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MicroZed Chronicles: Baseline Timing Closure.

Oct 224 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Baseline Timing Closure.

One of the main challenges FPGA designers face, especially those new to FPGA design is how to achieve timing closure. While it seems...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Accelerating FPGA Design Cycles with IP Cores and Open Libraries

Adam Taylor

Oct 163 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Accelerating FPGA Design Cycles with IP Cores and Open Libraries

The goal of professional FPGA development is to deliver projects on quality, on time, and within budget. Achieving this, however, can be...

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MicroZed Chronicles: From Bits to Plots: Visualizing XADC Data with Python

Adam Taylor

Oct 94 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: From Bits to Plots: Visualizing XADC Data with Python

One of the things I enjoy is when people reach out with suggestions for blogs and projects that would help them. A recent suggestion was...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Spartan 7 Tile and System Controller.

Adam Taylor

Sep 245 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Spartan 7 Tile and System Controller.

Over the last few months we have been developing a tile, which contains a Spartan 7 XC7S25 and all of the supporting peripherals...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Avnet K24 I/O Development Kit.

Adam Taylor

Jul 304 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Avnet K24 I/O Development Kit.

Regular readers will know I am big fan of the System of Module approach, we design many into systems and solution for out clients and if...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Technical Risk and Technology Readiness Levels

Adam Taylor

Jul 165 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Technical Risk and Technology Readiness Levels

FPGAs are commonly used across a range of applications from Space, and Aerospace to Automotive, Robotics, and Commercial applications....

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Adam Taylor

May 214 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Tackling Timing.

There are many factors that come together to create a successful FPGA design. Not only do we need to have a sensible architecture, IP...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Using Python to Extract ILA Data

Adam Taylor

Apr 94 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Using Python to Extract ILA Data

As we look at how to debug our systems, one commonly used approach is to implement an ILA within the design for system observation in the...

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MicroZed Chronicles: The CORDIC Algorithm

Adam Taylor

Mar 136 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: The CORDIC Algorithm

In last weeks blog, we looked at one of the most important algorithms ever developed: the FFT. In this week’s blog, we’ll be discussing...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Spartan 7 and AXI over UART

Adam Taylor

Feb 283 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Spartan 7 and AXI over UART

One of the things I’ve been doing recently is working with the Leonidas development board which we developed back in 2023. This board...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Creating a Versal AI Edge Design

Adam Taylor

Jan 174 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Creating a Versal AI Edge Design

A couple of weeks ago we looked at the Trenz TE0950 development board which contains a Versal AI Edge XCVE2302 device in ES1. This means...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Getting started with FPGAs

Adam Taylor

Jan 103 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Getting started with FPGAs

One of the questions people often ask me is how to get started on the journey of learning about FPGAs. Of course, everyone’s journey is...

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Adam Taylor

Jan 73 min read

GateMate FPGA Tool Chain

A few weeks ago we looked at the GateMate FPGA from Cologne Chip. In this blog we are going to explore the GateMate FPGA tool chain and...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Versal AI Edge and TE0950

Adam Taylor

Jan 33 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Versal AI Edge and TE0950

In the 2024 MicroZed Chronicles, we are going to examine Versal in depth with a particular focus on the AI Edge series. We’ve looked at...

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Adam Taylor

Nov 29, 20234 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Leonidas Board

Learning how to develop FPGAs and embedded systems can be a challenge so I like to think that this blog has provided significant support...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Vivado Board Definitions

Adam Taylor

Nov 15, 20235 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Vivado Board Definitions

We will be releasing a new open source development board in a few weeks and will eventually be offering a free training course for it,...

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Adam Taylor

Oct 24, 20234 min read

MicroZed Chronicles : Hackster Projects

Over the last five years, I have been writing some very in-depth projects on Hackster in addition to my weekly blogs. These projects have...

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MicroZed Chronicles: Artix UltraScale+ and Opal Kelly XEM8320

Adam Taylor

Sep 5, 20233 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Artix UltraScale+ and Opal Kelly XEM8320

We have created projects and blogs on most AMD families over the years but have never created one for the Artix UltraScale+ (AUP) FPGA....

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MicroZed Chronicles: Avnet ZUBoard 1CG and Dual Camera High-Speed IO Module

Adam Taylor

Jul 26, 20233 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: Avnet ZUBoard 1CG and Dual Camera High-Speed IO Module

As we have discussed several times in this blog, programmable logic is ideal for the development of image processing systems due to its...

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MicroZed Chronicles: 10 Years and 500 Posts

Adam Taylor

Jun 20, 20235 min read

MicroZed Chronicles: 10 Years and 500 Posts

In September 2013, I was about to start a new role, as head of electronics at a space imaging developer when what should arrive in the...

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