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I have said this many times, but once more is needed: what makes FPGA-based SoCs really powerful is not the processor, and not the fabric, it is how fast and how easily data moves between them.

We are living in the AI era, this is true and everybody knows it, but today we are living through another revolution in the world of processor design: the rise of RISC-V processors and also soft-cores.

AI has changed the way we work.

In the previous article we booted Linux on the Agilex 3 HPS and added a custom Avalon-MM peripheral, avalon_matrix_mult, to the fabric of the Golden System Reference Design.

Another season starts!

It’s August again, and another season at controlpaths comes to an end.

If you didn’t notice, AI is here, and although it is not taking your job for now, it can make it easiest.

A few weeks ago, Adiuvo Engineering and Training released the Forgix board, a (very) small Teensy 4.0 form-factor board that pairs an Efinix Trion T8 FPGA with a Raspberry Pi RP2354.

The red Pitaya STEMlab 125-14 PRO Gen 2 slogan was “The swiss army knife for engineers”, and it is very true.

In my daily work, y I often need to implement digital filters on FPGAs, and since I usually work with 7 Series FPGA, all my filters are designed using fixed-point arithmetic.

One of the missions of an engineer, is selects the device that fits better for a project.

This week I have been busy working on my talk in the next FPGA Developer’s Forum, which will be focused on the AMD Versal architecture and the iWave Global iG-G57D.

I have been using Zynq7000 and Zynq MPSOC devices for years, but I had not had the chance to work with AMD’s latest adaptive platform, Versal ACAP, until now.

I have been working with Xilinx (now AMD) FPGAs for years, so when the Agilex 3 FPGA and SoC C-Series Development Kit landed on my desk I knew the transition would involve some hard changes.