Running a physical model on a Speedgoat.

I have said in some posts that you can do everything with an FPGA, and although that affirmation is false, an FPGA cannot do an omelet for example, you can indeed do many things with an FPGA. Because of their parallel nature, and speed, FPGA are widely used to implement complex control algorithms...

Published by P.Trujillo on Feb 13, 2023

Adding a MicroBlaze coprocessor to an edge computer.

In the industry, we can find many different applications, and most of them, especially in recent years, these applications require some kind of computing. Acquiring data on where the application is, and processing the data later in any other location, maybe an office or any kind of data center is...

Published by P.Trujillo on Jan 30, 2023

Getting started with Speedgoat.

On this blog we have seen many projects where we have used FPGA, in general using development boards, unfortunately, there are not many cases where I can show you an FPGA in a real application, but this is one of these cases. The device I am talking about is a Real-Time Target Machine from Speedg...

Published by P.Trujillo on Jan 16, 2023

The FPGA invasion

Let’s come back 20 years ago. FPGA are mystical devices used in exotic applications. They came from programmable PAL memories that could be used to execute simple logic operations, and not only simple but the amount of logic that they could execute was also very low. These simple devices were evo...

Published by P.Trujillo on Jan 2, 2023

Using the Python API for USRP SDR devices.

On my job, I use python almost every day to develop auxiliary scripts for executing tests, automate some CICD flows or control equipment to emulate hardware. I have to say that I am very comfortable with Python because, for my use level, the language is very simple and almost all the functions I ...

Published by P.Trujillo on Dec 19, 2022

Implementing QAM16 on FPGA.

When we talk about SDR, in general, we think of closed devices that are connected to the computer and, using some kind of software, proprietary or open source, can acquire and, most important, decode the radio signals. Sometimes the decoding process is executed in the computer with tools like GNU...

Published by P.Trujillo on Dec 5, 2022

Implementing FPGA designs in the cloud

If you are working with FPGA, maybe you use different environments to write your code and implement your design or perform continuous integration (CI/CD). In my case, in my job, I use a Windows PC to write the code and document it, and a remote machine with Linux to implement my design and execut...

Published by P.Trujillo on Nov 21, 2022