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...

Designing a successful system requires not only the implementation of the algorithms within the programmable logic and processing systems...

A couple of weeks ago I was emailed about how to get the ethernet working on the Digilent Arty A7 development board. We have covered this...

There is a wide range of development boards on the market today. Some are ideal for beginners who are just learning programmable logic or...

You might have noticed several posts on the Avnet ZUBoard 1CG over the last six months. This board contains an AMD Xilinx ZU1CG MPSoC...

One of the questions I get asked a lot is which development board is the best for (beginner) FPGA and SOC development. Understandably,...

For many applications, selecting the most appropriate device is critical. Many of our clients are often questioning which device they...

Over the last few weeks, I have been working on commissioning the Nexus Certus™-NX LFD2NX-40 development board. You can find a previous...

It’s common for many custom FPGA board developments to contain a DDR3 memory. Of course, when we develop a custom board, we need to...

Ever since the previous overview, I’ve had the Avnet ZUBoard 1CG sitting on my desk. I also just purchased a FLIR C5 thermal imaging...

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

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...

I have heard several attendees mention Efinix FPGAs at a few conferences I have recently attended. As such, I thought I would take a...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...