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Programming the Clock Generator Reference Design – 2024.1 Is NOT Working

Umallik — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:30:35 GMT

I am stuck at the Vitis Select OS and Processor step in the : Programming the Clock Generator Reference Design – 2024.1. I used the prebuilt xsa file to generate a Vitis package: The Software never displays an OS and Processor selection for the...(read more)

Benchmarking Edge Impulse on Avnet's MaaXBoard

fononye — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 19:49:08 GMT

Introduction This will walk you through setting up your MaaXBoard with the hardware and software you must have, direct you through changes to make on an Edge impulse project and additional package installation steps, and result in r...(read more)

ZUBoard Chronicles

narrucmot — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 21:18:00 GMT

ZUBoard Blogs ZUBoard 1CG #1 – Defining a Product in Today’s Market ZUBoard 1CG #2 – How to Begin System Architecture The ZUBoard 1CG at Embedded Vision Summit, Embedded World, and Sensors Converge ZUBoard 1CG #3 - Getting Started ...(read more)

ZUBoard 1CG #3 - Getting Started with Schematic Capture

jafoste4 — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 21:57:00 GMT

Beginning Schematic Capture Challenges of Schematic Capture Defining Variants within Altium, reasoning behind defining different builds Finalizing Schematics, Review process ect. Schematic Capture can be considered a daunting task especially whe...(read more)

The ZUBoard 1CG at Embedded Vision Summit, Embedded World, and Sensors Converge

jafoste4 — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 21:56:00 GMT

The ZUBoard 1CG at Embedded Vision Summit, Embedded World, and Sensors Converge I wanted to discuss with everyone the ZUBoard 1CG and showcase some of the amazing work being done around it. In particular I wanted to dig into what this board is along ...(read more)

ZUBoard 1CG #2 – How to Begin System Architecture

jafoste4 — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 01:14:00 GMT

How to begin, system architecture Pin Mapping of a Xilinx Device Defining Chip Sets used What meets your system Architecture design Todays Chip Challenges, putting this as a top priority Order Now! When beginning your system archite...(read more)

ZUBoard -- A New Xilinx Board to Upgrade Your MiniZed

bhfletcher — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 23:04:00 GMT

ZUBoard 1CG Announced Avnet announced the ZUBoard 1CG in May and went on to show the prototypes at the Embedded Vision Summit. The prototypes will be demonstrated at Embedded World in Germany next week as well and Sensors Converge later this month. h...(read more)

ZUBoard 1CG #1 – Defining a Product in Today’s Market

jafoste4 — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 16:46:00 GMT

Hello all! With the ZUBoard 1CG now being released I wanted to take some time and bring you through a blog series highlighting what went into the creation of the ZUBoard 1CG development kit. In particular we are going to discuss everything from defin...(read more)

MiniZed Technical Training Course on Xilinx 2021.1 Vitis and Vivado Tools now Released

c_chil — Thu, 26 May 2022 16:18:00 GMT

If you have been a long-time follower of Element 14 community, The Avnet Board community, and our FPGA forum then you know there has not been a new release of the MiniZed Technical Training Courses (TTC) since 2019. Well, the long awaited update has ...(read more)

You better cool it with that Kria K26 SOM - Thermal Management Solution for K26

ctammann — Wed, 25 May 2022 19:37:00 GMT

AMD-Xilinx (gonna take me a while to get used to that name) released their own system on module (SOM) solution with the introduction of the Kria K26 family. These were originally released along with vision AI starter kit to help developers get starte...(read more)

Update for Linaro Connect event for 96Boards

bhfletcher — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 20:36:00 GMT

The Ultra96 boards are part of the Linaro 96Boards consortium. Ultra96 follows the 96Boards Consumer Edition Specification. As stated on the 96Boards About page, "96Boards is a range of hardware specifications created by Linaro to make the lates...(read more)

UltraZed EG and EV cold start issue (-40C), fix and ECN info

ctammann — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:53:00 GMT

I mentioned in a previous post that we were investigating a cold start issue on some Avnet products related to a spec change to the IRPS5401 PMIC from Infineon. To learn more about the issue please check out my previous blog - /technologies/power-man...(read more)

Summer of FPGA: Using the Mikroe LCD Mini Click on the Ultra96-V2 - Part Two

Andrew J — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 20:29:16 GMT

I want to build on the design created in Workshop 4 of the Summer of FPGA series with the Ultra96-V2. That workshop created a design to use the UART click board and a PWM IP to drive the backlight on a LCD Mini Click board. The foundation...(read more)

Summer of FPGA: Using the Mikroe LCD Click Mini on the Ultra96-V2 - Part One

Andrew J — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 18:43:00 GMT

Ultra96-V2 Workshop Homework: Peripherals Test

bhfletcher — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 09:14:00 GMT

During Ultra96-V2 Workshop: Session 3: Hello World on a Cortex-A53 and R5 Processor , one of the homework assignments was to create and run the Peripherals Test from the Example Templates. I also mentioned that you may run into an issue during the ru...(read more)