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MicroZed Chronicles: A Look at the Artix-7-Based xSDR
FPGA Horizons London- October 6th and 7th 2026 - get Tickets here. The $99 Artix UltraScale+ Explorer Board - learn more here I think, for the good of my bank account and my accountant’s sanity, I am going to have to block Crowd Supply on my company network. Last week, another item I had ordered, and might have forgotten about arrived, the xSDR. The xSDR is based around an Artix-7 FPGA coupled with a Lime Microsystems RFIC and is implemented in a compact M.2 format. For ease
Aug 195 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Cmod S7 & RTL Env Sensing
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
Feb 184 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Remote AXI Control via UART
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
Nov 5, 20253 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: 7 Series to 2035 and beyond!
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...
Oct 12, 20223 min read
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