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Co-simulating Verilog and SPICE circuits with QSPICE

If you are an engineer in any field related to electricity, in your degree I am pretty sure that you have simulated many electronic circuits, from linear circuits based on operational amplifiers to power circuits like switched-mode power supplies or DC/AC converters. Simulation is a crucial step ...

Published by P.Trujillo on Sep 29, 2024

Building Linux with Buildroot for the KD240 Kit

If I say Linux and Zynq MPSOC, I am pretty sure that most of you think of Petalinux. Petalinux is the official AMD’s tool that eases the build of a Linux distribution for FPGA and SoCs. What Petalinux gives us is a set of pre-configurations or recipes for Yocto, which is the tool running behind P...

Published by P.Trujillo on Sep 14, 2024

Creating a HDL Coder Support Package for Leonidas board

When we are working in any engineering field, probes of concept are essential in order to check if an idea can become a real product. The time spent in the probe of concept is crucial either to accept that probe of concept as a future product or to discard the idea finally. Unfortunately, FPGA an...

Published by P.Trujillo on Aug 31, 2024

The Gate Array News 2024.

Another season comes to an end, and The Gate Array News is here. This is the second edition of this series os articles, and I think that it would be a very interesting exercise to recover the news of the last TGA News. In 2023 we talked about the announcement of Spartan 7 Ultrascale+. I thought ...

Published by P.Trujillo on Aug 4, 2024

Getting started with the MPFS Discovery Kit

When the MPFS Discovery Kit was released, I thought that this board was what the Icicle Kit was supposed to be. A small board, with enough interfaces, even a MIPI interface for high-speed communications, Ethernet, SD Card, LEDS, Buttons… and the best, USB powered. The PolarFire part used in this ...

Published by P.Trujillo on Jul 21, 2024

FPGA Conference 2024

This week I have been in Munich for the FPGA Conference Europe. This event is based on a set of conferences separated in six different tracks. In addition, there is a showroom where you can find different booths where they show new products and demos. In this article, I am going to tell you what ...

Published by P.Trujillo on Jul 7, 2024

Base acceleration design for Genesys ZU 5EV

In this blog we have used many different boards, many from Digilent but also boards from AMD or Trenz. Now, if you search in internet about acceleration using AMD parts, you will find many articles that use the new Kria SOMs, either the KV260, the KR260 or the newest KD240, but in reality, boards...

Published by P.Trujillo on Jun 24, 2024

Application Notes

[AN001] Designing from zero an IIR filter in Verilog using biquad structure and bilinear discretization.

Filtering is likely the most common DSP algorithm that any embedded engineer has to design, no matter it they are developing for an STM32, or TI DSP or, of course, en FPGA. Filtering is such important because the majority of the applications are connected to the real world, so they need to captur...

[AN002] Running subcycle average models on Speedgoat Performance System.

Materials like Silicon Carbide (SiC) or Gallium Nitride (GaN) are making our power electronics converters faster and faster. This means small inductors and capacitors that make, in most cases, the cost of the devices decrease. This also means that the control devices also have to be faster, and n...