MicroZed Chronicles: Introducing the Kria K24 SOM and the KD240 Drives Starter Kit
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...
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Adam Taylor
- Aug 29
- 5 min
MicroZed Chronicles: UIO Part Two - Creating Software Applications
Over the last few weeks, we have been looking at how we can effectively work with PetaLinux using the ZUBoard as the reference platform....
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 2
- 4 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Introducing AMD Spartan™ UltraScale+™ FPGAs
One of the great things about programmable logic is its versatility. It is at the heart of a range of systems from handheld embedded...
Adam Taylor
- Jul 26
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Avnet ZUBoard 1CG and Dual Camera High-Speed IO Module
As we have discussed several times in this blog, programmable logic is ideal for the development of image processing systems due to its...
Adam Taylor
- Jul 19
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Versal Clocking Resources
Over the last few weeks, we have looked at some interesting aspects of the 7 series and UltraScale / UltraScale+ clocking buffers. To...
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
- Apr 26
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Vivado Simulator Code and Functional Coverage
While writing the HDL is often the easy element of FPGA development, the most challenging and time-consuming element can be verification....
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 12
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: ZUBoard 1CG and PYNQ
You might have noticed several posts on the Avnet ZUBoard 1CG over the last six months. This board contains an AMD Xilinx ZU1CG MPSoC...
Adam Taylor
- Mar 15
- 3 min
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...
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...
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