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

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

Recently, I've seen a lot of questions about how to prepare for interviews, especially for those looking to land their first FPGA job or...

The peripherals we communicate with in embedded systems use a wide range of interfaces from I2C, UART, SPI to Gigabit ethernet and PCIe....

One of the main methods of increasing timing performance in our FPGA designs is to implement pipelining. At its heart, pipelining allows...

I am often asked in emails and social media such as LinkedIn / (X) Twitter, what projects people learning FPGA should look at that are...

FPGA are excellent for image processing, their parallel nature easily allows us to implement parallel processing stages. Over the years...

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...

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

Last week we examined how we could work with Git and source control on our FPGA designs. Along with working with Git for source control,...

One of the skills which FPGA developers need to master is that of working with source control tools such as git. A few months ago I...

One of the FPGAs I have wanted to examine since it was announced is the new Renesas ForgeFPGA. These devices offer developers a...

Over the last few months we have been experimenting with the Colonge Chip GateMAte FPGA on the original development board along with the...

Last week, we examined the new MicroBlaze V, which is based on the popular RISC-V RV32I Instruction Set Architecture. This enabled me to...

Last week, we looked at how we could create a baseline timing closure, which hopefully helps with achieving timing closure. Of course,...

One of the projects we’ve been working on recently is the development of a custom K26 carrier board. This project is interesting because...

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...

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...

Recently, I have posted a few blogs and projects which looked at signal processing or filters. I thought it would be a good idea to go...

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