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Path II Programmable: Final Projects and Graduation Awards

2020-02-18T18:20:54Z

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...(read more)

P2P Project Blog 1

2020-02-10T03:00:52Z

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...(read more)

Path II Programmable Project Report ( License Plate Recognition ): Finished

2020-01-16T21:29:00Z

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...(read more)

P2P: Project Report

2020-01-11T10:42:00Z

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...(read more)

Path II Programmable Blog 11 - Project Part 2 - Generating & capturing data with the Ultra96v2 & PYNQ

2020-01-10T03:34:00Z

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 ...(read more)

P2P: PetaLinux Module

2020-01-06T12:22:00Z

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...(read more)

Path II Programmable Blog 10 - Project Part 1 - Exploring PYNQ with the Ultra96v2

2019-12-27T06:29:39Z

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...(read more)

P2P Project - Facial Recognition

2019-12-26T22:58:00Z

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...(read more)

PYNQ+Ultra96-V2 and Wifi???

2019-12-22T05:07:49Z

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.(read more)

PYNQ+Ultra96-V2 and USB Webcam

2019-12-22T04:09:32Z

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.(read more)

PYNQ and the Ultra96-V2: Getting video through the system

2019-12-22T02:01:35Z

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...(read more)

HW Labs

2019-12-18T08:48:00Z

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...(read more)

PIIP Project - Final Update

2019-12-16T16:30:00Z

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...(read more)

PIIP - Project Complete! A wireless (ish) kitchen backsplash color picker

2019-12-14T05:12:00Z

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...(read more)

PYNQ V2.5 is running on my Ultra96-V2

2019-12-13T22:42:14Z

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...(read more)