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Creating a Nios II Processor
FPGAs are great for high performance, low latency, deterministic applications. When it comes to implementation of sequential structures...
May 30, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: A Look at the AC701 Evaluation Kit
Artix-7 FPGAs are very interesting because they are the first devices with gigabit serial lines (GTP) that can run at 6.6 Gbps. This...
May 25, 20223 min read
Efinix Trion FPGA and Xyloni Development Board
I have heard several attendees mention Efinix FPGAs at a few conferences I have recently attended. As such, I thought I would take a...
May 20, 20224 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Kria Robotics Starter Kit
Over the last few months, we have examined robotics on Kria with the Kria robotics stack (KRS) which enables ROS 2 to be deployed on...
May 18, 20223 min read
Quartus Prime Lite Flow
So far on our journey exploring Intel devices, we have examined the range of devices and tool chains used for development. In this blog,...
May 16, 20224 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Spartan-6 Migration Summary
Over the last few months, we have explored how to migrate from Spartan-6 FPGAs to 7 series and beyond in order to help developers with...
May 11, 20222 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Using a DSP48E2 as a Multiplexer
I am a regular reader of many FPGA notice boards . A few days ago, I saw a question about how the DSP48E2 could be used as a...
May 4, 20226 min read
Intel FPGA Tool Chain Introduction
In our last look at Intel FPGAs and SoCs, we examined the range of devices and gave a brief overview of the architectures and common...
May 2, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: PYNQ-ZU Board
As I have said several times in this blog, I am a massive fan of the PYNQ framework. We use PYNQ and HLS to accelerate our development...
Apr 27, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Numato Mimas and Narvi Boards
A couple of weeks ago I received the Mimas and Narvi development boards from Numato Labs , both containing Xilinx 7 series devices. The...
Apr 20, 20223 min read
Intel FPGAs Overview
Running an embedded systems consultancy is exciting because we get to work with a wide range of applications, devices, and technologies....
Apr 18, 20223 min read
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...
Apr 13, 20223 min read
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...
Apr 6, 20223 min read
Maxim MAX32650FTHR Evaluation Kit
Recently I have been working with a client on a low power AI solution based on microcontroller, for a power management application. One...
Mar 31, 20223 min read
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...
Mar 30, 20223 min read
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...
Mar 23, 20224 min read
Lattice Launches FPGA for Space!
As readers of this blog will know, my company does a lot of design and development in the space industry. This includes developing FPGA...
Mar 18, 20223 min read
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...
Mar 16, 20222 min read
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...
Mar 9, 20222 min read
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...
Mar 2, 20223 min read
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