Sometimes I like to just sit and write RTL and try to create a simple project. Recently, I have been doing a lot of flying again. If you see me on a flight, you can be sure you are in for a turbulent experience, as it seems every flight I take is bumpy (sorry!). For a long while, I have been meaning to run a small experiment and create a compact, portable logging system which records acceleration, rotation, pressure, and temperature. I decided that I could do this using a sma

I’ve been meaning to take a closer look at our new Spartan-7 Tile Rev B and the Tile Carrier Card for a while now. They’ve been sitting on my lab bench while I’ve been wrapping up work from recent conferences and client projects, so this week, I finally found the time. The Spartan-7 Tile Rev B  is an evolution of the original Rev A design. It includes a revised boot-mode selection switch in place of a jumper and features a slightly different pinout to support discrete JTAG. T

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...