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MicroZed Chronicles: Simulink and DSP58

A couple of weeks ago I started exploring, fixed and floating point math and the differences between them in FPGA implementations. Of...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Can AI Build an LED Flasher from Scratch?

Adam Taylor

Dec 97 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Can AI Build an LED Flasher from Scratch?

As many engineers are, I am a big fan of sci fi, growing up I used to watch Star Trek The Next Generation religiously every night here in...

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Adam Taylor

Dec 45 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Lab Equipment

I have written several blogs about setting up and running your own company ( P2 here ) , the software tools and IT infrastructure ...

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Adam Taylor

Nov 264 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: ChipScoPy

When it comes to debugging designs the more visibility and control we have over debugging elements such as ILAs is critical. When we...

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MicroZed Chronicles: DSP58 and FP32 Mode

Adam Taylor

Nov 204 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: DSP58 and FP32 Mode

Last week we examined how we could use the IEEE VHDL 2008 fixed and floating packages to implement a simple polynomial approximation. ...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Fixed and Floating Point Maths

Adam Taylor

Nov 135 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Fixed and Floating Point Maths

A short time ago I hosted a webinar which looked at how we can implement mathematics within programmable logic. In this webinar we...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Organising Test Benches.

Adam Taylor

Nov 68 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Organising Test Benches.

When developing FPGAs there is a critical triad which needs to be achieved for the successful delivery of a project. First we need to...

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Adam Taylor

Oct 304 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Synchronous CDC

Every digital / FPGA designer should be aware of clock domain crossing between asynchronous clock domains. As our devices get more and...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Baseline Timing Closure.

Adam Taylor

Oct 224 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Baseline Timing Closure.

One of the main challenges FPGA designers face, especially those new to FPGA design is how to achieve timing closure. While it seems...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Accelerating FPGA Design Cycles with IP Cores and Open Libraries

Adam Taylor

Oct 163 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Accelerating FPGA Design Cycles with IP Cores and Open Libraries

The goal of professional FPGA development is to deliver projects on quality, on time, and within budget. Achieving this, however, can be...

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MicroZed Chronicles: From Bits to Plots: Visualizing XADC Data with Python

Adam Taylor

Oct 94 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: From Bits to Plots: Visualizing XADC Data with Python

One of the things I enjoy is when people reach out with suggestions for blogs and projects that would help them. A recent suggestion was...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Python Scripting Solutions with Vitis

Adam Taylor

Oct 14 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Python Scripting Solutions with Vitis

To make my blogs and demonstrations illustrative I often use captures from the graphical user interface. However, professionally as an...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Spartan 7 Tile and System Controller.

Adam Taylor

Sep 245 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Spartan 7 Tile and System Controller.

Over the last few months we have been developing a tile, which contains a Spartan 7 XC7S25 and all of the supporting peripherals...

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Adam Taylor

Sep 185 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Interviews

Recently, I've seen a lot of questions about how to prepare for interviews, especially for those looking to land their first FPGA job or...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Petalinux and the AXI Lite UART

Adam Taylor

Sep 103 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Petalinux and the AXI Lite UART

The peripherals we communicate with in embedded systems use a wide range of interfaces from I2C, UART, SPI to Gigabit ethernet and PCIe....

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MicroZed Chronicles: Turning Concepts into Reality, The FPGA Screen Challenge

Adam Taylor

Sep 44 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Turning Concepts into Reality, The FPGA Screen Challenge

A few weeks ago, I outlined several beginner-friendly FPGA projects to help you get started with your chosen development language....

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MicroZed Chronicles: Perfecting Pipelining

Adam Taylor

Aug 283 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Perfecting Pipelining

One of the main methods of increasing timing performance in our FPGA designs is to implement pipelining. At its heart, pipelining allows...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Beyond Basics—Intermediate FPGA Projects

Adam Taylor

Aug 204 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Beyond Basics—Intermediate FPGA Projects

I am often asked in emails and social media such as LinkedIn / (X) Twitter, what projects people learning FPGA should look at that are...

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MicroZed Chronicles: RISC-V based Image Processing

Adam Taylor

Aug 135 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: RISC-V based Image Processing

FPGA are excellent for image processing, their parallel nature easily allows us to implement parallel processing stages. Over the years...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Sysmon and I2C access

Adam Taylor

Aug 64 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Sysmon and I2C access

XADC as part of a temperature reporting system which allowed me to demonstrate the power of using a model based approach. One of the...

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