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One of the great things about the BRAM in Xilinx FPGAs is its ability to implement error correcting codes (ECC) on the data stored...

A few weeks ago, we looked at took a high-level view of the open-source tools which are combined to create the Rapid Silicon Raptor tool...

Writing good, portable, reusable HDL code, that enables the synthesized design to implement at the desired frequency can definitely be a...

When I started my design career twenty plus years ago, one of the very simple rules we had for significantly smaller and less flexible...

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned I had invested in MATLAB and HDL Coder to enable generation of RTL code directly from Simulink models....

In early June Avnet announced the ZUBoard 1CG, as a compliment to the Ultra96V2 and MiniZed development boards and UltraZed and PicoZed...

One of the game changing elements of the announcement from Rapid Silicon was that the entire tool chain would be based on open-source...

I have recently come across an interesting requirement from a customer that includes driving high-energy systems with a series of pulses...

We looked at the Agilex Transceiver-SoC Development Board in the last blog. Besides the great capability of this board, one of the main...

Last week, after we looked at how we could use the AXI IIC IP with PYNQ, I got a question from a reader asking how we work with...

One of the most widely used embedded protocols for low-speed communication between embedded devices is the I2C. We have a choice about...

The Agilex FPGAs and SoC FPGAs are high-performance devices which provide developers a range of options across the three variants of...

Implementing a MicroBlaze processor in a FPGA design is very popular in many applications. The MicroBlaze allows us to handle serial...

One of the critical techniques in an embedded system that enables responsive software is using interrupts. In this series, we have used...

I am very interested in higher levels of abstraction for developing FPGAs and especially algorithms like image processing and control....

Rapid Silicon is bringing open source to the FPGA space with the introduction of it's Gemini device family and Raptor EDA environment.

In our last blog discussing Intel devices, we created a Nios II processor using platform designer before generating the programming files...

One of the great things about FPGAs is their parallel structures and how we can accelerate the algorithms by exploiting the parallel...

Over the last week I noticed a few questions on r/FPGA and from a client on metastability and synchronizing signals coming into the...

One of the projects we are working on now is battery powered and only acts when awakened on a set schedule. This requires the Zynq-7000...