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MicroZed Chronicles: Boundary Scan
Recently we have been developing numerous boards based around AMD devices from our Spartan 7 and RPI2040 based embedded system board, to...
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MicroZed Chronicles: SFP, SFP+ and QSFP
FPGAs are great, they allow us to process data at rates unachievable by any other means. However, this comes with a challenge: we need to...
Sep 244 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Chip2Chip
Recently, I’ve been looking at a project that uses Aurora to transfer data over fibre as fast as possible from one FPGA to another. The...
Sep 174 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Versal AI Engines
Over the last few months I have been doing a lot of work with Versal devices and the AI Engines provided on devices like the XCV2302 and...
Sep 105 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: SCU35 and Accelerometer.
Recently, I have been doing a lot of work with the SCU35 and the Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA it features. Much of this work revolves around...
Sep 34 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Design Reuse in IP Integrator
One project we have in the pipeline involves the need to transfer data from one FPGA to another over a fibre link with minimal delay....
Aug 274 min read


MicroZed Chronicles : What do I actually do?
I am a regular contributor to many FPGA channels. A few days ago, someone posted a question about what FPGA consultants actually do. The...
Aug 205 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: MathWorks Deep Learning Processor
One of the things we have been working on recently is a project that examines telemetry on a satellite. This system uses machine learning...
Aug 134 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Getting to Grips with DSP in FPGA.
Recently I was talking to a good friend of mine and he mentioned that a lot of the FPGA engineers he was talking to lacked DSP...
Aug 64 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: High Speed Debugging of Logic.
One of the key messages I am keen to always stress is that we should simulate our designs, before testing them in hardware. However there...
Jul 304 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Vivado Simulator and Code Coverage.
When it comes to developing FPGAs it is often tempting to write our RTL and then try it, in the lab on the hardware to see how it works....
Jul 236 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Imaging with AMD Artix™ 7 FPGA & AMD Artix™ UltraScale+™ FPGA
If you follow my Hackster projects , you’ll know that one area that significantly interests me is image processing applications. Two of...
Jul 164 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Spartan UltraScale+ and the SCU35 Board
The Spartan UltraScale+ family is designed to provide developers at the edge with a wide range of interfacing solutions, coupled with...
Jul 94 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Embedded Plus+ Architecture.
One thing which has been interesting to me since I first came across it was the embedded+ architecture. Developed by Sapphire Technology...
Jul 23 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Embedded Software, working with Peripherals.
In this third blog recapping the basics of working with the Zynq MPSoC, we are going to examine how we can work with peripherals within...
Jun 254 min read


The FPGA turns 40!
This year marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most exciting and interesting aspects of electronic engineering: the FPGA. The first...
Jun 214 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Building the application SW.
Last week we examined developing the hardware design in Vivado for the ZUBoard, in this design we configured the processing system...
Jun 195 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Back to Basics, Getting Started with 2025.1
It has been a while since we looked at going back to basics and getting started with a simple design in Vivado and Vitis. As the last...
Jun 104 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Scripting
When it comes to professional FPGA development, our designs need to be stored in source control to ensure repeatability. We have looked...
Jun 44 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) Controller
When I started my degree back in 1995, I remember sitting in one of the lecture rooms, listening to one of the lecturers outlining the...
May 287 min read
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