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...
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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
- 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
- Dec 7, 2022
- 6 min
MicroZed Chronicles: UltraScale+ IO, ODELAY3E and Cascading
We looked recently at the UltraScale+ IO resources which provide a range of capabilities that can be very effective in addressing both...
Adam Taylor
- Nov 23, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Free Webinars, Workshops, Tutorials and App Notes
One of my passions is sharing information about how we can develop better, more effective FPGA designs. This passion is the driving force...
Adam Taylor
- Nov 16, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Stream FIFO
A few months ago, we looked at the AXI Stream FIFO. The AXI Steaming FIFO allows developers to be able to access AXI Streams from AXI...
Adam Taylor
- Oct 18, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Video Frame Buffer Write
When I’ve previously created image processing blogs or applications, I have tended to use the Video Direct Memory Access (VDMA) module to...
Adam Taylor
- Sep 28, 2022
- 2 min
MicroZed Chronicles: MATLAB, Model Composer, and the Avnet ZUBoard
Over the last few weeks, I have been creating a course centered around the Avnet ZUBoard which will be like the MiniZed and Ultra96-V2...
Adam Taylor
- Aug 31, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Memory Scrubbing
One of the great things about the BRAM in Xilinx FPGAs is its ability to implement error correcting codes (ECC) on the data stored...
Adam Taylor
- Aug 23, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: 10 Rules for HDL Development.
Writing good, portable, reusable HDL code, that enables the synthesized design to implement at the desired frequency can definitely be a...
Adam Taylor
- Jun 29, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Processor System to Programmable Logic Interrupts
One of the critical techniques in an embedded system that enables responsive software is using interrupts. In this series, we have used...
Adam Taylor
- Jun 23, 2022
- 2 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Higher Levels of Abstraction
I am very interested in higher levels of abstraction for developing FPGAs and especially algorithms like image processing and control....
Adam Taylor
- Jun 8, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Synchronization & Metastability
Over the last week I noticed a few questions on r/FPGA and from a client on metastability and synchronizing signals coming into the...
Adam Taylor
- May 11, 2022
- 2 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Spartan-6 Migration Summary
Over the last few months, we have explored how to migrate from Spartan-6 FPGAs to 7 series and beyond in order to help developers with...
Adam Taylor
- May 4, 2022
- 6 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Using a DSP48E2 as a Multiplexer
I am a regular reader of many FPGA notice boards. A few days ago, I saw a question about how the DSP48E2 could be used as a multiplexer....
Adam Taylor
- Apr 13, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: AXI Stream FIFO IP Core
We looked at the AXI Virtual FIFO Controller in a blog a couple weeks ago and created an example design running on the Arty S7-50 while...
Adam Taylor
- Apr 6, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: JTAG using a Raspberry Pi Pico
I’m a big fan of the Raspberry Pi Pico with the RP2040 microcontroller and have used it several times to emulate system interfaces on my...
Adam Taylor
- Mar 30, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: AXI Virtual FIFO Controller
FIFOs are versatile tools to use within our designs because they enable us to buffer data when doing signal and image processing. We also...
Adam Taylor
- Mar 9, 2022
- 2 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Spartan 6 Q & A
A couple of week ago, I held several webinars on how to convert Spartan-6 designs into 7 series devices. There were several interesting...
Adam Taylor
- Mar 2, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Partial Configuration Introduction
Getting the most efficient utilization of our FPGA does not mean that we need to have the logic resources dedicated to all use cases. We...
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