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MicroZed Chronicles: Proportional Integral Derivative Controller using HLS

Jul 21, 20215 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Proportional Integral Derivative Controller using HLS

If I’m being honest, my university classes on control engineering were not my favorite. However, working as an engineer – and especially...

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MicroZed Chronicles: MicroBlaze Internal / External Memory and Cache

Adam Taylor

Jul 14, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: MicroBlaze Internal / External Memory and Cache

It’s interesting how often I seem to go through similar development projects with different clients. Within a short period of time...

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Adam Taylor

Jul 7, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: The 400th Edition

Back on the 29th September 2013, I sat down and wrote what would become the first blog in this series. It was a simple look at how to...

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Adam Taylor

Jul 6, 20214 min read

Agricultural Robotics and ML

One Research and Development project, I have been working on over the last eight months with a long-time friend is an agricultural robot...

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Adam Taylor

Jun 30, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Clock Switching

Last week we examined several techniques for generating non-integer clock divisions in our FPGA if no PLL was available or we couldn’t...

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MicroZed Chronicles: A Blast from the Past!

Adam Taylor

Jun 23, 20214 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: A Blast from the Past!

Modern FPGA devices really spoil us. They include PLLs, DCM, DSP etc. and a range of interfaces that significantly ease our developments....

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MicroZed Chronicles: Designing in DDR to your FPGA

Adam Taylor

Jun 16, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Designing in DDR to your FPGA

Over the last two months, I have had several clients approach me for help regarding DDR3 / DDR3L interfaces that they have connected to...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Estimating FPGA Development Times

Adam Taylor

Jun 10, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Estimating FPGA Development Times

As a consultant, correctly estimating the time it will take to develop an FPGA or module can mean the difference between making a profit...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Multi-Gigabit Transceivers

Adam Taylor

Jun 1, 20215 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Multi-Gigabit Transceivers

One aspect of FPGA design that we haven’t really examined is multi-gigabit transceivers (MGT). These transceivers are available in many...

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Machine Learning for Industrial Vision – In 30 minutes.

Adam Taylor

May 28, 20213 min read

Machine Learning for Industrial Vision – In 30 minutes.

Recently I had an hour between meetings and noticed the Himax WE-I development board sat on top of my docking station. I had put it there...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Kria SoM and Applications

Adam Taylor

May 26, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Kria SoM and Applications

One of the big advantages of the Kria SoM is the ease with which new applications can be created, either around the existing applications...

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Adam Taylor

May 19, 20212 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: RFSoC Studio

One of the most common requests I get via my consultancy is about the RFSoC and how its capabilities can be leveraged. If you haven’t...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Hands On with the Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit

Adam Taylor

May 12, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Hands On with the Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit

If you missed the announcements and my recent blog, Xilinx now offers a range of production-ready system on modules (SOM) named Kria....

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MicroZed Chronicles: Custom Board Design? What if something doesn’t work?

Adam Taylor

May 5, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Custom Board Design? What if something doesn’t work?

A couple of weeks ago I was working to bring up the sensors connected to the I2C and SPI interfaces on the custom SensorsThink Smart...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Working with PYNQ Register Maps

Adam Taylor

Apr 28, 20212 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Working with PYNQ Register Maps

I use PYNQ a lot and one of the things I have been meaning to blog about is how it interacts with hardware. Whether it’s a custom overlay...

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Want to Get Started with ML at the Edge? Get Out Your Smart Phone.

Adam Taylor

Apr 23, 20213 min read

Want to Get Started with ML at the Edge? Get Out Your Smart Phone.

Many machine learning applications, like Amazon’s Alexa Key Word detector or industrial predictive maintenance solutions, are deployed at...

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MicroZed Chronicles: First Look at Xilinx Kria SoMs

Adam Taylor

Apr 20, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: First Look at Xilinx Kria SoMs

First look at the Xilinx Kria SoM portfolio, including features and pricing. Watch my exclusive interview with Xilinx on the new products.

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MicroZed Chronicles: Having Fun with the Basys3 Artix-7 FPGA Development Board

Adam Taylor

Apr 14, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Having Fun with the Basys3 Artix-7 FPGA Development Board

I recently hosted two webinars for Crowd Supply on how to create a fun, breakout Pong-type game on the Basys3 board. The class was not...

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MicroZed Chronicles: PetaLinux I2C in the PS and AXI IIC

Adam Taylor

Apr 9, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: PetaLinux I2C in the PS and AXI IIC

The sensors on the smart sensor IoT development board are connected to the programmable logic element of the Zynq-7020 device that is...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Smart Sensor IOT Board Getting USB Up and Running

Adam Taylor

Apr 2, 20213 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Smart Sensor IOT Board Getting USB Up and Running

The smart sensor IOT board we developed contains several interfaces that really require the use of an operating system to get them up and...

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