MicroZed Chronicles: Getting Started Part Three
Lately we have been discussing helpful tips and tricks, the best development boards and even the best books to reference if you’re...
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Adam Taylor
- Mar 22
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Open Source VHDL Verification Methodology (OSVVM)
Over the years, we have looked at many different verification frameworks like cocotb and varying approaches when working with AMD AXI...
Adam Taylor
- Mar 15
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Useful Books when Developing with FPGAs
In addition to questions about the best beginner development boards, I am often asked which books I recommend for FPGA developers just...
Adam Taylor
- Mar 8
- 4 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Fixed-Point Math
One of the first articles I ever wrote was about how FPGAs perform fixed-point math. Understanding this is important because FPGA-based...
Adam Taylor
- Mar 1
- 4 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Which Dev Board to Start With?
One of the questions I get asked a lot is which development board is the best for (beginner) FPGA and SOC development. Understandably,...
Adam Taylor
- Feb 22
- 4 min
MicroZed Chronicles: SW Development with Vitis and Visual Studio Code
A lot of my FPGA development takes place within Visual Studio Code where I use it with TerosHDL to create HDL and cocotb for...
Adam Taylor
- Feb 17
- 2 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Hotstate and Programmable State Machines
We often use finite state machines (FSM) when we want to implement control structures in our programmable logic structures. As complexity...
Adam Taylor
- Feb 8
- 5 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Working with Reset
When we are verifying a design or bringing it up on a board, it’s not uncommon for either reset or clocking issues to cause it to not...
Adam Taylor
- Feb 1
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Designing & Debugging DDR4
A few weeks ago, we looked at what to do if you experience issues with DDR3 when bringing up a new board. In this blog, we are going to...
Adam Taylor
- Jan 25
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Integration and Debugging System
Over the last few weeks, we have been working to create a simple system which allows debugging from a UART into an AXI Lite network. This...
Adam Taylor
- Jan 18
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Which Cost Optimized Device?
For many applications, selecting the most appropriate device is critical. Many of our clients are often questioning which device they...
Adam Taylor
- Jan 11
- 8 min
MicroZed Chronicles: From UART to AXI Lite Debug Access
Last week we examined how we could create a UART with AXI Stream interfaces to enable access to AXI buses in device for debugging. In...
Richard Harriss
- Jan 9
- 5 min
High-speed serial transceivers in PolarFire FPGAs
Introduction As part of our ongoing series of blog posts on high-speed serial transceivers we are going to look at how to create a...
Adam Taylor
- Jan 6
- 4 min
Lattice Propel RISC-V, Part Two Software Development.
A few weeks ago, we examined how we could create the hardware element of a RISC-V processor using Lattices Propel tool. The culmination...
Adam Taylor
- Jan 4
- 6 min
MicroZed Chronicles: System Integration and Debugging
As we know, FPGA design and FPGA verification are complex businesses. Then, of course, comes integration, at which time the actual...
Adam Taylor
- Dec 30, 2022
- 3 min
Using RPI Pico for System & FPGA Integration
Several times in recent blogs and posts on LinkedIn and Twitter I have mentioned that at Adiuvo we use a lot of RPI Pico’s for hardware...
Adam Taylor
- Dec 21, 2022
- 5 min
MicroZed Chronicles: GTH Clocking
Last week we looked at configuring and deploying multi-gigabit GTH transceivers using the GTH wizard. One of the key things when using...
Richard Harriss
- Dec 15, 2022
- 9 min
High-speed transceivers in Xilinx FPGAs
Introduction It is a common problem in FPGA design to have to send high-bandwidth data (such as video) between two different FPGAs. ...
Adam Taylor
- Dec 14, 2022
- 8 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Chat GPT and AI coding.
A few months ago, we looked at GitHub Copilot. The tool uses AI to assist with the coding process and it felt a little like pair...
Adam Taylor
- Dec 7, 2022
- 6 min
MicroZed Chronicles: UltraScale+ IO, ODELAY3E and Cascading
We looked recently at the UltraScale+ IO resources which provide a range of capabilities that can be very effective in addressing both...
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