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MicroZed Chronicles : Zynq, MicroBlaze, answering a question
One of the great things about writing this blog (there are many) is when people as real world questions as they need help. Last week,...
Jan 294 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Sliding Window Filter
One of the things I really enjoy is creating image processing solutions as you might notice from the projects I publish on Hackster. My...
Jan 155 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Accelerating FPGA Design Cycles with IP Cores and Open Libraries
The goal of professional FPGA development is to deliver projects on quality, on time, and within budget. Achieving this, however, can be...
Oct 16, 20243 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Python Scripting Solutions with Vitis
To make my blogs and demonstrations illustrative I often use captures from the graphical user interface. However, professionally as an...
Oct 2, 20244 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Spartan 7 Tile and System Controller.
Over the last few months we have been developing a tile, which contains a Spartan 7 XC7S25 and all of the supporting peripherals...
Sep 25, 20245 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Interviews
Recently, I've seen a lot of questions about how to prepare for interviews, especially for those looking to land their first FPGA job or...
Sep 18, 20245 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Perfecting Pipelining
One of the main methods of increasing timing performance in our FPGA designs is to implement pipelining. At its heart, pipelining allows...
Aug 28, 20243 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Beyond Basics—Intermediate FPGA Projects
I am often asked in emails and social media such as LinkedIn / (X) Twitter, what projects people learning FPGA should look at that are...
Aug 21, 20244 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Avnet K24 I/O Development Kit.
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...
Jul 31, 20244 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Technical Risk and Technology Readiness Levels
FPGAs are commonly used across a range of applications from Space, and Aerospace to Automotive, Robotics, and Commercial applications....
Jul 17, 20245 min read
Logic Gates and Boarding Gates.
A few weeks ago, someone asked me on LinkedIn if I would write a blog about what I do on an average day. The reality is that since...
Jul 16, 20245 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Automatically Adding Build Version.
Last week we examined how we could work with Git and source control on our FPGA designs. Along with working with Git for source control,...
Jul 10, 20245 min read
Delving into Renesas ForgeFPGAs: A Primer on Low-Density Logic Solutions
One of the FPGAs I have wanted to examine since it was announced is the new Renesas ForgeFPGA. These devices offer developers a...
Jun 21, 20243 min read
GateMate Integrated Logic Analyser
Over the last few months we have been experimenting with the Colonge Chip GateMAte FPGA on the original development board along with the...
Jun 17, 20244 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: MicroBlaze V MCS
Last week, we examined the new MicroBlaze V , which is based on the popular RISC-V RV32I Instruction Set Architecture. This enabled me to...
Jun 12, 20244 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Introducing the MicroBlaze Risc-V
One of the things I have been very excited about recently is the MicroBlaze RISC-V or MicroBlaze V as it will be known. The MicroBlaze V...
Jun 5, 20244 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Custom K26 Kria Board Design and Bring Up
One of the projects we’ve been working on recently is the development of a custom K26 carrier board. This project is interesting because...
Apr 24, 20245 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Alinx VD100
One of the nice things about writing this blog is that I get to take a look at many new FPGA and SoC boards. A few weeks ago, I received...
Apr 17, 20243 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Using Python to Extract ILA Data
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...
Apr 10, 20244 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: The CORDIC Algorithm
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...
Mar 13, 20246 min read
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