MicroZed Chronicles: AXI Stream FIFO IP Core
We looked at the AXI Virtual FIFO Controller in a blog a couple weeks ago and created an example design running on the Arty S7-50 while...
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Adam Taylor
- Apr 6, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: JTAG using a Raspberry Pi Pico
I’m a big fan of the Raspberry Pi Pico with the RP2040 microcontroller and have used it several times to emulate system interfaces on my...
Adam Taylor
- Mar 30, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: AXI Virtual FIFO Controller
FIFOs are versatile tools to use within our designs because they enable us to buffer data when doing signal and image processing. We also...
Adam Taylor
- Mar 23, 2022
- 4 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Xilinx Power Management Libraries (XilPM)
Both the AMD-Xilinx MPSoC and Versal ACAP families have complex internal power structures which consists of domains like the Full Power...
Adam Taylor
- Mar 16, 2022
- 2 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Partial Reconfiguration and Block Diagrams
We introduced partial reconfiguration using very simple RTL a couple of weeks ago. In this blog, we are going to look at how to create a...
Adam Taylor
- Mar 9, 2022
- 2 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Spartan 6 Q & A
A couple of week ago, I held several webinars on how to convert Spartan-6 designs into 7 series devices. There were several interesting...
Adam Taylor
- Mar 2, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Partial Configuration Introduction
Getting the most efficient utilization of our FPGA does not mean that we need to have the logic resources dedicated to all use cases. We...
Adam Taylor
- Feb 23, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Advanced SelectIO Logic Resources
Last week we looked at IDELAY2 and ODELAY2 in 7 series IO, the selectIO which is included in 7 Series, UltraScale and UltraScale+...
Adam Taylor
- Feb 16, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: 7 Series FPGA IDELAY2 / ODELAY2
One of the greatest things about FPGAs is their IO flexibility. This flexibility allows us to recover high-speed signals, align data...
Adam Taylor
- Feb 9, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Versal Address Map and DDR Memory Controller
In order to effectively architect solutions in Versal devices, we first need to understand how each of the elements within the device can...
Adam Taylor
- Feb 2, 2022
- 2 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Kria, PYNQ and Ubuntu Images
A few months ago, Xilinx released official Ubuntu images for the ZCU102, ZCU104, and ZCU106 evaluation kits certified by canonical and...
Adam Taylor
- Jan 26, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Scripting Vivado
Throughout the nine years I’ve been doing this blog, the majority, if not all, of the examples and Hackster projects have been...
Adam Taylor
- Jan 19, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Versal Part Two – Device Architecture
In the first instalment of this Versal miniseries, I briefly introduced the architecture of the Versal devices before showing a simple...
Adam Taylor
- Jan 12, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: MicroBlaze in Spartan-6 (ISE/EDK) and 7 Series (Vivado)
Over the years, I have created MicroBlaze solutions for many Xilinx devices including Spartan-6, 7 series and up. Inserting a MicroBlaze...
Adam Taylor
- Jan 5, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Versal Part One
One of areas I started to explore last year, but never got chance to write more than a single blog on was Versal and the VMK180...
Adam Taylor
- Dec 22, 2021
- 2 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Webinars, Blogs & Projects from 2021
The past 12 months have been rather busy and exciting for the chronicles. In this last post of 2021, I thought I would summarize several...
Adam Taylor
- Dec 15, 2021
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: High-Level Synthesis Interfacing
High-Level Synthesis can provide us a significant advantage when we are working in the data plane (e.g., signal / image processing and...
Adam Taylor
- Dec 8, 2021
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Porting SpaceWire from Spartan-6 to Spartan-7
Space electronics is one of the main areas my consultancy is very active. SpaceWire is a differential high-speed communications protocol...
Adam Taylor
- Dec 1, 2021
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: MiniZed, Accelerometer, I2C and i2C Tools
Embedded systems use a lot of diverse sensors from accelerometers and gyroscopes to magnetometers, vibration, temperature and humidity....
Adam Taylor
- Nov 24, 2021
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Selecting the Correct Device when Migrating from Spartan-6
A few weeks ago, I wrote about migration from Spartan-6 devices to 7 Series devices. This originated from several client questions and...
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