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Getting up and running with the K24 SoM
Readers of the blog will know I am a huge advocate of System on Modules (SoM) like the K26, MicroZed, PicoZed, UltraZed and of course the...
Jan 24, 20244 min read


GateMate FPGA Tool Chain
A few weeks ago we looked at the GateMate FPGA from Cologne Chip . In this blog we are going to explore the GateMate FPGA tool chain and...
Jan 8, 20244 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Consulting Advice – IT Infrastructure/Tools Etc.
Over the last few months, I have written several blogs which examine the key aspects of setting up and running your own...
Dec 27, 20234 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: ePaper Testing and Integration
In our last blog we discussed an E Ink / ePaper driver that I had designed. Today we are going to discuss how to integrate it with a Zynq...
Dec 20, 20234 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: ePaper Interface
The great thing about FPGAs is that they allow us to create very efficient interfaces for a range of applications. I recently came across...
Dec 13, 20234 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Leonidas Board
Learning how to develop FPGAs and embedded systems can be a challenge so I like to think that this blog has provided significant support...
Nov 29, 20234 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Introducing Vitis Unified IDE
If you’ve been working with Vitis 2023.1, you’ll already be aware that a new Vitis Unified Integrated Design Environment (IDE) was...
Nov 1, 20236 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Five key considerations when growing your business
A couple of months ago, I wrote a blog about the lessons I have learned setting up my own engineering business. This original blog...
Oct 11, 20235 min read


Estimating Engineering Projects
Developing complex systems is a risky business; around one third of all complex engineering projects will fail; two-thirds of engineering...
Aug 25, 202314 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: IOCTL SPI, I2C and PetaLinux
Regular readers of this blog and my Hackster projects will note that I tend to use either bare metal applications or PYNQ when developing...
Aug 16, 20239 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Introducing AMD Spartan™ UltraScale+™ FPGAs
One of the great things about programmable logic is its versatility. It is at the heart of a range of systems from handheld embedded...
Aug 2, 20234 min read


Graduate FPGA Engineer Role.
Adiuvo are looking for a graduate engineer to join our awesome team to help develop FPGA, Embedded Software and Electronics. About Adiuvo...
Aug 1, 20232 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: UltraScale and UltraScale+ Clock Division
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...
Jul 12, 20234 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Clock Structures and Clock Division
Many of our FPGA designs are multi-clock, meaning several clocks within the design, which can introduce clock domain crossing challenges....
Jul 5, 20233 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: 10 Years and 500 Posts
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...
Jun 21, 20235 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Ethernet on the Digilent Arty A7
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...
Jun 7, 20234 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Sneak Peek Analog Discovery 3
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....
May 31, 20233 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: FPGA Development Life Cycle
In this blog, we often talk about detailed design features or aspects of FPGA or heterogeneous SoC design. This allows us to learn about...
May 24, 20234 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Dynamic Clocking
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,...
May 17, 20234 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Digilent Eclypse Z7 Board
There is a wide range of development boards on the market today. Some are ideal for beginners who are just learning programmable logic or...
May 3, 20233 min read
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