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MicroZed Chronicles: Industrial Input Output & Petalinux

Oct 6, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Industrial Input Output & Petalinux

One of the many advantages to using an embedded Linux solution is the lower-level drivers are often part of the kernel. This saves us...

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Adam Taylor

Sep 29, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Bluespec RISC-V

There are several FPGA use cases where a softcore processor is beneficial to the overall solution. These can include anything from...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Certified Ubuntu on Xilinx SoCs

Adam Taylor

Sep 22, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Certified Ubuntu on Xilinx SoCs

Having an embedded Linux operating system is critical for Xilinx heterogeneous SoCs to be able to achieve their full potential. The...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Kria & Raspberry Pi Camera

Adam Taylor

Sep 15, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Kria & Raspberry Pi Camera

On my explorations with the Kria board so far, all the imaging has been using a web camera over USB. Of course, we also can capture...

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MicroZed Chronicles: PYNQ Composable Overlays

Adam Taylor

Sep 8, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: PYNQ Composable Overlays

I have talked about my love of PYNQ for rapid prototyping of applications both commercially and for fun projects on several occasions in...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Real Digital Blackboard

Adam Taylor

Sep 1, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Real Digital Blackboard

We have looked at many development boards that are based on Xilinx FPGAs and SoCs during the eight years this blog has been running....

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MicroZed Chronicles: Working with the Kria SOM in Vivado

Adam Taylor

Aug 25, 20214 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Working with the Kria SOM in Vivado

The Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit is great for embedded vision applications and AI acceleration. Several of my clients, however, have...

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MicroZed Chronicles: PetaLinux Distro Boot

Adam Taylor

Aug 18, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: PetaLinux Distro Boot

With the release of the 2020.x tool chains, PetaLinux was updated to support Distro Boot. If you are not familiar with Distro Boot, its...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Kria SOM and Vitis AI 1.4

Adam Taylor

Aug 10, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Kria SOM and Vitis AI 1.4

A few weeks ago, Xilinx released Vitis AI 1.4. This was around the same time I was working on a project with the Kria SOM for a client on...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Example Designs in Vivado and Vitis

Adam Taylor

Aug 4, 20212 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Example Designs in Vivado and Vitis

Over the years, several blogs and projects have leveraged the Vivado and Vitis ability to generate example projects. One of the most...

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MicroZed Chronicles: A Look at the UltraZed EV/EG Board

Adam Taylor

Jul 27, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: A Look at the UltraZed EV/EG Board

The first-ever MPSoC I received to work and create blogs with was an engineering sample of the UltraZed-EG in red. It worked well, but...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Proportional Integral Derivative Controller using HLS

Adam Taylor

Jul 21, 20215 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Proportional Integral Derivative Controller using HLS

If I’m being honest, my university classes on control engineering were not my favorite. However, working as an engineer – and especially...

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Adam Taylor

Jul 7, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: The 400th Edition

Back on the 29th September 2013, I sat down and wrote what would become the first blog in this series. It was a simple look at how to...

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Adam Taylor

Jun 30, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Clock Switching

Last week we examined several techniques for generating non-integer clock divisions in our FPGA if no PLL was available or we couldn’t...

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MicroZed Chronicles: A Blast from the Past!

Adam Taylor

Jun 23, 20214 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: A Blast from the Past!

Modern FPGA devices really spoil us. They include PLLs, DCM, DSP etc. and a range of interfaces that significantly ease our developments....

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MicroZed Chronicles: Designing in DDR to your FPGA

Adam Taylor

Jun 16, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Designing in DDR to your FPGA

Over the last two months, I have had several clients approach me for help regarding DDR3 / DDR3L interfaces that they have connected to...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Estimating FPGA Development Times

Adam Taylor

Jun 10, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Estimating FPGA Development Times

As a consultant, correctly estimating the time it will take to develop an FPGA or module can mean the difference between making a profit...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Multi-Gigabit Transceivers

Adam Taylor

Jun 1, 20215 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Multi-Gigabit Transceivers

One aspect of FPGA design that we haven’t really examined is multi-gigabit transceivers (MGT). These transceivers are available in many...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Kria SoM and Applications

Adam Taylor

May 26, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Kria SoM and Applications

One of the big advantages of the Kria SoM is the ease with which new applications can be created, either around the existing applications...

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Adam Taylor

May 19, 20212 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: RFSoC Studio

One of the most common requests I get via my consultancy is about the RFSoC and how its capabilities can be leveraged. If you haven’t...

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