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...

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...

This week at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, AMD announced the next in the series of their very popular Kria SOM platform, the K24. The Kria K24...

One of the great things about programmable logic is its versatility. It is at the heart of a range of systems from handheld embedded...

There are a range of boutique companies developing FPGAs aimed at addressing low to medium-density devices. Cologne Chip is a German...

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....

We often use finite state machines (FSM) when we want to implement control structures in our programmable logic structures. As complexity...

Over the last few weeks, I have been working on commissioning the Nexus Certus™-NX LFD2NX-40 development board. You can find a previous...

The announcement earlier this year on the collaboration between CAES and Lattice Semiconductor on the availability of space grade...

A few weeks ago, we looked at took a high-level view of the open-source tools which are combined to create the Rapid Silicon Raptor tool...

In early June Avnet announced the ZUBoard 1CG, as a compliment to the Ultra96V2 and MiniZed development boards and UltraZed and PicoZed...

Rapid Silicon is bringing open source to the FPGA space with the introduction of it's Gemini device family and Raptor EDA environment.

A couple of weeks ago I received the Mimas and Narvi development boards from Numato Labs, both containing Xilinx 7 series devices. The...

As readers of this blog will know, my company does a lot of design and development in the space industry. This includes developing FPGA...

In the first instalment of this Versal miniseries, I briefly introduced the architecture of the Versal devices before showing a simple...

There are several FPGA use cases where a softcore processor is beneficial to the overall solution. These can include anything from...

Having an embedded Linux operating system is critical for Xilinx heterogeneous SoCs to be able to achieve their full potential. The...

I have talked about my love of PYNQ for rapid prototyping of applications both commercially and for fun projects on several occasions in...

We have looked at many development boards that are based on Xilinx FPGAs and SoCs during the eight years this blog has been running....