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MicroZed Chronicles: Power Design Manager
Designing a successful system requires not only the implementation of the algorithms within the programmable logic and processing systems...
Jun 14, 20233 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: 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


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...
Apr 12, 20233 min read


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,...
Mar 1, 20234 min read


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...
Jan 18, 20233 min read


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...
Nov 14, 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: 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...
Sep 14, 20223 min read


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...
Aug 3, 20223 min read


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...
Jun 1, 20226 min read


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...
May 20, 20224 min read


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...
May 18, 20223 min read


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...
Apr 27, 20223 min read


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...
Apr 20, 20223 min read


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...
Oct 27, 20212 min read


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...
Sep 22, 20213 min read


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....
Sep 1, 20213 min read


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...
Jul 7, 20213 min read


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...
May 26, 20213 min read
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