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Machine Learning for Industrial Vision – In 30 minutes.
Recently I had an hour between meetings and noticed the Himax WE-I development board sat on top of my docking station. I had put it...
May 28, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Kria SoM and Applications
One of the big advantages of the Kria SoM is the ease with which new applications can be created, either around the existing applications...
May 26, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: RFSoC Studio
One of the most common requests I get via my consultancy is about the RFSoC and how its capabilities can be leveraged. If you haven’t...
May 19, 20212 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Hands On with the Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit
If you missed the announcements and my recent blog , Xilinx now offers a range of production-ready system on modules (SOM) named Kria....
May 12, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Custom Board Design? What if something doesn’t work?
A couple of weeks ago I was working to bring up the sensors connected to the I2C and SPI interfaces on the custom SensorsThink Smart...
May 5, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Working with PYNQ Register Maps
I use PYNQ a lot and one of the things I have been meaning to blog about is how it interacts with hardware. Whether it’s a custom overlay...
Apr 28, 20212 min read
Want to Get Started with ML at the Edge? Get Out Your Smart Phone.
Many machine learning applications, like Amazon’s Alexa Key Word detector or industrial predictive maintenance solutions, are deployed at...
Apr 23, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: First Look at Xilinx Kria SoMs
First look at the Xilinx Kria SoM portfolio, including features and pricing. Watch my exclusive interview with Xilinx on the new products.
Apr 20, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Having Fun with the Basys3 Artix-7 FPGA Development Board
I recently hosted two webinars for Crowd Supply on how to create a fun, breakout Pong-type game on the Basys3 board. The class was not...
Apr 14, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: PetaLinux I2C in the PS and AXI IIC
The sensors on the smart sensor IoT development board are connected to the programmable logic element of the Zynq-7020 device that is...
Apr 9, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Smart Sensor IOT Board Getting USB Up and Running
The smart sensor IOT board we developed contains several interfaces that really require the use of an operating system to get them up...
Apr 2, 20213 min read
Electronic Engineering Guide - A 57 Page Guide
A simple engineering guide which covers Electronic Design Flow Capacitor and Resistor Selection Grounding Power Distribution Thermal...
Mar 26, 20211 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: MIPI Imaging on Zynq - Part 2
With the Vivado application completed, we can export the XSA with the BIT file into a Vitis project.
Mar 24, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: MIPI Imaging on Zynq - Part 1
In a previous installment, we looked at the Trenz ZynqBerry Zero. Let's create a simple image processing system using the MIPI input.
Mar 20, 20213 min read
SensorsThink Smart Sensor IoT Board Schematic
SensorsThink Smart Sensor IoT Board If you have been following along my latest blog posts on Configuring Zynq and Validating Memory for...
Mar 12, 20211 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Validating Your Custom Zynq Board Memory
In this blog, we will explore how to validate a custom Vivado configuration on a Zynq board.
Mar 12, 20212 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Configuring Zynq on a Custom Board
You may have seen my previous posts referencing a book I’ve been writing over the last two years with Dan Binnun and Saket Srivastava on...
Mar 4, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: What to do when Zynq doesn't boot
I thought it would be a good idea to outline a few of the available debug options for when your Zynq-7000 doesn't boot as expected.
Feb 26, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Hello World from Versal and Vitis
For this first Versal blog, let's take a look at how to get a bare metal program up and running so that we can say "hello world".
Feb 18, 20214 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: PYNQ Image for TySOM-3A-ZU19EG
This blog explores the PYNQ image for the TySOM-3A-ZU19EG, the largest device in the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC range.
Feb 11, 20213 min read
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