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MicroZed Chronicles: Porting SpaceWire from Spartan-6 to Spartan-7

Dec 8, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Porting SpaceWire from Spartan-6 to Spartan-7

Space electronics is one of the main areas my consultancy is very active. SpaceWire is a differential high-speed communications protocol...

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MicroZed Chronicles: MiniZed, Accelerometer, I2C and i2C Tools

Adam Taylor

Dec 1, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: MiniZed, Accelerometer, I2C and i2C Tools

Embedded systems use a lot of diverse sensors from accelerometers and gyroscopes to magnetometers, vibration, temperature and humidity....

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MicroZed Chronicles: Selecting the Correct Device when Migrating from Spartan-6

Adam Taylor

Nov 24, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Selecting the Correct Device when Migrating from Spartan-6

A few weeks ago, I wrote about migration from Spartan-6 devices to 7 Series devices. This originated from several client questions and...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Kria Robotics Stack

Adam Taylor

Nov 17, 20212 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Kria Robotics Stack

The Kria K26 SOM and the Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit have received interest for developing image processing and AI applications....

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MicroZed Chronicles: Migrating Spartan-6 to 7 Series FPGAs and Beyond

Adam Taylor

Nov 10, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Migrating Spartan-6 to 7 Series FPGAs and Beyond

Over the last few weeks, I have had several emails and messages about mitigating the impact of the component shortage by transitioning...

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Adam Taylor

Nov 3, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: GitHub Copilot

Programable logic is, of course, great for the implementation and acceleration of machine learning and artificial intelligence...

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MicroZed Chronicles: XADC, IIO and PetaLinux

Adam Taylor

Oct 27, 20212 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: XADC, IIO and PetaLinux

Recently we examined Industrial Input and Output drivers in PetaLinux when using an ADC on a Pmod. Of course, all Xilinx devices also...

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Adam Taylor

Oct 19, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: TMR SEM IP

As a practicing engineer, I spend a lot of time developing space or other high-reliability applications. I mention this because we need...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Porting Bluespec RISC-V to Another Board

Adam Taylor

Oct 13, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Porting Bluespec RISC-V to Another Board

A few weeks ago, we looked at the new Bluespec RISC-V core which is deployed on an Arty A7-100T. I was curious to see how easy it would...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Industrial Input Output & Petalinux

Adam Taylor

Oct 6, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Industrial Input Output & Petalinux

One of the many advantages to using an embedded Linux solution is the lower-level drivers are often part of the kernel. This saves us...

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Adam Taylor

Sep 29, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Bluespec RISC-V

There are several FPGA use cases where a softcore processor is beneficial to the overall solution. These can include anything from...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Certified Ubuntu on Xilinx SoCs

Adam Taylor

Sep 22, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Certified Ubuntu on Xilinx SoCs

Having an embedded Linux operating system is critical for Xilinx heterogeneous SoCs to be able to achieve their full potential. The...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Kria & Raspberry Pi Camera

Adam Taylor

Sep 15, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Kria & Raspberry Pi Camera

On my explorations with the Kria board so far, all the imaging has been using a web camera over USB. Of course, we also can capture...

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MicroZed Chronicles: PYNQ Composable Overlays

Adam Taylor

Sep 8, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: PYNQ Composable Overlays

I have talked about my love of PYNQ for rapid prototyping of applications both commercially and for fun projects on several occasions in...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Real Digital Blackboard

Adam Taylor

Sep 1, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Real Digital Blackboard

We have looked at many development boards that are based on Xilinx FPGAs and SoCs during the eight years this blog has been running....

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MicroZed Chronicles: Working with the Kria SOM in Vivado

Adam Taylor

Aug 25, 20214 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Working with the Kria SOM in Vivado

The Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit is great for embedded vision applications and AI acceleration. Several of my clients, however, have...

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MicroZed Chronicles: PetaLinux Distro Boot

Adam Taylor

Aug 18, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: PetaLinux Distro Boot

With the release of the 2020.x tool chains, PetaLinux was updated to support Distro Boot. If you are not familiar with Distro Boot, its...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Kria SOM and Vitis AI 1.4

Adam Taylor

Aug 10, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Kria SOM and Vitis AI 1.4

A few weeks ago, Xilinx released Vitis AI 1.4. This was around the same time I was working on a project with the Kria SOM for a client on...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Example Designs in Vivado and Vitis

Adam Taylor

Aug 4, 20212 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Example Designs in Vivado and Vitis

Over the years, several blogs and projects have leveraged the Vivado and Vitis ability to generate example projects. One of the most...

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MicroZed Chronicles: A Look at the UltraZed EV/EG Board

Adam Taylor

Jul 27, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: A Look at the UltraZed EV/EG Board

The first-ever MPSoC I received to work and create blogs with was an engineering sample of the UltraZed-EG in red. It worked well, but...

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