MicroZed Chronicles: 7 Series FPGA IDELAY2 / ODELAY2
One of the greatest things about FPGAs is their IO flexibility. This flexibility allows us to recover high-speed signals, align data...
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Adam Taylor
Jan 12, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: MicroBlaze in Spartan-6 (ISE/EDK) and 7 Series (Vivado)
Over the years, I have created MicroBlaze solutions for many Xilinx devices including Spartan-6, 7 series and up. Inserting a MicroBlaze...
Adam Taylor
Dec 15, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: High-Level Synthesis Interfacing
High-Level Synthesis can provide us a significant advantage when we are working in the data plane (e.g., signal / image processing and...
Adam Taylor
Dec 1, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: MiniZed, Accelerometer, I2C and i2C Tools
Embedded systems use a lot of diverse sensors from accelerometers and gyroscopes to magnetometers, vibration, temperature and humidity....
Adam Taylor
Nov 3, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: GitHub Copilot
Programable logic is, of course, great for the implementation and acceleration of machine learning and artificial intelligence...
Adam Taylor
Oct 13, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Porting Bluespec RISC-V to Another Board
A few weeks ago, we looked at the new Bluespec RISC-V core which is deployed on an Arty A7-100T. I was curious to see how easy it would...
Adam Taylor
Sep 29, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Bluespec RISC-V
There are several FPGA use cases where a softcore processor is beneficial to the overall solution. These can include anything from...
Adam Taylor
Sep 22, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Certified Ubuntu on Xilinx SoCs
Having an embedded Linux operating system is critical for Xilinx heterogeneous SoCs to be able to achieve their full potential. The...
Adam Taylor
Sep 15, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Kria & Raspberry Pi Camera
On my explorations with the Kria board so far, all the imaging has been using a web camera over USB. Of course, we also can capture...
Adam Taylor
Sep 1, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Real Digital Blackboard
We have looked at many development boards that are based on Xilinx FPGAs and SoCs during the eight years this blog has been running....
Adam Taylor
Aug 10, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Kria SOM and Vitis AI 1.4
A few weeks ago, Xilinx released Vitis AI 1.4. This was around the same time I was working on a project with the Kria SOM for a client on...
Adam Taylor
Aug 4, 20212 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Example Designs in Vivado and Vitis
Over the years, several blogs and projects have leveraged the Vivado and Vitis ability to generate example projects. One of the most...
Adam Taylor
Jul 27, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: A Look at the UltraZed EV/EG Board
The first-ever MPSoC I received to work and create blogs with was an engineering sample of the UltraZed-EG in red. It worked well, but...
Adam Taylor
Jul 21, 20215 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Proportional Integral Derivative Controller using HLS
If I’m being honest, my university classes on control engineering were not my favorite. However, working as an engineer – and especially...
Adam Taylor
Jul 14, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: MicroBlaze Internal / External Memory and Cache
It’s interesting how often I seem to go through similar development projects with different clients. Within a short period of time...
Adam Taylor
Jul 7, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: The 400th Edition
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...
Adam Taylor
Jun 30, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Clock Switching
Last week we examined several techniques for generating non-integer clock divisions in our FPGA if no PLL was available or we couldn’t...
Adam Taylor
Jun 23, 20214 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: A Blast from the Past!
Modern FPGA devices really spoil us. They include PLLs, DCM, DSP etc. and a range of interfaces that significantly ease our developments....
Adam Taylor
Jun 16, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Designing in DDR to your FPGA
Over the last two months, I have had several clients approach me for help regarding DDR3 / DDR3L interfaces that they have connected to...
Adam Taylor
Jun 10, 20213 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Estimating FPGA Development Times
As a consultant, correctly estimating the time it will take to develop an FPGA or module can mean the difference between making a profit...
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