One of the things I enjoy is when people reach out with suggestions for blogs and projects that would help them. A recent suggestion was...

To make my blogs and demonstrations illustrative I often use captures from the graphical user interface. However, professionally as an...

Over the last few months we have been developing a tile, which contains a Spartan 7 XC7S25 and all of the supporting peripherals...

Recently, I've seen a lot of questions about how to prepare for interviews, especially for those looking to land their first FPGA job or...

The peripherals we communicate with in embedded systems use a wide range of interfaces from I2C, UART, SPI to Gigabit ethernet and PCIe....

A few weeks ago, I outlined several beginner-friendly FPGA projects to help you get started with your chosen development language....

One of the main methods of increasing timing performance in our FPGA designs is to implement pipelining. At its heart, pipelining allows...

I am often asked in emails and social media such as LinkedIn / (X) Twitter, what projects people learning FPGA should look at that are...

FPGA are excellent for image processing, their parallel nature easily allows us to implement parallel processing stages. Over the years...

XADC as part of a temperature reporting system which allowed me to demonstrate the power of using a model based approach. One of the...

Regular readers will know I am big fan of the System of Module approach,  we design many into systems and solution for out clients and if...

One of things which helps us accelerate our development times is to leverage model based development. This enables us to work at a higher...

Over a Over a series of blogs we have been exploring the Alveo V80 board, the Alveo Versal Example Design (AVED) its constituent parts...

FPGAs are commonly used across a range of applications from Space, and Aerospace to Automotive, Robotics, and Commercial applications....

A few weeks ago, someone asked me on LinkedIn if I would write a blog about what I do on an average day. The reality is that since...

So far on our journey of exploring the Alveo V80 we have examined the hardware and software elements necessary for creating the AVED...

Last week we examined how we could work with Git and source control on our FPGA designs. Along with working with Git for source control,...

One of the skills which FPGA developers need to master is that of working with source control tools such as git. A few months ago I...

One of the things I love about all AMD FPGA and SoC devices is the inclusion of the XADC / Sysmon ADC. This allows us to monitor not only...

In our previous blog we introduced the Renesas ForgeFPGA, in this blog we are going to walk though the creation of a simple project using...