Adam Taylor @ATaylorFPGA Twitter profile

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Adam Taylor

1 year

How about a FPGA community? This could be interesting to share knowledge / learning and help each other. I just created one, link below!

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8 days

@RobNoLastName This is what the people who have never run businesses or created value before do not understand. All they are doing is killing demand to take risks and create. Which will mean lower tax receipts, they are acting like radical students who never grew up.

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@clairebubblepop This is going to put more pressure on state schools not less. What's harsh but true is it is the parents responsibility to feed their children not schools or government or mine.

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@afneil Do you not think you played a part in this, only a few years ago you wanted to punish people who did not want to take the covid vax. You and the rest of the media are just as guilty as the establishment, you became entwined with it, failed to question or hold to account.

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@JamesLucasIT People still build wonders, they are different scale which enable us to communicate across the world instantly, fly planes, even leave the planet

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7 months

There are a lot of FPGA books about. This one is, one of the few which looks at the advanced aspects of it all. Especially when it comes to things like architecting which is always a challenge

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8 months

Over Christmas I have been thinking about writing another book. This time much more focused on FPGA design, and will be print on demand to keep the price down. The idea I have is How to design an FPGA. This book is not a book that is going to teach you detailed FPGA

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1 year

@HelenBevan I would quit on the spot.

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3 months

@rhiannonev About 4k per term at my kids private school. Much better than state education. Many people with salaries 40 to 60k can afford it and do.

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Adam Taylor

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9 months

Still using the same calculator which got my through my degree last century (1995 I started my degree)

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14 days

@zarahsultana The rich are taxed, the problem is government spending. You have the money to help the poorest you waste it on overseas aid, net zero, dodgy wars etc.

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1 year

Not everything we do is FPGA, we also do flight software. This dev board has an Arm Cortex M7 which runs at 100MHz. It provides SpaceWire, Ethernet, CAN, 1553 and of course SPI, I2C etc making it ideal for many applications. Several of our missions this last year contained these

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11 months

@afneil @theradgeygadgey You dropped the ball on covid, much worse no questioning, suggesting people exercising sensible caution be cast out of society. Makes you wonder really how good you (the media) actually are.

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6 months

From the first to the latest it has been a great journey. Just sat down to start on the next. The FPGA Architecture book! #fpga

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4 months

One of the many use cases for FPGAs is signal processing and working with high speed ADC and DACs. This weeks blog is a long one looking at the combining the ZU 1CG board, Zmod Arbitrary Waveform Generator, and PYNQ to create a project which we can use to generate waveforms.

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Adam Taylor

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8 months

FPGA and SOC are great for applications where real time control and precision are needed, Motor Control being one. Motor Control has a wide range of applications from robotics, and industrial machinery to aviation, defence and medical applications. I recently wrote a eBook on

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7 months

@FP_Champagne If you knew anything about technology you would know the flipper and others are just simple ARM processors with basic sensors attached. Nothing ground breaking this will not stop a thing but makes it look like your doing something. The trick of politicians everywhere and it is

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@ATaylorFPGA

15 days

@nulasuchet Top 10% pay 60% of all taxes. They pay more than their fair share. Do you ? The country will thrive when people stop expecting government to address every issue and people stop expecting gov to pay for them or their bad decisions.

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Adam Taylor

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1 year

Just committed the third batch of these, never thought it would be so popular

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Adam Taylor

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2 months

@BladeoftheS It's what happens when you make UK uncompetitive with taxes and regulations.

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2 months

@scottiebateman Ahhh Americans / Europeans, look at how the Japanese evacuated the A350 accident earlier this year. It is why I keep my passport, wallet and phone in my pockets when flying.

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2 months

@AS332L Sadly it is a reflection on our society where someone must be to blame. It sounds like a utterly tragic accident.

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6 months

@Telegraph No it's a national embrassement. No other country has turned it's health service into a religion. Most have better outcomes as well.

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6 months

@PositivFuturist What people are missing is 100k allows you to have a life which most of our parents generation had on 1/3 that and they were not killing themselves with stress either to get to that level. Oh and they had paid of houses and pensions remember those.

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@ATaylorFPGA

9 months

@jeffreyatucker @FineTunedOrange The age of Kings and politicians is over

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4 months

Sat in a hotel room, writing FPGA code. I think over the years I have written a significant amount of VHDL and blogs in hotel rooms. Mind my book on designing embedded systems book was written mostly on planes.

