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MicroZed Chronicles: From Bits to Plots: Visualizing XADC Data with Python
One of the things I enjoy is when people reach out with suggestions for blogs and projects that would help them. A recent suggestion was...
Oct 9, 20244 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Python Scripting Solutions with Vitis
To make my blogs and demonstrations illustrative I often use captures from the graphical user interface. However, professionally as an...
Oct 2, 20244 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Spartan 7 Tile and System Controller.
Over the last few months we have been developing a tile, which contains a Spartan 7 XC7S25 and all of the supporting peripherals...
Sep 25, 20245 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Interviews
Recently, I've seen a lot of questions about how to prepare for interviews, especially for those looking to land their first FPGA job or...
Sep 18, 20245 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Petalinux and the AXI Lite UART
The peripherals we communicate with in embedded systems use a wide range of interfaces from I2C, UART, SPI to Gigabit ethernet and PCIe....
Sep 11, 20243 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Turning Concepts into Reality, The FPGA Screen Challenge
A few weeks ago, I outlined several beginner-friendly FPGA projects to help you get started with your chosen development language....
Sep 4, 20244 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Perfecting Pipelining
One of the main methods of increasing timing performance in our FPGA designs is to implement pipelining. At its heart, pipelining allows...
Aug 28, 20243 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Beyond Basics—Intermediate FPGA Projects
I am often asked in emails and social media such as LinkedIn / (X) Twitter, what projects people learning FPGA should look at that are...
Aug 21, 20244 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: RISC-V based Image Processing
FPGA are excellent for image processing, their parallel nature easily allows us to implement parallel processing stages. Over the years...
Aug 14, 20245 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Sysmon and I2C access
XADC as part of a temperature reporting system which allowed me to demonstrate the power of using a model based approach. One of the...
Aug 7, 20244 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Avnet K24 I/O Development Kit.
Regular readers will know I am big fan of the System of Module approach, we design many into systems and solution for out clients and if...
Jul 31, 20244 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Simulink & Model Based Design.
One of things which helps us accelerate our development times is to leverage model based development. This enables us to work at a higher...
Jul 24, 20245 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Alveo Edition: High Bandwidth Memory.
Over a Over a series of blogs we have been exploring the Alveo V80 board, the Alveo Versal Example Design (AVED) its constituent parts...
Jul 19, 20244 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Technical Risk and Technology Readiness Levels
FPGAs are commonly used across a range of applications from Space, and Aerospace to Automotive, Robotics, and Commercial applications....
Jul 17, 20245 min read


MicroZed Chronicles : QDMA and the V80
So far on our journey of exploring the Alveo V80 we have examined the hardware and software elements necessary for creating the AVED...
Jul 12, 20243 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Automatically Adding Build Version.
Last week we examined how we could work with Git and source control on our FPGA designs. Along with working with Git for source control,...
Jul 10, 20245 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Working with Vivado and Git
One of the skills which FPGA developers need to master is that of working with source control tools such as git. A few months ago I...
Jul 3, 20244 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Delta Sigma DAC Part One
One of the things I love about all AMD FPGA and SoC devices is the inclusion of the XADC / Sysmon ADC. This allows us to monitor not only...
Jun 26, 20244 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: The Importance of Establishing Clear Requirements
Over the years, I have worked on a range of engineering projects in various roles, from being the FPGA engineer, hardware engineer to the...
Jun 19, 20245 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Alveo Edition, Alveo Versal Example Design, Management Controller.
One of the major differences with the Alveo V80 accelerator card is the implementation of the satellite controller. The satellite...
Jun 14, 20243 min read
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