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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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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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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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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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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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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