I thought I would kick off 2025 with a look back at what we had achieved over the last year, it has been one of my busiest years yet and...

One of the main challenges FPGA designers face, especially those new to FPGA design is how to achieve timing closure. While it seems...

The goal of professional FPGA development is to deliver projects on quality, on time, and within budget. Achieving this, however, can be...

One of the things I enjoy is when people reach out with suggestions for blogs and projects that would help them. A recent suggestion was...

Over the last few months we have been developing a tile, which contains a Spartan 7 XC7S25 and all of the supporting peripherals...

Regular readers will know I am big fan of the System of Module approach,  we design many into systems and solution for out clients and if...

FPGAs are commonly used across a range of applications from Space, and Aerospace to Automotive, Robotics, and Commercial applications....

There are many factors that come together to create a successful FPGA design. Not only do we need to have a sensible architecture, IP...

As we look at how to debug our systems, one commonly used approach is to implement an ILA within the design for system observation in the...

In last weeks blog, we looked at one of the most important algorithms ever developed: the FFT. In this week’s blog, we’ll be discussing...

One of the things I’ve been doing recently is working with the Leonidas development board which we developed back in 2023. This board...

A couple of weeks ago we looked at the Trenz TE0950 development board which contains a Versal AI Edge XCVE2302 device in ES1. This means...

One of the questions people often ask me is how to get started on the journey of learning about FPGAs. Of course, everyone’s journey is...

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...

In the 2024 MicroZed Chronicles, we are going to examine Versal in depth with a particular focus on the AI Edge series. We’ve looked at...

Learning how to develop FPGAs and embedded systems can be a challenge so I like to think that this blog has provided significant support...

We will be releasing a new open source development board in a few weeks and will eventually be offering a free training course for it,...

Over the last five years, I have been writing some very in-depth projects on Hackster in addition to my weekly blogs. These projects have...

We have created projects and blogs on most AMD families over the years but have never created one for the Artix UltraScale+ (AUP) FPGA....

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...