 2016, 5:15 pm - 8:00 pm. Politecnico di Milano, room L.26.15: Hands on Amazon AWS IoT.
Program
| January 14, 2017 | |
| @DEIB Conference room | |
| 09.00 - 09.30 | Welcome |
| 09.30 - 09.45 | Hackathon presentation |
| 09.45 - 10.30 | Xilinx talk |
| @NECSTLab and DEIB seminar room | |
| 10.30 - 11.15 | Boards and sensors assignment |
| 11.15 - 12.30 | Team setup and projects brainstorming |
| @DEIB atrium / PT1 | |
| 12.30 - 13.30 | Lunch |
| @DEIB Conference room | |
| 13.30 - 14.15 | Techedge talk |
| @NECSTLab and DEIB seminar room | |
| 14.15 - 20.00 | work session |
| @DEIB atrium / PT1 | |
| 20.00 - 21.00 | Dinner |
| @NECSTLab lounge | |
| 21.00 - 24.00 | Pitch session (starting from team T1 to team T22) |
| January 15, 2017 | |
| @NECSTLab and DEIB seminar room (meet the Santa at meeting room) | |
| 00.00 - 7.00 | work session + meet the Santa on demand for project status and pitches |
| @DEIB atrium / PT1 | |
| 07.30 - 08.30 | Breakfast |
| @NECSTLab and DEIB seminar room | |
| 08.30 - 12.00 | Work session |
| @DEIB atrium / PT1 | |
| 12.00 - 12.30 | Lunch |
| @NECSTLab and DEIB seminar room | |
| 12.30 - 15.30 | Work session: video and demo setup |
| 15.30 - 17.00 | Projects demo and evaluation + happy hour |
| @DEIB Conference room | |
| 17.00 - 18.00 | Closing remarks and awards assignment |