MicroZed Chronicles: Useful Books when Developing with FPGAs
In addition to questions about the best beginner development boards, I am often asked which books I recommend for FPGA developers just...
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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 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...
Adam Taylor
- Jan 18
- 3 min
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...
Adam Taylor
- Jan 4
- 6 min
MicroZed Chronicles: System Integration and Debugging
As we know, FPGA design and FPGA verification are complex businesses. Then, of course, comes integration, at which time the actual...
Adam Taylor
- Dec 21, 2022
- 5 min
MicroZed Chronicles: GTH Clocking
Last week we looked at configuring and deploying multi-gigabit GTH transceivers using the GTH wizard. One of the key things when using...
Adam Taylor
- Dec 14, 2022
- 8 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Chat GPT and AI coding.
A few months ago, we looked at GitHub Copilot. The tool uses AI to assist with the coding process and it felt a little like pair...
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 30, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: ZU1CG Board and Click Interface
One of the great features about the new Avnet ZU1CG board is the interfacing it provides. It gives us three SYZYGY interfaces along with...
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
- Nov 9, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: New Artix and Zynq UltraScale+ Family Members
It is always exciting when new devices are introduced, and this week, AMD Xilinx announced two new devices into the already popular Artix...
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
- Oct 12, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: 7 Series to 2035 and beyond!
A few days ago, I noticed that AMD Xilinx had published a blog stating that 7 series devices would be available beyond 2035. I must admit...
Adam Taylor
- Oct 5, 2022
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Cocotb, AXI Streams and AXI-Lite Slaves
On my journey exploring how Cocotb works on a range of interfaces, this week I am going to look at how we can work with AXI Lite and...
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
- Sep 14, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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 10, 2022
- 4 min
MicroZed Chronicles: MATLAB / Simulink HDL Coder
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned I had invested in MATLAB and HDL Coder to enable generation of RTL code directly from Simulink models....
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