MicroZed Chronicles: Introducing AMD Spartan™ UltraScale+™ FPGAs
One of the great things about programmable logic is its versatility. It is at the heart of a range of systems from handheld embedded...
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Adam Taylor
Jul 26, 20233 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Avnet ZUBoard 1CG and Dual Camera High-Speed IO Module
As we have discussed several times in this blog, programmable logic is ideal for the development of image processing systems due to its...
Adam Taylor
Jul 19, 20233 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Versal Clocking Resources
Over the last few weeks, we have looked at some interesting aspects of the 7 series and UltraScale / UltraScale+ clocking buffers. To...
Adam Taylor
Jul 12, 20234 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: UltraScale and UltraScale+ Clock Division
Last week we looked at how we could use 7 series clocking resources to provide integer clock division without using MMCM. In this week’s...
Adam Taylor
Jul 5, 20233 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Clock Structures and Clock Division
Many of our FPGA designs are multi-clock, meaning several clocks within the design, which can introduce clock domain crossing challenges....
Adam Taylor
Jun 28, 20235 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Setting Up Your Own Consultancy Business.
One common question on forums, twitter and r/FPGA is how to go about setting up on your own as a freelancer or consultant. Often the...
Adam Taylor
Jun 21, 20235 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: 10 Years and 500 Posts
In September 2013, I was about to start a new role, as head of electronics at a space imaging developer when what should arrive in the...
Adam Taylor
Jun 14, 20233 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Power Design Manager
Designing a successful system requires not only the implementation of the algorithms within the programmable logic and processing systems...
Adam Taylor
Jun 7, 20234 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Ethernet on the Digilent Arty A7
A couple of weeks ago I was emailed about how to get the ethernet working on the Digilent Arty A7 development board. We have covered this...
Adam Taylor
May 31, 20233 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Sneak Peek Analog Discovery 3
Over the years working as both a FPGA developer and author of this blog, I have found it very useful to have a range of test equipment....
Adam Taylor
May 24, 20234 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: FPGA Development Life Cycle
In this blog, we often talk about detailed design features or aspects of FPGA or heterogeneous SoC design. This allows us to learn about...
Adam Taylor
May 17, 20233 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Dynamic Clocking
Clocking is at the heart of every FPGA design.. We can spend a lot less time battling the tools if we get the clock architecture right,...
Adam Taylor
May 9, 20237 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Working with ADCs and DACs
Recently I’ve shared several projects on Hackster which are based around digital filters, math and signal processing. One common element...
Adam Taylor
May 3, 20233 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Digilent Eclypse Z7 Board
There is a wide range of development boards on the market today. Some are ideal for beginners who are just learning programmable logic or...
Adam Taylor
Apr 26, 20233 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Vivado Simulator Code and Functional Coverage
While writing the HDL is often the easy element of FPGA development, the most challenging and time-consuming element can be verification....
Adam Taylor
Apr 19, 20233 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: A look at the DSP58
We looked at fixed point math a few weeks ago and we’ve also previously looked at how we can use DSP48 in both 7 series and UltraScale+...
Adam Taylor
Apr 12, 20233 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: ZUBoard 1CG and PYNQ
You might have noticed several posts on the Avnet ZUBoard 1CG over the last six months. This board contains an AMD Xilinx ZU1CG MPSoC...
Adam Taylor
Apr 5, 20234 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Glitch Filtering
Our programmable logic designs are often deployed in applications which can be electrically noisy. This noise can affect the signals that...
Adam Taylor
Mar 29, 20234 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Getting Started Part Three
Lately we have been discussing helpful tips and tricks, the best development boards and even the best books to reference if you’re...
Adam Taylor
Mar 22, 20233 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Open Source VHDL Verification Methodology (OSVVM)
Over the years, we have looked at many different verification frameworks like cocotb and varying approaches when working with AMD AXI...
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