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My first step into the FPGA world

strb

Almost a year ago, I received a very nice surprise from e14. Unfortunately, until now it sat aside, waiting for some love. This is going to change soon! The board The CMOD S7 from Digilent is a very nice little board, fitted with a Spartan 7 FPGA at ...
- 18 Aug 2024
Lattice iCEcube2 Now a Subscription Licence

jc2048

This will apply to anyone designing with the iCE40 parts, including the iCEstick board. When I came to do my yearly renewal for the iCEcube2 design software, I discovered that it is now subscription based (previously it was free). The prices are here...
- 29 Jul 2024
Design and Development of Keyword Spotting Module using MFCC algorithm for Robotic Movement on PYNQ-Z1 Board

kishankarthik2008

IntroductionCurrent Scenario: Is a spoken word audio dataset intended to aid in the development and evaluation of keyword recognition systems? Explains the appeal of this task as a challenge and the need for a unique dataset that is distinct fr...
- 19 Jun 2024
Booting ZUB1CG with AES-ACC-DPEMMC-G

Z_Gaby

Discover the capabilities of the AES-ACC-DPEMMC-G module, including DisplayPort output and eMMC storage, and learn how to integrate it with ZUB1CG (Zynq UltraScale+ boards).
- 15 May 2024
Software Defined Transceiver Redux

ad0es

My last project: Direct Fourier Conversion Software Defined Transceiver turned out to be un-workable... I'm going to re-tool with a new board, and decided to start a new blog from scratch. I ordered this board today: It uses a KINTEX-7 F...
- 26 Feb 2024
Need Datasheet for AES-XRF16-CC-G-D

nc1

Please provide the full datasheet (pinout, board requirements, interfacing information, etc) for AES-XRF16-CC-G-D. The manual the AVNET website is very minimal. Thank you.
- 23 Feb 2024
Update Kria Boot Firmware on SOM before installing Ubuntu version 22.04

skruglewicz

This post we’ll go through the steps for updating the boot firmware of your Kria SoM. I describe how I updated my Kria SoM boot firmware on the KV260 starter kit. If you are unaware Ubuntu 22.04 is NOT compatible with the Boot Firmware that com...
- 21 Jan 2024
The Art of FPGA Design - Post 40

fpgaguru

Instantiating the DSPFP32 the Easy Way The final thing we need to use the new Versal DSPFP32 hardened floating point primitive is a way to access them through VHDL code. While it would be very nice to be able to infer the primitives, especially since...
- 24 Dec 2023
The New DSPFP32 Primitive in Versal FPGAs

fpgaguru

The New DSPFP32 Primitive in Versal FPGAs The DSP primitive in the latest Versal FPGA family is called DSP58 and it already has a number of improvements over the latest DSP48 flavors, mainly an increase from 27x18 signed multiplier and 48-bit post ad...
- 19 Dec 2023
The Art of FPGA Design - Post 38

fpgaguru

VHDL-2008 FP32 Support in Vivado VHDL-2008 introduced native support for floating point types with FLOAT, which is an arbitrary precision floating point type. While you can define generic modules with ports of unconstrained FLOAT type, or any actual ...
- 2 Dec 2023
Direct Fourier Conversion Software Defined Transceiver

ad0es

Decided to expand on my last project: dfcSDR Problem of the moment: This board just isn't gonna work out. Moving to a Kintex 7 board: Software Defined Transceiver Redux ============================================================ Ordered this board ...
- 25 Aug 2023
Direct Fourier Conversion Software Defined Radio using Cuda Processing

ad0es

This blog will document my effort to make an SDR receiver using an Artix-7 FPGA reading multiple ADCs and sending the raw 16 bit samples over PCIe. Problem of the moment: Too many projects ... not enough time! =======================================...
- 18 Jun 2023
OrangeCrab Game Console pt. 4 - Sprites

dang74

The last blog covered the generation of background tiles. This time around we'll look at another facet of retro graphics. This one in my opinion is much more exciting: Hardware Sprites! Beginnings of a Journey Growing up in the 1980s the s...
- 31 May 2023
FPGA and DSP ep. 4: Polyphase Filters

