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...
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Adam Taylor
- Apr 12
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: ZUBoard 1CG and PYNQ
You might have noticed several posts on the Avnet ZUBoard 1CG over the last six months. This board contains an AMD Xilinx ZU1CG MPSoC...
Adam Taylor
- Mar 1
- 4 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Which Dev Board to Start With?
One of the questions I get asked a lot is which development board is the best for (beginner) FPGA and SOC development. Understandably,...
Adam Taylor
- Jan 18
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Which Cost Optimized Device?
For many applications, selecting the most appropriate device is critical. Many of our clients are often questioning which device they...
Adam Taylor
- Nov 14, 2022
- 3 min
Lattice Propel RISC-V, part one Hardware
Over the last few weeks, I have been working on commissioning the Nexus Certus™-NX LFD2NX-40 development board. You can find a previous...
Adam Taylor
- Nov 2, 2022
- 2 min
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...
Adam Taylor
- Sep 14, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Avnet ZUBoard – Temperature Sensor
Ever since the previous overview, I’ve had the Avnet ZUBoard 1CG sitting on my desk. I also just purchased a FLIR C5 thermal imaging...
Adam Taylor
- Aug 3, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: The Avnet ZUBoard 1CG
In early June Avnet announced the ZUBoard 1CG, as a compliment to the Ultra96V2 and MiniZed development boards and UltraZed and PicoZed...
Adam Taylor
- Jun 1, 2022
- 6 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Zynq Power Management – Wake on Interrupt GPIO
One of the projects we are working on now is battery powered and only acts when awakened on a set schedule. This requires the Zynq-7000...
Adam Taylor
- May 20, 2022
- 4 min
Efinix Trion FPGA and Xyloni Development Board
I have heard several attendees mention Efinix FPGAs at a few conferences I have recently attended. As such, I thought I would take a...
Adam Taylor
- May 18, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Kria Robotics Starter Kit
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...
Adam Taylor
- Apr 27, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: PYNQ-ZU Board
As I have said several times in this blog, I am a massive fan of the PYNQ framework. We use PYNQ and HLS to accelerate our development...
Adam Taylor
- Apr 20, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Numato Mimas and Narvi Boards
A couple of weeks ago I received the Mimas and Narvi development boards from Numato Labs, both containing Xilinx 7 series devices. The...
Adam Taylor
- Oct 27, 2021
- 2 min
MicroZed Chronicles: XADC, IIO and PetaLinux
Recently we examined Industrial Input and Output drivers in PetaLinux when using an ADC on a Pmod. Of course, all Xilinx devices also...
Adam Taylor
- Sep 22, 2021
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Certified Ubuntu on Xilinx SoCs
Having an embedded Linux operating system is critical for Xilinx heterogeneous SoCs to be able to achieve their full potential. The...
Adam Taylor
- Sep 1, 2021
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Real Digital Blackboard
We have looked at many development boards that are based on Xilinx FPGAs and SoCs during the eight years this blog has been running....
Adam Taylor
- Jul 7, 2021
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: The 400th Edition
Back on the 29th September 2013, I sat down and wrote what would become the first blog in this series. It was a simple look at how to...
Adam Taylor
- May 26, 2021
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Kria SoM and Applications
One of the big advantages of the Kria SoM is the ease with which new applications can be created, either around the existing applications...
Adam Taylor
- May 5, 2021
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Custom Board Design? What if something doesn’t work?
A couple of weeks ago I was working to bring up the sensors connected to the I2C and SPI interfaces on the custom SensorsThink Smart...
Adam Taylor
- Apr 2, 2021
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Smart Sensor IOT Board Getting USB Up and Running
The smart sensor IOT board we developed contains several interfaces that really require the use of an operating system to get them up and...
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