A few weeks ago, we looked at took a high-level view of the open-source tools which are combined to create the Rapid Silicon Raptor tool...

Writing good, portable, reusable HDL code, that enables the synthesized design to implement at the desired frequency can definitely be a...

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned I had invested in MATLAB and HDL Coder to enable generation of RTL code directly from Simulink models....

I have recently come across an interesting requirement from a customer that includes driving high-energy systems with a series of pulses...

Rapid Silicon is bringing open source to the FPGA space with the introduction of it's Gemini device family and Raptor EDA environment.

Over the last week I noticed a few questions on r/FPGA and from a client on metastability and synchronizing signals coming into the...

FPGAs are great for high performance, low latency, deterministic applications. When it comes to implementation of sequential structures...

I have heard several attendees mention Efinix FPGAs at a few conferences I have recently attended. As such, I thought I would take a...

Over the last few months, we have examined robotics on Kria with the Kria robotics stack (KRS) which enables ROS 2 to be deployed on...

So far on our journey exploring Intel devices, we have examined the range of devices and tool chains used for development. In this blog,...

Over the last few months, we have explored how to migrate from Spartan-6 FPGAs to 7 series and beyond in order to help developers with...

I am a regular reader of many FPGA notice boards . A few days ago, I saw a question about how the DSP48E2 could be used as a...

In our last look at Intel FPGAs and SoCs, we examined the range of devices and gave a brief overview of the architectures and common...

A couple of weeks ago I received the Mimas and Narvi development boards from Numato Labs , both containing Xilinx 7 series devices. The...

Running an embedded systems consultancy is exciting because we get to work with a wide range of applications, devices, and technologies....

We looked at the AXI Virtual FIFO Controller in a blog a couple weeks ago and created an example design running on the Arty S7-50 while...

I’m a big fan of the Raspberry Pi Pico with the RP2040 microcontroller and have used it several times to emulate system interfaces on my...

FIFOs are versatile tools to use within our designs because they enable us to buffer data when doing signal and image processing. We also...

As readers of this blog will know, my company does a lot of design and development in the space industry. This includes developing FPGA...

We introduced partial reconfiguration using very simple RTL a couple of weeks ago. In this blog, we are going to look at how to create a...