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2020 PYNQ-Z2 Workshop - in 2026: Getting Started/Lab 1

2026-02-20T21:51:34Z

I have a little more time on my hands these days and while looking for something (I forget what), I came across the PYNQ-Z2 board that I had won in a Hackster competition. It was kind of a bucket raffle where you earned points and could "bid" o...(read more)

PYNQ Overlay creation per Getting up and Running

2020-08-29T03:24:57Z

This was a tutorial without feedback. I had NO idea what I did except to click , drag, and connect. I double-checked my connections and the bitstream came out fine. I wish I would have an understanding of what the IP components do beyond their ...(read more)

QNNClassifier Fun

2020-08-28T18:29:00Z

I used scp to copy images from my host machine into the QNN classifer's directory to see what happened. A pile of cigarette butts was missed-- it got some animal. I threw it an italian spinone dog and it got the following:class: otterhound probabilit...(read more)

My final creation

2020-08-03T03:16:55Z

first of all, i am truly sorry for delay in posting, as there is some shipment complexity and i only got my PYNQ-Z2 board first week of July. it is somewhat too short time to rush through everythingeventually over the last week , i manage to rush thr...(read more)

PYNQ Workshop 2

2020-08-03T03:11:25Z

By the time i got my board to test it is early July, so it is kind of latefor the session 2, my original aim is to use does overlay on IO to control on/off of water pump to shoot waterfollowing the lab book 2 (which is also accessible from Github htt...(read more)

Ping Pong trainer

2020-07-28T19:07:56Z

Introduction First of all, this is a work in progress. This blog will be updated regularly. I did not post any of this yet since development is going slow. Partly due to the beginning of July being very hectic work-wise...Anyhow, I would like to...(read more)

Ponq - bringing Pong to life with Pynq

2020-07-07T10:41:08Z

What's Ponq?A false startI'd been wondering exactly what to so for my PYNQ embedded vision project. I'd started out with an attempt to identify racing kayaks as they crossed the finish line, but I was having a lot of trouble with the OCR ...(read more)

Install OpenVINO on PYNQ-Z2

2020-06-13T23:26:35Z

I received an Intel NCS 2 from the Hackster Deep Learning Giveaway. I've used the original NCS on the PYNQ-Z2 and the Ultra96v2 using the NCSDK toolkit and I've just tried the NCS and NCS 2 on a RPi4 using the OpenVINO toolkit. &nb...(read more)

Using PYNQ as user interface/user experience platform

2020-06-08T18:15:21Z

Using OpenCV to detect a face or other specific object on an image isn't something new or groundbreaking. However many machine vision applications are based on such functionality and the best ones excel because they provide the best UI and user e...(read more)

PYNQ-Z2 Select Video Source

2020-06-07T00:01:28Z

I'm finally getting around to doing my homework from session 3. I decided to do a simple modification of adding an AXI4-Stream Switch so that I could select between video sources, in this case between the HDMI camera and the TPG (test patte...(read more)

PYNQ-Z2 Workshop - Lab 1: Debugging CAN Project with PYNQ

2020-06-05T23:37:55Z

TL;DR: Debugging a CAN board with PYNQ-Z2's logictools and WaveDrom -> -> A lot faster than debugging Assembly! This blog is long overdue, I hope your tea did not...(read more)

PYNQ Session 1: pynq starter project with logictools overlay : The missing blog

2020-05-31T21:10:13Z

The PYNQ is a versatile platform that combines the power of FPGA with the flexibility of software(python on linux). Running atop the Zynq series of SOCs from Xilinx, this platform builds towards rapid prototyping of solutions. In this blo...(read more)

Auxiliary PYNQ-Z2 features - using USB, GPIO and various HDMI setups for handy HDMI processing

2020-05-31T19:46:04Z

The webinar focused on video processing while the PYNQ-Z2 board has additional features that can be used when making an edge-processing prototype.You can use the USB host connector to connect a UART serial/RS232 adapter to then control some electroni...(read more)

Pynq-Z2 Getting Up and Running Overlay Modification

2020-05-25T19:10:00Z

I was somewhat inspired by beacon_dave 's post on his overlay modification so I decided to do something very similar. I'm adding the Button interface to the overlay we created in Session 2 so that I can control the pattern that is displ...(read more)

PYNQ-Z2 Getting Up and Running

2020-05-20T03:06:12Z

Another great workshop with Adam Taylor today. Adam went through creating a new Pynq overlay in Vivado. The workshop created an overlay with a VDMA element to interface the TPG (test pattern generator) with the Processing system. The...(read more)