MicroZed Chronicles: Video Frame Read Buffer
Last week we examined the Video Frame Buffer Write (VFBW), which is capable of writing image frames to an external memory. This week, we...
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Adam Taylor
Oct 18, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Video Frame Buffer Write
When I’ve previously created image processing blogs or applications, I have tended to use the Video Direct Memory Access (VDMA) module to...
Adam Taylor
Oct 12, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: 7 Series to 2035 and beyond!
A few days ago, I noticed that AMD Xilinx had published a blog stating that 7 series devices would be available beyond 2035. I must admit...
Adam Taylor
Oct 5, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Cocotb, AXI Streams and AXI-Lite Slaves
On my journey exploring how Cocotb works on a range of interfaces, this week I am going to look at how we can work with AXI Lite and...
Adam Taylor
Sep 28, 20222 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: MATLAB, Model Composer, and the Avnet ZUBoard
Over the last few weeks, I have been creating a course centered around the Avnet ZUBoard which will be like the MiniZed and Ultra96-V2...
Adam Taylor
Sep 21, 20224 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Cocotb and AXI
A few weeks ago, we looked at the python-based cocotb framework. In that blog, we looked at a simple memory scrubber created around a XPM...
Adam Taylor
Sep 14, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Avnet ZUBoard – Temperature Sensor
Ever since the previous overview, I’ve had the Avnet ZUBoard 1CG sitting on my desk. I also just purchased a FLIR C5 thermal imaging...
Adam Taylor
Sep 7, 20225 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Getting Started with Cocotb
Verification of both the modules and top-level testing is often more complex and time consuming than creating the HDL. Previously, we’ve...
Adam Taylor
Aug 31, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Memory Scrubbing
One of the great things about the BRAM in Xilinx FPGAs is its ability to implement error correcting codes (ECC) on the data stored...
Adam Taylor
Aug 23, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: 10 Rules for HDL Development.
Writing good, portable, reusable HDL code, that enables the synthesized design to implement at the desired frequency can definitely be a...
Adam Taylor
Aug 16, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Thinking about Clocks.
When I started my design career twenty plus years ago, one of the very simple rules we had for significantly smaller and less flexible...
Adam Taylor
Aug 10, 20224 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: MATLAB / Simulink HDL Coder
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned I had invested in MATLAB and HDL Coder to enable generation of RTL code directly from Simulink models....
Adam Taylor
Aug 3, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: The Avnet ZUBoard 1CG
In early June Avnet announced the ZUBoard 1CG, as a compliment to the Ultra96V2 and MiniZed development boards and UltraZed and PicoZed...
Adam Taylor
Jul 27, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: UltraScale IO Resources
I have recently come across an interesting requirement from a customer that includes driving high-energy systems with a series of pulses...
Adam Taylor
Jul 20, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: PYNQ Interrupts
Last week, after we looked at how we could use the AXI IIC IP with PYNQ, I got a question from a reader asking how we work with...
Adam Taylor
Jul 13, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: PYNQ and AXI IIC
One of the most widely used embedded protocols for low-speed communication between embedded devices is the I2C. We have a choice about...
Adam Taylor
Jul 6, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: MicroBlaze MCS
Implementing a MicroBlaze processor in a FPGA design is very popular in many applications. The MicroBlaze allows us to handle serial...
Adam Taylor
Jun 29, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Processor System to Programmable Logic Interrupts
One of the critical techniques in an embedded system that enables responsive software is using interrupts. In this series, we have used...
Adam Taylor
Jun 23, 20222 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Higher Levels of Abstraction
I am very interested in higher levels of abstraction for developing FPGAs and especially algorithms like image processing and control....
Adam Taylor
Jun 15, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Signal Processing, FFT, and PYNQ
One of the great things about FPGAs is their parallel structures and how we can accelerate the algorithms by exploiting the parallel...
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