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MicroZed Chronicles: Vivado Simulator Code and Functional Coverage
While writing the HDL is often the easy element of FPGA development, the most challenging and time-consuming element can be verification....
Apr 26, 20234 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Glitch Filtering
Our programmable logic designs are often deployed in applications which can be electrically noisy. This noise can affect the signals that...
Apr 5, 20234 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Getting Started Part Three
Lately we have been discussing helpful tips and tricks, the best development boards and even the best books to reference if you’re...
Mar 29, 20234 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: From UART to AXI Lite Debug Access
Last week we examined how we could create a UART with AXI Stream interfaces to enable access to AXI buses in device for debugging. In...
Jan 11, 20239 min read


High-speed serial transceivers in PolarFire FPGAs
Introduction As part of our ongoing series of blog posts on high-speed serial transceivers we are going to look at how to create a...
Jan 9, 20236 min read


Lattice Propel RISC-V, Part Two Software Development.
A few weeks ago, we examined how we could create the hardware element of a RISC-V processor using Lattices Propel tool. The culmination...
Jan 6, 20234 min read


Using RPI Pico for System & FPGA Integration
Several times in recent blogs and posts on LinkedIn and Twitter I have mentioned that at Adiuvo we use a lot of RPI Pico’s for hardware...
Dec 30, 20223 min read


High-speed transceivers in Xilinx FPGAs
Introduction It is a common problem in FPGA design to have to send high-bandwidth data (such as video) between two different FPGAs. ...
Dec 15, 20229 min read


Doing FPGA Cheaper, Better, Faster– Yes You Can Do All Three
Model-based engineering enables engineers to cut down development times by a factor of 5 while maintaining the highest levels of quality.
Nov 30, 20225 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Free Webinars, Workshops, Tutorials and App Notes
One of my passions is sharing information about how we can develop better, more effective FPGA designs. This passion is the driving force...
Nov 23, 20223 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Stream FIFO
A few months ago, we looked at the AXI Stream FIFO. The AXI Steaming FIFO allows developers to be able to access AXI Streams from AXI...
Nov 16, 20223 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: New Artix and Zynq UltraScale+ Family Members
It is always exciting when new devices are introduced, and this week, AMD Xilinx announced two new devices into the already popular...
Nov 9, 20223 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: 7 Series DDR3 Debugging
It’s common for many custom FPGA board developments to contain a DDR3 memory. Of course, when we develop a custom board, we need to...
Nov 2, 20222 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Cocotb, AXI Streams and AXI-Lite Slaves
On my journey exploring how Cocotb works on a range of interfaces, this week I am going to look at how we can work with AXI Lite and...
Oct 5, 20223 min read


Nios V/m software development
A few weeks ago, we looked at how we could build the hardware element of our Nios V processor using Quartus Prime and Platform Designer....
Oct 3, 20223 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: MATLAB, Model Composer, and the Avnet ZUBoard
Over the last few weeks, I have been creating a course centered around the Avnet ZUBoard which will be like the MiniZed and Ultra96-V2...
Sep 28, 20222 min read


Creating a Nios V/m Hardware Subsystem
In our last blog, we looked at the new Nios V soft-core processor for use in our Intel FPGAs. In this blog, we are going to explore how...
Sep 19, 20222 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Getting Started with Cocotb
Verification of both the modules and top-level testing is often more complex and time consuming than creating the HDL. Previously, we’ve...
Sep 7, 20225 min read


Using Blue Pearl Visual Verification Suite to Find CDC
A few weeks ago, we talked about how we could synchronise between clock domains in Vivado , I also noticed a couple of questions on...
Sep 1, 20223 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: Memory Scrubbing
One of the great things about the BRAM in Xilinx FPGAs is its ability to implement error correcting codes (ECC) on the data stored...
Aug 31, 20223 min read
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