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MicroZed Chronicles: The Importance of Establishing Clear Requirements
Over the years, I have worked on a range of engineering projects in various roles, from being the FPGA engineer, hardware engineer to the...
Jun 19, 20245 min read
GateMate Integrated Logic Analyser
Over the last few months we have been experimenting with the Colonge Chip GateMAte FPGA on the original development board along with the...
Jun 17, 20244 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Alveo Edition, Alveo Versal Example Design, Management Controller.
One of the major differences with the Alveo V80 accelerator card is the implementation of the satellite controller. The satellite...
Jun 14, 20243 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: MicroBlaze V MCS
Last week, we examined the new MicroBlaze V , which is based on the popular RISC-V RV32I Instruction Set Architecture. This enabled me to...
Jun 12, 20244 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Introducing the MicroBlaze Risc-V
One of the things I have been very excited about recently is the MicroBlaze RISC-V or MicroBlaze V as it will be known. The MicroBlaze V...
Jun 5, 20244 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Writing RTL for Timing Closure
Last week, we looked at how we could create a baseline timing closure , which hopefully helps with achieving timing closure. Of course,...
May 29, 20245 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Alveo Versal Example Design
In our first blog and introduction to the new Alveo V80, we examined the features and capabilities of the board itself. In this blog we...
May 24, 20243 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Tackling Timing.
There are many factors that come together to create a successful FPGA design. Not only do we need to have a sensible architecture, IP...
May 22, 20244 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: ZU Board, Zmod AWG, and PYNQ
One of the tasks I have been meaning to accomplish since receiving the Avnet ZU1CG board is connecting the high-speed IO interface with...
May 15, 20245 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Alveo Edition, Introducing the Alveo V80
In this blog series, we have looked at several AMD Versal devices from the Prime (VMK180) and AI Core series (VK190) to the AI Edge...
May 8, 20243 min read
MicroZed Chronicles : CMod A7 and External Memory Controller IP.
Over the years, we have spent a lot of time looking at the Arty series of devices. Outside of the MicroZed, they might be some of the...
May 8, 20243 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Testing Ethernet Performance with iPerf
Last week we looked at our custom Kria carrier card and one of the final tests was to program the clocks using the Skyworks programmer...
May 1, 20244 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Alveo Applications and Python
In this final instalment looking at the Alveo U55C I want to explore how we can work with the Alveo U55C using Python. Using this...
Apr 29, 20244 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Custom K26 Kria Board Design and Bring Up
One of the projects we’ve been working on recently is the development of a custom K26 carrier board. This project is interesting because...
Apr 24, 20245 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Alinx VD100
One of the nice things about writing this blog is that I get to take a look at many new FPGA and SoC boards. A few weeks ago, I received...
Apr 17, 20243 min read
MicroZed Chronicles : Alveo Edition High Speed Interfacing.
So far on this journey of exploring how we can use Alveo cards outside of the traditional flow we have examined creating the reference...
Apr 15, 20245 min read
Altera Agilex 5 Development boards
Understanding the capabilities of a device extends beyond reading about its specifications; as engineers, the true grasp comes from...
Apr 12, 20244 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Using Python to Extract ILA Data
As we look at how to debug our systems, one commonly used approach is to implement an ILA within the design for system observation in the...
Apr 10, 20244 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Linear Feedback Shift Register
As a follow on from last week, one of the techniques I like to use to stimulate or capture data in our FPGA designs is a Linear Feedback...
Apr 3, 20245 min read
Deep Dive on Altera Agilex™ 5 Architecture.
In our previous article, we introduced the Altera Agilex 5 FPGAs. In this article, we delve deeper into three key aspects of the Agilex 5...
Apr 2, 20243 min read
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