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Adam Taylor

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3 months

Why can we no longer own software? A few years ago I bought an @altium Perpetual license, this makes sense for a small company to ensure we do not lose capabilities if there is a bad year etc. This morning I receive an email saying Altium will stop supporting perpetual licenses

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3 months

@EssexPR It is keeping people down not lifting them up. It is pure ideological hatred of people trying to improve themselves or children's opportunities. But that's the left they drag down not lift up.

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5 months

@MAstronomers "Be quite they will hear you!"

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3 months

@KemiBadenoch No your policy claims the state owns people and can make them serve at great impact to their opportunities and future. People said you were a possible future leader they are wrong if you cannot grasp compulsion is wrong. You deserve zero seats.

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1 year

@LibDemPatrick You are lying there are no mask announcements at airports.

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@Anna_Soubry Actually Anna politicians like you did with your sanctimonious approach to people as you made decisions which made them poorer and thier lives harder. While telling them ir was for thier own good. No surprise people voted for Brexit and none that Reform are doing well if you have

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2 months

Embedded Linux plays an important part in our AMD SoC developments. Over the years I have created several blogs, projects and tutorials which can be of great use to get started when developing embedded Linux solutions such as. Creating a Linux VM

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9 months

@ElanderNews The state wants you helpless and dependent on them

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

1 year

@Mark_J_Harper Change the law then you are in power. But reality is you want this but are happy to pretend you do not.

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

11 months

A little look at something we are working on Spartan 7 based dev board with a RPi 2040. To be supported by a 100 days of embedded system development course. All open source and free. Boards should be in soon, now to write the embedded system course its based on it.

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

5 months

@Mike_Fabricant There is gaslighting then there is this.

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

7 months

I often get asked where people should get started with FPGAs what tools do they need boards and books do I recommend etc. Over the years I have written a few getting started blogs to help people on this amazing journey. The four blogs below are what I would call my getting

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

10 months

A little weekend reading

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

1 year

What better way to celebrate your birthday than with a little VHDL this morning. The pleasure of just sitting and writing code at times is fantastic

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@ATaylorFPGA

1 year

FPGA design is in my soul, its been 9 years of running my own company which is trusted across the world by clients large and small and 10 years of the blog. To celebrate we had a video made about Adiuvo, its capabilities and projects.

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

4 months

@MPIainDS @Conservatives @andy4wm You are done mate, lockdowns, restrictions, lies, high taxes. You have not done a single conservative thing in 14 years in office. The state has grown and so to have the politicians bank accounts.

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@ATaylorFPGA

4 months

@EdwardJDavey This is not a win, it is a damming indictment of the quality of government and public sector. 10 years for steps is ridiculous.

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@ATaylorFPGA

10 months

Sunday are for simulation!

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

1 month

So far, so good, powers up, rails look good, oscillator looks perfect, FPGA present over JTAG.

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

5 months

looking forward to reading this

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

3 months

@GuidoFawkes What her adult son does is, his and his wife's business nothing to do with Angela. Hardly relevant.

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1 year

@_PaulMcGowan @WestYorksPolice What worries me is none of them stopped and thought hang on a second.

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

1 year

@SimonClarkeMP Let's not forgot Thurrock who controls that

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

2 years

Great books get better with time, I got the 2nd edition in 2006/2007. Just bought the 4th edition for the company Library.

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

1 year

Reading @Hacksterio news can be expensive! I saw an article on the google Coral Micro Dev board. It has Cortex M7 and M4 processors and an edge TPU, all running off FreeRTOS.

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@ATaylorFPGA

5 months

@OneNationCons @Daily_Express @DamianGreen You do not get it do you. You are not entitled to our vote. The last 14 years have been an utter waste you are largely over promoted middle managers. You have locked us in our homes, destroyed the economy, raised taxes, pandered to the left at every turn. You have turned the UK

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

4 months

@matthewdmarsden Do not forget the police who showed they will follow any order.

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@ATaylorFPGA

8 days

@RupertLowe10 If you have paid NI and NHS fails to address your issue within one month. They should be liable for paying the costs of private medical care. Costs should be reclaimed from their registered GPs and local hospital.

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@ATaylorFPGA

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Learning FPGA design? This week I am outlining five projects / skills which you should consider learning once you have the basics of your chosen language. #fpga #embeddedsystems #engineering #electronics #embeddedsoftware

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

11 months

When you start a complex FPGA build on your Linux Machine. #FPGA

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@ATaylorFPGA

9 months

@Telegraph How dare you try to make it look like you questioned the insanity. You went along with it as well you even sacked Bob's cartoon.

