Adam Taylor

FPGA Horizons London- October 6th and 7th 2026 - get Tickets here. The $99 Artix UltraScale+ Explorer Board - learn more here FPGAs are widely used in image-processing applications across automotive, robotics, industrial, defence, and scientific systems. Their ability to process large amounts of data in parallel makes them particularly well suited to real-time image-processing pipelines. However, image sensors are not perfect. They can contain dead or unresponsive pixels, pixels that are...

FPGA Horizons London- October 6th and 7th 2026 - get Tickets here. The $99 Artix UltraScale+ Explorer Board - learn more here This week I have been helping a couple of clients with FPGA projects that were not going quite as hoped. While I am not going to explain the exact issues they faced, it did remind me of a few different elements of FPGA design and their importance. Lesson 1: Do not leave FPGA inputs floating The first project was a custom-designed board that was not functioning as...

FPGA Horizons London- October 6th and 7th 2026 - get Tickets here. The $99 Artix UltraScale+ Explorer Board - learn more here I think, for the good of my bank account and my accountant’s sanity, I am going to have to block Crowd Supply on my company network. Last week, another item I had ordered, and might have forgotten about arrived, the xSDR. The xSDR is based around an Artix-7 FPGA coupled with a Lime Microsystems RFIC and is implemented in a compact M.2 format. For ease of use, I...