MicroZed Chronicles: Video Frame Buffer Write
When I’ve previously created image processing blogs or applications, I have tended to use the Video Direct Memory Access (VDMA) module to...
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Adam Taylor
- Oct 17, 2022
- 3 min
Adiuvo Certus NX Space Development Board
The announcement earlier this year on the collaboration between CAES and Lattice Semiconductor on the availability of space grade...
Adam Taylor
- Oct 12, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: 7 Series to 2035 and beyond!
A few days ago, I noticed that AMD Xilinx had published a blog stating that 7 series devices would be available beyond 2035. I must admit...
Adam Taylor
- Oct 5, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Cocotb, AXI Streams and AXI-Lite Slaves
On my journey exploring how Cocotb works on a range of interfaces, this week I am going to look at how we can work with AXI Lite and...
Adam Taylor
- Oct 3, 2022
- 3 min
Nios V/m software development
A few weeks ago, we looked at how we could build the hardware element of our Nios V processor using Quartus Prime and Platform Designer....
Adam Taylor
- Sep 28, 2022
- 2 min
MicroZed Chronicles: MATLAB, Model Composer, and the Avnet ZUBoard
Over the last few weeks, I have been creating a course centered around the Avnet ZUBoard which will be like the MiniZed and Ultra96-V2...
Adam Taylor
- Sep 21, 2022
- 4 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Cocotb and AXI
A few weeks ago, we looked at the python-based cocotb framework. In that blog, we looked at a simple memory scrubber created around a XPM...
Adam Taylor
- Sep 19, 2022
- 2 min
Creating a Nios V/m Hardware Subsystem
In our last blog, we looked at the new Nios V soft-core processor for use in our Intel FPGAs. In this blog, we are going to explore how...
Adam Taylor
- Sep 14, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Avnet ZUBoard – Temperature Sensor
Ever since the previous overview, I’ve had the Avnet ZUBoard 1CG sitting on my desk. I also just purchased a FLIR C5 thermal imaging...
Adam Taylor
- Sep 7, 2022
- 5 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Getting Started with Cocotb
Verification of both the modules and top-level testing is often more complex and time consuming than creating the HDL. Previously, we’ve...
Adam Taylor
- Sep 1, 2022
- 3 min
Using Blue Pearl Visual Verification Suite to Find CDC
A few weeks ago, we talked about how we could synchronise between clock domains in Vivado, I also noticed a couple of questions on r/FPGA...
Adam Taylor
- Aug 31, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Memory Scrubbing
One of the great things about the BRAM in Xilinx FPGAs is its ability to implement error correcting codes (ECC) on the data stored...
Adam Taylor
- Aug 29, 2022
- 2 min
Rapid Silicon : Raptor Deep Dive
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...
Adam Taylor
- Aug 23, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: 10 Rules for HDL Development.
Writing good, portable, reusable HDL code, that enables the synthesized design to implement at the desired frequency can definitely be a...
Adam Taylor
- Aug 16, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Thinking about Clocks.
When I started my design career twenty plus years ago, one of the very simple rules we had for significantly smaller and less flexible...
Adam Taylor
- Aug 10, 2022
- 4 min
MicroZed Chronicles: MATLAB / Simulink HDL Coder
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....
Adam Taylor
- Aug 3, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: The Avnet ZUBoard 1CG
In early June Avnet announced the ZUBoard 1CG, as a compliment to the Ultra96V2 and MiniZed development boards and UltraZed and PicoZed...
Adam Taylor
- Jul 29, 2022
- 3 min
Raptor – Rapid Silicon’s Open-Source Tool Chain
One of the game changing elements of the announcement from Rapid Silicon was that the entire tool chain would be based on open-source...
Adam Taylor
- Jul 27, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: UltraScale IO Resources
I have recently come across an interesting requirement from a customer that includes driving high-energy systems with a series of pulses...
Adam Taylor
- Jul 25, 2022
- 2 min
Nios V Introduction
We looked at the Agilex Transceiver-SoC Development Board in the last blog. Besides the great capability of this board, one of the main...
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