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@ATaylorFPGA

9 months

@Lorbobo1 Imagine working hard, taking risks, not seeing your family to provide for them. Then someone demands even more of your hard work. No one begrudges paying some taxes but there is a point it becomes a piss take.

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

2 years

Is there anything more fun than board bring up, commissioning and creating the initial demonstration applications.

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

8 months

Very impressed with the tool chain for the @colognechip GateMate FPGA it integrates very nicely with VSCode

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

2 years

Next year we will be marketing the lattice space development board we designed this year. I am struggling for a name for the board any suggestions ? If I select the name I will send you free one of the production boards plus some other swag and cool things. #fpga

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

1 year

One common question on forums, twitter and r/FPGA is how to go about setting up on your own as a freelancer or consultant. Often the questions relate to years of experience necessary or how to get clients. However, there is much more to consider when setting up on your own if

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@ATaylorFPGA

1 year

Model based engineering is becoming increasingly critical for FPGA design. Over the last year I have invested heavily in this capability and we have seen significant results when using it.

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@ATaylorFPGA

1 year

Doing Math in FPGA can be a challenge if you are not familiar how to work with fixed point. My latest @Hacksterio project show how we can use fixed-point math to implement simple and complex algorithms #fpga

Doing Math in FPGA

FPGA are great for implementing Math, lets look at how we can do simple and complex Math in FPGA.

www.hackster.io

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

2 years

Not everything we are do is FPGA, we also design boards. This one will be going to the moon eventually if you are attending SEFUW next week come chat with us

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

4 months

@TiceRichard Times like this you must regret supporting the care worker mandates which cost many their jobs. Imagine wanting bodily autonomy. We all knew it did not stop either very early on it was oddly those in power or connected to power who some how did not.

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

10 months

A few boards on my desk from this week

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

6 months

@NadineDorries Boris is not even his name.

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

15 days

Fridays are for demos! Inspired by @splinedrive , I decided to re-do the dino game. This time no image processing, just plain simple LDR, Resistor, XADC and 20 lines of VHDL. #fpga #engineering #electronics #embeddedsystems

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

9 months

@tvprp There is a 0 missing from that sentence, should have been 20 years

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

6 years

Using @XilinxInc devices for 1) AWS F1 2) Machine Learning 3) Image Processing - Parallel, MIPI, HDMI 4) Image Processing with HLS 5) IoT Frameworks 6) Robotics 7) Signal Analysis 8) SDSOC Acceleration 9) PetaLinux Check out my projects on @Hacksterio

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

2 years

Want to learn how to implement FIR filters in FPGAs? My latest @Hacksterio project show exactly how to do this using the @DigilentInc Eclypse Z7 and Zmods.

Introduction to Digital Filters using FPGA

How to sample with High Speed ADC and DAC in FPGA and perform signal processing on the received signal

www.hackster.io

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

1 year

GateMate and Cologne Chip There are a range of boutique companies developing FPGAs aimed at addressing low to medium-density devices. Cologne Chip is a German company which traces its roots back to 1994 when its predecessor was established to create ISDN ASICs. Nearly 30 years

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

2 years

Last blog of 2022, and a little different one. Looking at how we use the @Raspberry_Pi Pico RP2040 to test our FPGA designs for space missions.

Using RPI Pico for System & FPGA Integration

Several times in recent blogs and posts on LinkedIn and Twitter I have mentioned that at Adiuvo we use a lot of RPI Pico’s for hardware testing and integration. We even also designed one in to the...

www.adiuvoengineering.com

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

2 years

Little bit of fun with a small Spartan 7 FPGA and a 12v motor with gear box.

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

8 months

FPGA goals for us this week. Get the four S7 boards below connected and sharing data using a high rel (ish) dual ring network. Along with getting a test image shared from one the Arty's to the PYNQ Z1. All prototyping for a new space mission!

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

10 months

This week I am showing how to create a Vivado board definition for a custom board. Based around the Spartan 7 we are creating.

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

3 months

Here is something much happier a MicroBlaze Risc-V Building

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

4 months

Sometimes it is fun to create the FPGA Board as well a program it. Working on a Hackster project at the moment which will turn into real hardware over the summer!

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@ATaylorFPGA

1 year

Prototyping for a Space Imager, Polar Fire (developed using model based eng). Coupled with a SAM71RH processor. The processor access the internal AXI network over SPI allowing it to configure all the processing chain. You can even see the little RP2040, implementing SpaceWire.

