Building a SoC with Litex.
There are many cases where we will need a processor inside our FPGA. In my case, soft cores are very useful when I have to implement in the FPGA a manager for an external device using high level interfaces like…
Why FPGA?
This will be the first post of 2022, and I want it to be some different. Time ago I have been thinking write about how I started to use FPGA and also what I expect of them for the future.…
Getting started with Microchip’s FPGA Icicle Kit and PolarFire SoC.
In these rare days when getting a development board with a new FPGA is increasingly difficult, a new board has come into my hands. The board is the Icicle Kit, a Single Board Computer (SBC) from Microchip Technology. It is…
Discovering Gowin FPGA.
Few weeks ago Dialog Semiconductor announced a new series of FPGAs named as ForgeFPGA. The highlight of these new devices are not a high processing power, the highest speed or the big they are, the main highlights of these devices…
Single pole filter without multiplications.
When I am working in a design for an FPGA, which involves the acquisition of any signal, I usually have to design a filter before using that signal in the control loop, or a protection. If the use of this…
Designing a filter on MATLAB and verifying it using FPGA-in-the-loop and Eclypse Z7
If I say “software for engineering”, most of you probably think of MATLAB. I don’t know if there is any field in engineering which does not have a package in MATLAB, and digital signal processing and FPGA design are certainly…
Remote debugging via hardware server.
In my daily life, as with other FPGA developers, I have a laptop where I write the code, and I connect to a remote host to synthesize and implement the FPGA designs. This offers me many advantages. The most important…
Implementing high order filters with FIR Compiler.
Many times, in our designs we find a signal that our interest band of frequency is very close to the band that we need to reject. In this cases, in general, the most efficient way to attenuate the unwanted signal…
FFT algorithm using an FPGA and XDMA.
In this blog we talked (a little) about the xDMA IP from Xilinx, and how to send and receive data through PCI using an FPGA. In that occasion we used the Picozed board with the FMC Carrier gen 2. This…
Controlling a SMPS from MSS with SmartFusion2 SoC.
FPGAs have been present in the telecommunications field for many years, almost since they were created. On the other side, there are fields where FPGAs have not arrived yet for several reasons such as power consumption or price. But there…