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There are a range of boutique companies developing FPGAs aimed at addressing low to medium-density devices. Cologne Chip is a German...

As we have discussed several times in this blog, programmable logic is ideal for the development of image processing systems due to its...

Over the last few weeks, we have looked at some interesting aspects of the 7 series and UltraScale / UltraScale+ clocking buffers. To...

Last week we looked at how we could use 7 series clocking resources to provide integer clock division without using MMCM. In this week’s...

Many of our FPGA designs are multi-clock, meaning several clocks within the design, which can introduce clock domain crossing challenges....

One common question on forums, twitter and r/FPGA is how to go about setting up on your own as a freelancer or consultant. Often the...

In September 2013, I was about to start a new role, as head of electronics at a space imaging developer when what should arrive in the...

Designing a successful system requires not only the implementation of the algorithms within the programmable logic and processing systems...

A couple of weeks ago I was emailed about how to get the ethernet working on the Digilent Arty A7 development board. We have covered this...

Over the years working as both a FPGA developer and author of this blog, I have found it very useful to have a range of test equipment....

In this blog, we often talk about detailed design features or aspects of FPGA or heterogeneous SoC design. This allows us to learn about...

Clocking is at the heart of every FPGA design.. We can spend a lot less time battling the tools if we get the clock architecture right,...

Recently I’ve shared several projects on Hackster which are based around digital filters , math and signal processing . One common...

There is a wide range of development boards on the market today. Some are ideal for beginners who are just learning programmable logic or...

While writing the HDL is often the easy element of FPGA development, the most challenging and time-consuming element can be verification....

Along side FPGA development I am also interested in Microprocessors, especially those which can be used for edge applications. A few...

We looked at fixed point math a few weeks ago and we’ve also previously looked at how we can use DSP48 in both 7 series and UltraScale+...

You might have noticed several posts on the Avnet ZUBoard 1CG over the last six months. This board contains an AMD Xilinx ZU1CG MPSoC...

One of the processor-based solutions that I have had on my shelf to look at for a while now is the Avnet RZ Board. I bought this board...

Our programmable logic designs are often deployed in applications which can be electrically noisy. This noise can affect the signals that...