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@ATaylorFPGA

1 year

Musing on FPGA development approach In my writing I, often talk about detailed design features or aspects of FPGA or heterogeneous SoC design. This allows us to learn about different capabilities, techniques, and approaches we can use when creating and deploying our solutions.

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Adam Taylor

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1 year

A Sneak peek at the @DigilentInc Analog Discovery 3! Over the years working as both a FPGA developer and author of this blog, I have found it very useful to have a range of test equipment. This is very helpful for debugging board issues and during FPGA bring up. The test

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

2 years

I am going to do some FPGA based motor control projects this year. Starting out with this first one which looks at the basics from a simple FPGA and softcore. #fpga #electronics

FPGA Based Motor Control

FPGA are ideal for precision motor control, in this project we are going to create a simple motor control application which we can build on.

www.hackster.io

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

3 months

@LiamFox The issue is we wanted a conservative government and we got the "conservative" party. The only thing you have grown is the state, its intrusion and taxes. 14 years of failures.

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

9 months

@nickkeca Indeed taxation is theft.

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

2 months

You can do some amazing things with FPGAs, such as create a analogue output signal using just a IO pin and RC filter. I have been experimenting with this recently. This project inspired by a comment Tryggve at AMD a few weeks ago looks at the differences between using a PWM and

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@ATaylorFPGA

2 months

One of the things I have been working on is a AMD Spartan 7 FPGA Stamp . I just sent the design out for manufacture. I think this could be great for adding in FPGA where people do not want to do work with the BGA. I wrote up the design and requirements of the stamp as a

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@ATaylorFPGA

1 year

@LuceJ1983 @TheFreds @piersmorgan The most amazing thing about the last few years. You find who has the heart of a lion and will stand up for freedom and who has not back bone and will follow the narrative. The Fred's have been amazing, Piers a propagandist.

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Adam Taylor

@ATaylorFPGA

10 months

Vitis goes to VSCode in release 2023.2 My project walk through just posted. This is a must read! #fpga #embeddedsoftware

MicroZed Chronicles: Introducing Vitis Unified IDE

If you’ve been working with Vitis 2023.1, you’ll already be aware that a new Vitis Unified Integrated Design Environment (IDE) was scheduled for released with the next version of Vitis. Vitis 2023.2...

www.adiuvoengineering.com

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@ATaylorFPGA

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MicroZed Chronicles: Five of My Most Interesting FPGA Developments! Over the years I have talked a lot about how to use FPGAs and SoCs and I’ve even shared tips and advice for how to start your own company. As someone who has done a lot of FPGA designs, however, I’ve never

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@ATaylorFPGA

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@yumahey @AGIHouseSF That looks the most unproductive environment going.

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1 year

@guyverhofstadt Nato halted this the EU/EC could not even address or stop the attoricires in Bosnia

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@terrychristian Do the left know anything but hypocrisy. Did you not go to St Bede's College which is a private school. Now say that about those on welfare when they demand more benefits and complain about the cost of living?

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@ATaylorFPGA

3 months

It's midnight leaving the lab after a long day. It's always the reset lol

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@ATaylorFPGA

8 months

@RishiSunak If you were doing that you would drop net zero, focus on energy independence, invest in manufacturing and UK business. Reduce the size of the state and stop meddling in countries affairs across the world. I would say you are making our children and their children's children's

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@ATaylorFPGA

2 months

One of the most important aspects of working as a FPGA engineer is being able to work with source control such as Git. Without source control it is hard to track what went into which build, something I see from clients more often that I would think (some of whom are surprisingly

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@ATaylorFPGA

5 months

@campbellclaret Pretty much every politician has done things worth of jail along with their staff. Take for example a PM and his chief advisor make a claim about WMDs to start a war which killed hundreds of their own forces and millions of people in country invaded. Surely that would be worthy

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25 days

This week we are looking at creating a RISC-V Controlled image processing system on a AMD Kintex 7 FPGA. #fpga #embeddedsystems #engineering #electronics #embeddedsoftware

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@ATaylorFPGA

1 month

Nothing better than building PetaLinux for a new board in a morning!

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I get a lot of people asking me questions in messages, emails, reddit FGPA etc. If I can I always try and help though sometimes things slip past me (Sorry if yours got missed). A few days ago one of these made me laugh, and realise the impact / reputation I have sometimes.

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