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  • PIIP - HW Lesson 0, 1, and 2

    aspork42
    Hello!This is the first of multiple posts in Path II Programmable training lessons from Element14, Xilinx, and Avnet. I participated in Path [1] to Programmable exactly 1 year ago, and was fortunate to be chosen for the second in the series. This yea...

  • Week #2

    cmelement14
    HW Lab 7 - Create Custom IP Lesson Learned - Case Sensitive Problem A Missing Field? Duplicated Lines Mystery Folder HW Lab 8 - Walk Around without Mezzanine Board Amazing Hardware Debugger & Built-in Logical Analyzer Missing Menu I...

  • P2P Blog 2: SW Labs 1-5

    nerdyupdates
    These first few labs have been about getting up and running on the Xilinx SDK and getting familiar with the SDK environment. SDK First Impressions The SDK is built on the Eclipse IDE platform. I have had very little interaction with Eclipse...

  • Growing Old waiting on SDK to start

    dcsoutherner
    It's been a little over 10 minutes (according to my cellphone's clock) since I clicked "Launch SDK"  from Vivado and the progress bar is almost halfway filled.I'm following the tutorials in the "MPSoC_HW_2018_3_student_complete" zip file, the "L...

  • Completed Developing Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC Software with Xilinx SDK Lab 1, Lab 2, Lab 3 and Lab 4

    buffteethr
    Lab 1 is very simple and helps you get familiar Zynq MPSoC hardware platform. Avnet uses a pre-built archived hardware platform to show you the ropes. They use an HDF file, which I have never seen before. The file is written out from Vivado. It conta...

  • P2P Week 1: Environment Setup and SW Labs

    vladrumyan
    IntroThis is the first time I publish something on element14 – so I am bit nervous but very excited about the journey, as we follow the three courses on developing for Zynq MPSoC. It took a while to ship the ULTRA96-V2 kit from Chicago to the UK, so ...

  • Week #1

    cmelement14
    Introduction Lab 0 - Pr-requisite Problem of Xilinx JTAG + Serial [0700] HW Lab 1 - Inconsistent Folder Format HW Lab 2 - Tip for Mapping I/O Pins HW Lab 3 - Probably Missing a Step HW Lab 6 - Slightly Different Conclusion Summary &n...

  • Getting Started

    dcsoutherner
    I'll be using the Xilinx software tool chain on a Linux host and not using a VM running on a Windows workstation.  I'm choosing this because the project i have in mind requires interaction between the Ultra96 and a software defined radio device ...

  • Path II Programmable Week 1

    ralphjy
    I was amazed at the huge amount of lesson material associated with Path II Programmable.  I ended up with around 10GB in 18 zip archives.  As I mentioned in my earlier blog, the training program is a combination of 3 Avnet Ultra96 courses.&...

  • congrats to all selected trainees

    shiva420
    Hope please add your experience and study materials so that it will help for not selected people to learn out of your experience.

  • Path II Programmable (P2P): Up and running

    nerdyupdates
    I'm finally up and running with the development environment and Xilinx tools. The training material was serious when it mentioned the Ubuntu virtual machine (VM) installation would take a significant amount of time! The VM instructions were ...

  • Finally Installed Vivado, Xilinx SDK, and PetaLinux but versions 2019.1

    buffteethr
    I installed the Vivado and Xilinx SDK tools along with Petalinux using the instructions from the link: http://avnet.me/AvnetTTC_VM  [Oracle VM VirtualBox Installation Instructions for Windows and Linux Virtual Machine Creation Targeting Avnet D...

  • The Challenge Begins

    ralphjy
    Wow.  I've been looking through the course material and it is quite comprehensive.  It's actually 3 Avnet courses combined into a one training package. Developing Zynq MPSoC Hardware (10 lectures, 9 labs)Developing Zynq MPSoC S...

  • Install an Ubuntu Virtual Machine

    buffteethr
    I installed the Vivado tools in Windows when I went through other tutorials in preparation for the training. However, Ubuntu is used in training given the use of PetaLinux. I found the latest PetaLinux Tools Documentation Reference Guide UG1144 (v201...

  • Path II Programmable - It begins

    buffteethr
    I downloaded all the materials for the Path II Programmable training yesterday. I am using Google Keep to organize my schedule. It makes it easier for me to check off what I have done and track my progress. The agenda below is pretty straight-forward...