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MicroZed Chronicles: UltraScale IO Resources

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...

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Adam Taylor

Jul 19, 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...

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Adam Taylor

Jul 12, 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...

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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...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Processor System to Programmable Logic Interrupts

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...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Higher Levels of Abstraction

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....

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MicroZed Chronicles: Signal Processing, FFT, and PYNQ

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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MicroZed Chronicles: Synchronization & Metastability

Adam Taylor

Jun 8, 20223 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Synchronization & Metastability

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

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MicroZed Chronicles: Zynq Power Management – Wake on Interrupt GPIO

Adam Taylor

Jun 1, 20226 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Zynq Power Management – Wake on Interrupt GPIO

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...

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MicroZed Chronicles: A Look at the AC701 Evaluation Kit

Adam Taylor

May 25, 20223 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: A Look at the AC701 Evaluation Kit

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...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Kria Robotics Starter Kit

Adam Taylor

May 17, 20223 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Kria Robotics Starter Kit

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...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Spartan-6 Migration Summary

Adam Taylor

May 11, 20222 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Spartan-6 Migration Summary

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...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Using a DSP48E2 as a Multiplexer

Adam Taylor

May 3, 20226 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Using a DSP48E2 as a Multiplexer

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....

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Adam Taylor

Apr 26, 20223 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: PYNQ-ZU Board

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...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Numato Mimas and Narvi Boards

Adam Taylor

Apr 20, 20223 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Numato Mimas and Narvi Boards

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

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MicroZed Chronicles: AXI Stream FIFO IP Core

Adam Taylor

Apr 13, 20223 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: AXI Stream FIFO IP Core

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...

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MicroZed Chronicles: JTAG using a Raspberry Pi Pico

Adam Taylor

Apr 5, 20223 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: JTAG using a Raspberry Pi Pico

I’m a big fan of the Raspberry Pi Pico with the RP2040 microcontroller and have used it several times to emulate system interfaces on my...

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MicroZed Chronicles: AXI Virtual FIFO Controller

Adam Taylor

Mar 30, 20223 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: AXI Virtual FIFO Controller

FIFOs are versatile tools to use within our designs because they enable us to buffer data when doing signal and image processing. We also...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Xilinx Power Management Libraries (XilPM)

Adam Taylor

Mar 23, 20224 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Xilinx Power Management Libraries (XilPM)

Both the AMD-Xilinx MPSoC and Versal ACAP families have complex internal power structures which consists of domains like the Full Power...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Partial Reconfiguration and Block Diagrams

Adam Taylor

Mar 16, 20222 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Partial Reconfiguration and Block Diagrams

We introduced partial reconfiguration using very simple RTL a couple of weeks ago. In this blog, we are going to look at how to create a...

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