MicroZed Chronicles: Artix UltraScale+ and Opal Kelly XEM8320
We have created projects and blogs on most AMD families over the years but have never created one for the Artix UltraScale+ (AUP) FPGA....
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Richard Harriss
- Aug 25
- 13 min
Estimating Engineering Projects
Developing complex systems is a risky business; around one third of all complex engineering projects will fail; two-thirds of engineering...
Adam Taylor
- Aug 23
- 5 min
MicroZed Chronicles: UIO Part One - Introduction and Set Up
Last week we looked at how we could use spidev and I2Cdev to work with devices which use SPI or I2C interfaces. These are commonly used...
Adam Taylor
- Aug 16
- 9 min
MicroZed Chronicles: IOCTL SPI, I2C and PetaLinux
Regular readers of this blog and my Hackster projects will note that I tend to use either bare metal applications or PYNQ when developing...
Adam Taylor
- Aug 1
- 2 min
Graduate FPGA Engineer Role.
Adiuvo are looking for a graduate engineer to join our awesome team to help develop FPGA, Embedded Software and Electronics. About Adiuvo...
Adam Taylor
- Jul 12
- 4 min
MicroZed Chronicles: UltraScale and UltraScale+ Clock Division
Last week we looked at how we could use 7 series clocking resources to provide integer clock division without using MMCM. In this week’s...
Adam Taylor
- Jul 5
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Clock Structures and Clock Division
Many of our FPGA designs are multi-clock, meaning several clocks within the design, which can introduce clock domain crossing challenges....
Adam Taylor
- Jun 21
- 5 min
MicroZed Chronicles: 10 Years and 500 Posts
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...
Adam Taylor
- Jun 7
- 4 min
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...
Adam Taylor
- May 31
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Sneak Peek Analog Discovery 3
Over the years working as both a FPGA developer and author of this blog, I have found it very useful to have a range of test equipment....
Adam Taylor
- May 24
- 4 min
MicroZed Chronicles: FPGA Development Life Cycle
In this blog, we often talk about detailed design features or aspects of FPGA or heterogeneous SoC design. This allows us to learn about...
Adam Taylor
- May 3
- 3 min
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...
Adam Taylor
- Apr 24
- 3 min
Coral Micro Dev Board
Along side FPGA development I am also interested in Microprocessors, especially those which can be used for edge applications. A few...
Adam Taylor
- Apr 19
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: A look at the DSP58
We looked at fixed point math a few weeks ago and we’ve also previously looked at how we can use DSP48 in both 7 series and UltraScale+...
Adam Taylor
- Apr 5
- 4 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Glitch Filtering
Our programmable logic designs are often deployed in applications which can be electrically noisy. This noise can affect the signals that...
Adam Taylor
- Mar 29
- 4 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Getting Started Part Three
Lately we have been discussing helpful tips and tricks, the best development boards and even the best books to reference if you’re...
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
- Feb 22
- 4 min
MicroZed Chronicles: SW Development with Vitis and Visual Studio Code
A lot of my FPGA development takes place within Visual Studio Code where I use it with TerosHDL to create HDL and cocotb for...
Adam Taylor
- Feb 17
- 2 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Hotstate and Programmable State Machines
We often use finite state machines (FSM) when we want to implement control structures in our programmable logic structures. As complexity...
Adam Taylor
- Jan 25
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Integration and Debugging System
Over the last few weeks, we have been working to create a simple system which allows debugging from a UART into an AXI Lite network. This...
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