MicroZed Chronicles: UltraScale IO Resources
I have recently come across an interesting requirement from a customer that includes driving high-energy systems with a series of pulses...
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Adam Taylor
Jun 21, 20222 min read
Meet Rapid Silicon: Open-Source FPGA and Toolchain
Rapid Silicon is bringing open source to the FPGA space with the introduction of it's Gemini device family and Raptor EDA environment.
Adam Taylor
Jun 8, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Synchronization & Metastability
Over the last week I noticed a few questions on r/FPGA and from a client on metastability and synchronizing signals coming into the...
Adam Taylor
May 30, 20223 min read
Creating a Nios II Processor
FPGAs are great for high performance, low latency, deterministic applications. When it comes to implementation of sequential structures...
Adam Taylor
May 19, 20224 min read
Efinix Trion FPGA and Xyloni Development Board
I have heard several attendees mention Efinix FPGAs at a few conferences I have recently attended. As such, I thought I would take a...
Adam Taylor
May 17, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Kria Robotics Starter Kit
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...
Adam Taylor
May 16, 20224 min read
Quartus Prime Lite Flow
So far on our journey exploring Intel devices, we have examined the range of devices and tool chains used for development. In this blog,...
Adam Taylor
May 11, 20222 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Spartan-6 Migration Summary
Over the last few months, we have explored how to migrate from Spartan-6 FPGAs to 7 series and beyond in order to help developers with...
Adam Taylor
May 3, 20226 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Using a DSP48E2 as a Multiplexer
I am a regular reader of many FPGA notice boards. A few days ago, I saw a question about how the DSP48E2 could be used as a multiplexer....
Adam Taylor
May 2, 20223 min read
Intel FPGA Tool Chain Introduction
In our last look at Intel FPGAs and SoCs, we examined the range of devices and gave a brief overview of the architectures and common...
Adam Taylor
Apr 20, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Numato Mimas and Narvi Boards
A couple of weeks ago I received the Mimas and Narvi development boards from Numato Labs, both containing Xilinx 7 series devices. The...
Adam Taylor
Apr 18, 20223 min read
Intel FPGAs Overview
Running an embedded systems consultancy is exciting because we get to work with a wide range of applications, devices, and technologies....
Adam Taylor
Apr 13, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: AXI Stream FIFO IP Core
We looked at the AXI Virtual FIFO Controller in a blog a couple weeks ago and created an example design running on the Arty S7-50 while...
Adam Taylor
Apr 5, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: JTAG using a Raspberry Pi Pico
I’m a big fan of the Raspberry Pi Pico with the RP2040 microcontroller and have used it several times to emulate system interfaces on my...
Adam Taylor
Mar 30, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: AXI Virtual FIFO Controller
FIFOs are versatile tools to use within our designs because they enable us to buffer data when doing signal and image processing. We also...
Adam Taylor
Mar 18, 20223 min read
Lattice Launches FPGA for Space!
As readers of this blog will know, my company does a lot of design and development in the space industry. This includes developing FPGA...
Adam Taylor
Mar 16, 20222 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Partial Reconfiguration and Block Diagrams
We introduced partial reconfiguration using very simple RTL a couple of weeks ago. In this blog, we are going to look at how to create a...
Adam Taylor
Mar 9, 20222 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Spartan 6 Q & A
A couple of week ago, I held several webinars on how to convert Spartan-6 designs into 7 series devices. There were several interesting...
Adam Taylor
Mar 2, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Partial Configuration Introduction
Getting the most efficient utilization of our FPGA does not mean that we need to have the logic resources dedicated to all use cases. We...
Adam Taylor
Feb 23, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Advanced SelectIO Logic Resources
Last week we looked at IDELAY2 and ODELAY2 in 7 series IO, the selectIO which is included in 7 Series, UltraScale and UltraScale+...
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