Adam Taylor

FPGA Horizons London- October 6th and 7th 2026 - get Tickets here. The $99 Artix UltraScale+ Explorer Board - learn more here In my last blog, I introduced a debug laboratory: a Spartan-7 design that can be deliberately broken. It allows us to select one of six realistic faults at run time and then find them using ILA cores inserted into the design. In this blog, we are going to look not only at running the experiments on hardware, but also at identifying the key characteristics we should...

FPGA Horizons London- October 6th and 7th 2026 - get Tickets here. The $99 Artix UltraScale+ Explorer Board - learn more here Over the years of writing this blog, most of the designs we have created have one thing in common: they work - well, after a while. Of course, getting them working often involves debugging on the hardware, just as many real-world projects do. By the time the blog is published, however, the issues have been found and fixed. It is good that they work, as this allows...

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...