In 2018, element14 launched its charter Path to Programmable training class. The premise behind Path to Programmable training was to provide some of our member-engineers who had limited experience designing with programmable devices an opportunity to...

Project OverviewMy project is inspired by the work I did during my Masters degree. Back then I got to experiment with implementing several variations of Evolutionary Algorithms to solve some problems in the Telecommunications field. At that point, ev...

I would like to say I thoroughly enjoyed working on the Path II Programming training project. As someone who does FPGA design for a living with a different manufacturer it was refreshing learning the Ultrascale FPGA and Vivado tools from Xilinx. Init...

Well, the time has come (passed really) to post about our projects for the Path II Programmable training program. rscasny has been gracious enough as to not strictly enforce the project end date, so thank you Randall! I finished the training materia...

Continuing on from where I left off in Path II Programmable Blog 10 - Project Part 1 - Exploring PYNQ with the Ultra96v2 ...   IP to capture waveforms to, and generate waveforms from BRAM:   I created a new IP that can capture data from an ...

Introduction To begin with, I have to apologise for a big delay between this post and my previous one. Fractured arm slowed me down a lot but did not stop me completely, so I am back:)   This post will conclude my Ultra96 training and will cover...

The Path II Programmable training covered a great deal of Zynq MPSoC Hardware, Software and Petalinux content - covering almost everything required to build a Zynq MPSoC system: right from the logic running to the PL, to Petalinux and software applic...

Introduction Hardware Prepare PYNQ image SD Card Check if Your Webcam Works with PYNQ Connect to Ultra96 UART Connection Network Connection through USB Cable WiFi Connection Software Update PYNQ Download, Build and Install OpenCV 4.1.1 Upda...

Has anyone here run into an issue with the PYNQ v2.5 image for the Ultra96-V2 and WIfi? The wlan0 does not show up with the ifconfig command. I did some digging and noticed that there is NO wpa_supplicant.conf file is missing.

One of the Jupyter Notebooks that comes install with PYNQ is the USb Webcam. It captures an image from the C525 webcam, then converts it to black and white then rotates it.

Well I got the webcam finally. It is the C525 from Logitech. I tested it on Windows 10 first to make sure it work. I now have it plugged into the Ultra96-V2 and I am working on getting video through the system. I am not connected to the wifi for...

In this labs I have learnt about how to configure the PS according with the platform that is going to be used, add IP from the Xilinx catalogue and create your custom IP. Further, the power of the TCL scripting is explained and I realized how to do s...

This will be the last in my series of Path II Programmable blogs.  The Path II Programmable training courses and project have been a great learning experience.  Although it's not without headaches and frustration, I'm really enjoying workin...

In this post, I go down the path of creating my own project using the Ultra96 V2 board. I have created a semi-wireless color picker for my kitchen tile backsplash based on the Ultra96, Click Mezzanine, and LSM6DSL accelerometer/gyroscope. Based on th...

I have PYNQ running on my board. I am going through the process of learning the Jupyter Notebook and brushing up on my Python. Since I want the flexibility of working on my notebook code anywhere without my board I decided to install Jupyter on my Ub...

I am really far behind with the blog writing for this course so I have summarised all the software labs into one blog. I have also completed the hardware labs so will try and a similar blog post for them out over the next couple of days...before we a...

In the last lab of the Petalinux training I learnt how to:• Create and install a custom application into the Ultra96’s PetaLinux file system.• Compile a custom C application using a Makefile.• Build Ultra96’s PetaLinux from scratch (given a BSP)• Ins...

In Lab 5 I learnt how to:• Collect sensor data from SPI Sensors.• Use the MQTT IoT protocol to send data to servers.• Create JSON formatted information that IoT applications often use.• Setup my own IBM Bluemix Quickstart cloud service. See the ...

In Lab 4 I learnt how to:• Import existing C/C++ programs into the Xilinx SDK Eclipse based development tool.• Develop PetaLinux user applications meaning: edit, compile, link, transfer and debug programs on the Ultra96 using the Xilinx SDK.• Read an...

This is my first blog, and I going to explain how I have install the software in my own laptop. I prefer to install all Xilinx tools in a host machine instead of a VM because some time ago I used to install everything in a linux VM (I was a windows u...

I am on the final stages of the PetaLinux labs and about to start my project. Unfortunately, the apt and apt-get commands are not working and I cannot find away to install the commands. Any help would be appreciate. I need these commands for my proje...

In lab 3 I built a more advanced hardware platform into a more feature rich PetaLinux system. Features for Networking, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth BLE and for using SPI devices through the Click Mezzanine and Low Speed connectors was added to the PetaLinux. To ...

Lab 0 and Lab 1 involved setting up the PetaLinux development environment wit the Xilinx SDOC tools. I used the latest version of the Linux tools 2019.1 instead of the 2018.3 version used in the training.  The minimal PetaLinux on the Ultra96 pl...

With the software and hardware labs complete, it was time for the final leg of the training which was PetaLinux. This series felt the least structured of the three and the training wheels came off as soon as possible, unlike the software and hardware...

Hi,Has anyone gotten these Errors when trying to build ? | collect2: fatal error: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed]| compilation terminated.| ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.| WARNING: /home/buffteethr/petalinux/2018_3/support_documen...