Writing good, portable, reusable HDL code, that enables the synthesized design to implement at the desired frequency can definitely be a...

When I started my design career twenty plus years ago, one of the very simple rules we had for significantly smaller and less flexible...

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....

In early June Avnet announced the ZUBoard 1CG, as a compliment to the Ultra96V2 and MiniZed development boards and UltraZed and PicoZed...

I have recently come across an interesting requirement from a customer that includes driving high-energy systems with a series of pulses...

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...

One of the most widely used embedded protocols for low-speed communication between embedded devices is the I2C. We have a choice about...

Implementing a MicroBlaze processor in a FPGA design is very popular in many applications. The MicroBlaze allows us to handle serial...

One of the critical techniques in an embedded system that enables responsive software is using interrupts. In this series, we have used...

I am very interested in higher levels of abstraction for developing FPGAs and especially algorithms like image processing and control....

One of the great things about FPGAs is their parallel structures and how we can accelerate the algorithms by exploiting the parallel...

Over the last week I noticed a few questions on r/FPGA and from a client on metastability and synchronizing signals coming into the...

One of the projects we are working on now is battery powered and only acts when awakened on a set schedule. This requires the Zynq-7000...

Artix-7 FPGAs are very interesting because they are the first devices with gigabit serial lines (GTP) that can run at 6.6 Gbps. This...

Over the last few months, we have examined robotics on Kria with the Kria robotics stack (KRS) which enables ROS 2 to be deployed on...

Over the last few months, we have explored how to migrate from Spartan-6 FPGAs to 7 series and beyond in order to help developers with...

I am a regular reader of many FPGA notice boards. A few days ago, I saw a question about how the DSP48E2 could be used as a multiplexer....

As I have said several times in this blog, I am a massive fan of the PYNQ framework. We use PYNQ and HLS to accelerate our development...

A couple of weeks ago I received the Mimas and Narvi development boards from Numato Labs, both containing Xilinx 7 series devices. The...

We looked at the AXI Virtual FIFO Controller in a blog a couple weeks ago and created an example design running on the Arty S7-50 while...