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MicroZed Chronicles: FPGA Horizons
Back in February, I announced the first dedicated FPGA conference, to be held in London on October 7th. Once we had settled on a name,...
Oct 8, 20254 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Boundary Scan
Recently we have been developing numerous boards based around AMD devices from our Spartan 7 and RPI2040 based embedded system board, to...
Oct 1, 20254 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: SFP, SFP+ and QSFP
FPGAs are great, they allow us to process data at rates unachievable by any other means. However, this comes with a challenge: we need to...
Sep 24, 20254 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Chip2Chip
Recently, I’ve been looking at a project that uses Aurora to transfer data over fibre as fast as possible from one FPGA to another. The...
Sep 17, 20254 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Versal AI Engines
Over the last few months I have been doing a lot of work with Versal devices and the AI Engines provided on devices like the XCV2302 and...
Sep 10, 20255 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: SCU35 and Accelerometer.
Recently, I have been doing a lot of work with the SCU35 and the Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA it features. Much of this work revolves around...
Sep 3, 20254 min read
Building our First Agilex 3 Application
On our journey of Agilex 3 exploration to date we have provided an overview of the Agilex 3 family and examined key aspects we need to...
Aug 28, 20256 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Design Reuse in IP Integrator
One project we have in the pipeline involves the need to transfer data from one FPGA to another over a fibre link with minimal delay....
Aug 27, 20254 min read
MicroZed Chronicles : What do I actually do?
I am a regular contributor to many FPGA channels. A few days ago, someone posted a question about what FPGA consultants actually do. The...
Aug 20, 20255 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: MathWorks Deep Learning Processor
One of the things we have been working on recently is a project that examines telemetry on a satellite. This system uses machine learning...
Aug 13, 20254 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Getting to Grips with DSP in FPGA.
Recently I was talking to a good friend of mine and he mentioned that a lot of the FPGA engineers he was talking to lacked DSP...
Aug 6, 20254 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: High Speed Debugging of Logic.
One of the key messages I am keen to always stress is that we should simulate our designs, before testing them in hardware. However there...
Jul 30, 20254 min read
Beyond the Fabric: Designing with Agilex 3 FPGAs on Custom Boards
When we delve into the world of FPGAs, our minds often gravitate towards the logic design, DSP implementation, and of course meeting...
Jul 28, 20254 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Vivado Simulator and Code Coverage.
When it comes to developing FPGAs it is often tempting to write our RTL and then try it, in the lab on the hardware to see how it works....
Jul 23, 20256 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Imaging with AMD Artix™ 7 FPGA & AMD Artix™ UltraScale+™ FPGA
If you follow my Hackster projects , you’ll know that one area that significantly interests me is image processing applications. Two of...
Jul 16, 20254 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Spartan UltraScale+ and the SCU35 Board
The Spartan UltraScale+ family is designed to provide developers at the edge with a wide range of interfacing solutions, coupled with...
Jul 9, 20254 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Embedded Plus+ Architecture.
One thing which has been interesting to me since I first came across it was the embedded+ architecture. Developed by Sapphire Technology...
Jul 2, 20253 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Embedded Software, working with Peripherals.
In this third blog recapping the basics of working with the Zynq MPSoC, we are going to examine how we can work with peripherals within...
Jun 25, 20254 min read
The FPGA turns 40!
This year marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most exciting and interesting aspects of electronic engineering: the FPGA. The first...
Jun 21, 20254 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Building the application SW.
Last week we examined developing the hardware design in Vivado for the ZUBoard, in this design we configured the processing system...
Jun 19, 20255 min read
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