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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...
Jan 4, 20236 min read


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...
Dec 21, 20225 min read


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...
Dec 14, 20228 min read


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...
Dec 7, 20226 min read


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...
Nov 30, 20223 min read


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...
Nov 23, 20223 min read


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...
Nov 16, 20223 min read


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...
Nov 9, 20223 min read


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...
Oct 19, 20223 min read


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...
Oct 12, 20223 min read


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...
Oct 5, 20223 min read


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...
Sep 28, 20222 min read


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...
Sep 14, 20223 min read


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...
Aug 31, 20223 min read


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....
Aug 10, 20224 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: The Avnet ZUBoard 1CG
In early June Avnet announced the ZUBoard 1CG, as a compliment to the Ultra96V2 and MiniZed development boards and UltraZed and PicoZed...
Aug 3, 20223 min read


MicroZed Chronicles: PYNQ and AXI IIC
One of the most widely used embedded protocols for low-speed communication between embedded devices is the I2C. We have a choice about...
Jul 13, 20223 min read


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...
Jun 29, 20223 min read


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....
Jun 23, 20222 min read


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...
Jun 8, 20223 min read
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