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Very few know how Powerful this FPGA combination can be – Here is how to Control it
Greetings inhabitants of the FPGA world! Today’s post is about a project that can be a huge part of a number of other different projects that use FPGA as their core. Be it a claw machine or a drone or a navigator robot, interfacing Joysticks with FPGA will be a fundamental part of many of…
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Flying high with Zynq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFyeFDzbJR4 Open source enthusiast? Drone enthusiast as well? FPGA fan? Rejoice! The first Unmanned Air Vehicule combining all those technologies has recently been announced. It’s powered by a Xilinx Zynq processor running ArduPilot, and its source code is planned to be released. The team behind the project used a DJI F550 airframe and plans to test on…
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Up in the air with ArduPilot
The first successful flight of a drone, or unmanned air vehicle (UAV) running on ArduPilot was recently announced. This UAV is powered by a Zynq, a dual-core ARM with an onboard FPGA. This FPGA makes the difference, leaving alone the first flight of a drone using ArduPilot. Using this FPGA allows the controller to handle…