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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Adam Taylor
Oct 14 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Python Scripting Solutions with Vitis
To make my blogs and demonstrations illustrative I often use captures from the graphical user interface. However, professionally as an...
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...
Adam Taylor
Sep 185 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Interviews
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...
Adam Taylor
Aug 283 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Perfecting Pipelining
One of the main methods of increasing timing performance in our FPGA designs is to implement pipelining. At its heart, pipelining allows...
Adam Taylor
Aug 204 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Beyond Basics—Intermediate FPGA Projects
I am often asked in emails and social media such as LinkedIn / (X) Twitter, what projects people learning FPGA should look at that are...
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...
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....
Adam Taylor
Jul 155 min read
Logic Gates and Boarding Gates.
A few weeks ago, someone asked me on LinkedIn if I would write a blog about what I do on an average day. The reality is that since...
Adam Taylor
Jul 95 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Automatically Adding Build Version.
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,...
Adam Taylor
Jun 213 min read
Delving into Renesas ForgeFPGAs: A Primer on Low-Density Logic Solutions
One of the FPGAs I have wanted to examine since it was announced is the new Renesas ForgeFPGA. These devices offer developers a...
Adam Taylor
Jun 164 min read
GateMate Integrated Logic Analyser
Over the last few months we have been experimenting with the Colonge Chip GateMAte FPGA on the original development board along with the...
Adam Taylor
Jun 114 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: MicroBlaze V MCS
Last week, we examined the new MicroBlaze V, which is based on the popular RISC-V RV32I Instruction Set Architecture. This enabled me to...
Adam Taylor
Jun 54 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Introducing the MicroBlaze Risc-V
One of the things I have been very excited about recently is the MicroBlaze RISC-V or MicroBlaze V as it will be known. The MicroBlaze V...
Adam Taylor
Apr 235 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Custom K26 Kria Board Design and Bring Up
One of the projects we’ve been working on recently is the development of a custom K26 carrier board. This project is interesting because...
Adam Taylor
Apr 163 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Alinx VD100
One of the nice things about writing this blog is that I get to take a look at many new FPGA and SoC boards. A few weeks ago, I received...
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...
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...
Adam Taylor
Mar 68 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: The Frequency Domain
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...
Adam Taylor
Feb 233 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Alveo Edition SW Development
Having learned in our previous blog about how the Base Address Registers work for transfers in the Alveo system, we are now able to start...
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