MicroZed Chronicles: UltraScale+ IO, ODELAY3E and Cascading
We looked recently at the UltraScale+ IO resources which provide a range of capabilities that can be very effective in addressing both...
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Adam Taylor
Nov 23, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Free Webinars, Workshops, Tutorials and App Notes
One of my passions is sharing information about how we can develop better, more effective FPGA designs. This passion is the driving force...
Adam Taylor
Nov 16, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Stream FIFO
A few months ago, we looked at the AXI Stream FIFO. The AXI Steaming FIFO allows developers to be able to access AXI Streams from AXI...
Adam Taylor
Oct 18, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Video Frame Buffer Write
When I’ve previously created image processing blogs or applications, I have tended to use the Video Direct Memory Access (VDMA) module to...
Adam Taylor
Sep 28, 20222 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: MATLAB, Model Composer, and the Avnet ZUBoard
Over the last few weeks, I have been creating a course centered around the Avnet ZUBoard which will be like the MiniZed and Ultra96-V2...
Adam Taylor
Aug 31, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Memory Scrubbing
One of the great things about the BRAM in Xilinx FPGAs is its ability to implement error correcting codes (ECC) on the data stored...
Adam Taylor
Aug 23, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: 10 Rules for HDL Development.
Writing good, portable, reusable HDL code, that enables the synthesized design to implement at the desired frequency can definitely be a...
Adam Taylor
Jun 29, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Processor System to Programmable Logic Interrupts
One of the critical techniques in an embedded system that enables responsive software is using interrupts. In this series, we have used...
Adam Taylor
Jun 23, 20222 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Higher Levels of Abstraction
I am very interested in higher levels of abstraction for developing FPGAs and especially algorithms like image processing and control....
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 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
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 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+...
Adam Taylor
Jan 26, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Scripting Vivado
Throughout the nine years I’ve been doing this blog, the majority, if not all, of the examples and Hackster projects have been...
Adam Taylor
Jan 5, 20223 min read
MicroZed Chronicles: Versal Part One
One of areas I started to explore last year, but never got chance to write more than a single blog on was Versal and the VMK180...
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