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  • Get Ready to Bop It! With FPGA

    Hello FPGA enthusiasts! Today we have a close enough version of the popular Bop It! Game. For those unfamiliar with what a Bop It! Game is, I will tell you that it is practically a quick reflex based game that has a set of voice commands that give you instructions to perform tasks with the…

  • How To Implement The Old Oberon System On A Modern FPGA

    In today´s article we bring you an experiment carried out by Niklaus Wirth, a master of the Computer Science World. But this article goes beyond itself. It is much more than that because it is the introduction chapter for a thorough guide on how to implement the Oberon system, developed in the late 80´s on…

  • 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…

  • Up in the air with ArduPilot

    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…

  • SparkFun Lunch and Learn: FPGAs for Makers, with Steve Grace

    Steve Grace, a Xilinx Engineer, gives a nice presentation at SparkFun on FPGA’s. While this presentation is not geared for beginners it does an amazing job of introducing all of the tools and techniques available with FPGA’s once you get to the intermediate level. Steve also does a very nice job of showing how your…

  • Welcome to the online home of The Zynq Book

    Curious about the Xilinx ZYNQ processor – an FPGA core coupled with two ARM hard processors? Take a look at this free eBook released by Xilinx to learn more! The Zynq Book is the first book about Zynq to be written in the English language. It has been produced by a team of authors from…

  • Fun with PCI Express – Xilinx Wizard

    Xilinx provides a free PCI Express core “EndPoint Block Plus” and free Wizard to Configure it  with their free version of Xilinx-ISE WebPack. So Open Xilinx Core Generator and select End Point Plus Presently core is inactive, we need to  make it active first , On Menu Select File -> New Project to create project and…

  • Clever Exploitation Of Vivado HLS To Make A FIR Filter And More

    By way of Colin O’Flynn over at NewAE, we’ve got a wonderful video showing how to basically exploit the Xilinx HLS (High-Level Synthesis) in Vivado to make your own FIR filter in only about 25 minutes! I could attempt to write a synopsis of what is covered in the video, but as they say –…