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MicroZed Chronicles: Digilent Eclypse Z7 Board

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...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Vivado Simulator Code and Functional Coverage

Adam Taylor

Apr 25, 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....

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MicroZed Chronicles: A look at the DSP58

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+...

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MicroZed Chronicles: ZUBoard 1CG and PYNQ

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...

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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...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Getting Started Part Three

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...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Open Source VHDL Verification Methodology (OSVVM)

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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MicroZed Chronicles: Useful Books when Developing with FPGAs

Adam Taylor

Mar 15, 20233 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Useful Books when Developing with FPGAs

In addition to questions about the best beginner development boards, I am often asked which books I recommend for FPGA developers just...

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Adam Taylor

Mar 8, 20234 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Fixed-Point Math

One of the first articles I ever wrote was about how FPGAs perform fixed-point math. Understanding this is important because FPGA-based...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Which Dev Board to Start With?

Adam Taylor

Mar 1, 20234 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Which Dev Board to Start With?

One of the questions I get asked a lot is which development board is the best for (beginner) FPGA and SOC development. Understandably,...

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MicroZed Chronicles: SW Development with Vitis and Visual Studio Code

Adam Taylor

Feb 22, 20234 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: SW Development with Vitis and Visual Studio Code

A lot of my FPGA development takes place within Visual Studio Code where I use it with TerosHDL to create HDL and cocotb for...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Hotstate and Programmable State Machines

Adam Taylor

Feb 17, 20232 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Hotstate and Programmable State Machines

We often use finite state machines (FSM) when we want to implement control structures in our programmable logic structures. As complexity...

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Adam Taylor

Feb 8, 20235 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Working with Reset

When we are verifying a design or bringing it up on a board, it’s not uncommon for either reset or clocking issues to cause it to not...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Designing & Debugging DDR4

Adam Taylor

Feb 1, 20233 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Designing & Debugging DDR4

A few weeks ago, we looked at what to do if you experience issues with DDR3 when bringing up a new board. In this blog, we are going to...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Integration and Debugging System

Adam Taylor

Jan 25, 20233 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Integration and Debugging System

Over the last few weeks, we have been working to create a simple system which allows debugging from a UART into an AXI Lite network. This...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Which Cost Optimized Device?

Adam Taylor

Jan 18, 20233 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Which Cost Optimized Device?

For many applications, selecting the most appropriate device is critical. Many of our clients are often questioning which device they...

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MicroZed Chronicles: From UART to AXI Lite Debug Access

Adam Taylor

Jan 11, 20238 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: From UART to AXI Lite Debug Access

Last week we examined how we could create a UART with AXI Stream interfaces to enable access to AXI buses in device for debugging. In...

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MicroZed Chronicles: System Integration and Debugging

Adam Taylor

Jan 4, 20236 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: System Integration and Debugging

As we know, FPGA design and FPGA verification are complex businesses. Then, of course, comes integration, at which time the actual...

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Adam Taylor

Dec 21, 20225 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: GTH Clocking

Last week we looked at configuring and deploying multi-gigabit GTH transceivers using the GTH wizard. One of the key things when using...

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Richard Harriss

Dec 15, 20229 min read

High-speed transceivers in Xilinx FPGAs

Introduction It is a common problem in FPGA design to have to send high-bandwidth data (such as video) between two different FPGAs. ...

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