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MicroZed Chronicles: Chat GPT and AI coding.

Dec 14, 20228 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Chat GPT and AI coding.

A few months ago, we looked at GitHub Copilot. The tool uses AI to assist with the coding process and it felt a little like pair...

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MicroZed Chronicles: UltraScale+ IO, ODELAY3E and Cascading

Adam Taylor

Dec 7, 20226 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: UltraScale+ IO, ODELAY3E and Cascading

We looked recently at the UltraScale+ IO resources which provide a range of capabilities that can be very effective in addressing both...

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MicroZed Chronicles: ZU1CG Board and Click Interface

Adam Taylor

Nov 30, 20223 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: ZU1CG Board and Click Interface

One of the great features about the new Avnet ZU1CG board is the interfacing it provides. It gives us three SYZYGY interfaces along with...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Free Webinars, Workshops, Tutorials and App Notes

Adam Taylor

Nov 23, 20223 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Free Webinars, Workshops, Tutorials and App Notes

One of my passions is sharing information about how we can develop better, more effective FPGA designs. This passion is the driving force...

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Adam Taylor

Nov 16, 20223 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Stream FIFO

A few months ago, we looked at the AXI Stream FIFO. The AXI Steaming FIFO allows developers to be able to access AXI Streams from AXI...

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MicroZed Chronicles: New Artix and Zynq UltraScale+ Family Members

Adam Taylor

Nov 9, 20223 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: New Artix and Zynq UltraScale+ Family Members

It is always exciting when new devices are introduced, and this week, AMD Xilinx announced two new devices into the already popular Artix...

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MicroZed Chronicles: 7 Series DDR3 Debugging

Adam Taylor

Nov 2, 20222 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: 7 Series DDR3 Debugging

It’s common for many custom FPGA board developments to contain a DDR3 memory. Of course, when we develop a custom board, we need to...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Video Frame Read Buffer

Adam Taylor

Oct 26, 20222 min read

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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MicroZed Chronicles: Video Frame Buffer Write

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...

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MicroZed Chronicles: 7 Series to 2035 and beyond!

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...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Cocotb, AXI Streams and AXI-Lite Slaves

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...

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MicroZed Chronicles: MATLAB, Model Composer, and the Avnet ZUBoard

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...

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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...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Avnet ZUBoard – Temperature Sensor

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...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Getting Started with Cocotb

Adam Taylor

Sep 6, 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...

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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...

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MicroZed Chronicles: 10 Rules for HDL Development.

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...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Thinking about Clocks.

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...

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MicroZed Chronicles: MATLAB / Simulink HDL Coder

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....

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MicroZed Chronicles: The Avnet ZUBoard 1CG

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...

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