dhmarinov

Hello there, I just posted a video on YouTube about Polyphase filters. You can check it out here: https://youtu.be/06XRSkkfhek Cheers! PS: looks like I forgot to post the 3rd episode, which is about Half-band FIRs. You can find it in the ...
- 14 May 2023
Blinking a LED with PYNQ in Kria KV260 / KR260

rajivbishwokarma

1. Introduction In this article, we will install PYNQ in Ubuntu 22.04 and then I will show you how to do a simple LED blinking using Python in PYNQ. 2. Installing PYNQ in KV260 The Xilinx/Kria-PYNQ is the main repository for everything related t...
- 13 May 2023
Booting Ubuntu 22.04 in Kria KV260 (or KR260)

rajivbishwokarma

1. Introduction In the previous article, we looked at how we can upgrade the Kria SOM firmware to make it able to boot Ubuntu 22.04 (without the firmware, it can only boot Ubuntu 20.04). In this article, we will build on that and boot the OS. Bo...
- 13 May 2023
Kria (KV260/KR260) firmware update for booting Ubuntu 22.04

rajivbishwokarma

1. Introduction KV260 and KR260 firmware by default cannot boot the Ubuntu 22.04. Therefore, an update to the firmware is necessary. In this article, I will show you how to update the firmware step by step. I have the following setup. Petalinux boot...
- 13 May 2023
Port a VHDL design from AMD Zynq & Pynq to Spartan-7 & MicroBlaze - part 2: software

Jan Cumps

Part 2 of a little double post to document the porting of a small FPGA design from a Zynq with ARM + Linux + Pynq + Python to a smaller Spartan with MicroBlaze soft controller + bare metal. In post 1, I show the Vivado ...
- 11 May 2023
Port a VHDL design from AMD Zynq & Pynq to Spartan-7 & MicroBlaze - part 1: hardware

Jan Cumps

A little double post to document the porting of a small FPGA design from a Zynq with ARM + Linux + Pynq + Python to a smaller Spartan with MicroBlaze soft controller + bare metal. The post focuses on the software / firmware aspec...
- 9 May 2023
Learning AMD Zynq: a project to generate a set of PWM signals. 3 - add GATE signal and demodulation clock

Jan Cumps

Continuation of Learning AMD Zynq: a project to generate a set of PWM signals. 2 - add overall control block, delay and pulse signal . yepe has a goal to create a set of signals for an ultrasone pulse generator. Status after Po...
- 6 May 2023
Learning AMD Zynq: a project to generate a set of PWM signals. 2 - add overall control block, delay and pulse signal

Jan Cumps

Continuation of Learning AMD Zynq: a school project to generate a set of PWM signals. 1 - problem statement and possible approach . yepe has a goal to create a set of signals for an ultrasone pulse generator. Status after Post ...
- 4 May 2023
Learning AMD Zynq: a project to generate a set of PWM signals. 1 - problem statement and possible approach

Jan Cumps

yepe has to resolve this problem for a project assignment: Hi Jan Cumps, I hope you don't mind if I ask a question regarding the PYNQ half-bridge PWM driver. I am working on a student project for school and I need to drive a half-...
- 21 Apr 2023
Vitis-AI 3.0 designs for Ultra96-V2 and ZUBoard

albertabeef

Avnet has just released a series of projects that builds up Vitis-AI 3.0 and ROS2 enabled designs for Ultra96-V2 and ZUBoard. Type Description ZUB1CG Links U96V2 Links Hackster 1 Building the foundational designs https://avnet.me/...
- 16 Apr 2023
How can I choose FPGA?

Former Member

Hi, I am Arun. I am a hardware Engineer with 8years experience in in IoT and RF schematic and pcb design. I am new in FPGA design. How can I start my career in FPGA based design? Kindly advice the initial steps.
- 1 Apr 2023
Fast VHDL CORDIC Sine and Cosine Component on Lattice XP2 Device Using Diamond 3.12

jc2048

Introduction This is still work in progress - I've only reached the simulation phase and haven't tried it on a device yet - but I thought it might be of some interest. Back when I did my 'Making Waves' blogs [1], I implemented a fast, unrolled, pipel...
- 31 Mar 2023