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Our ‘Ask Me Anything’ On Reddit – The Highlights!

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We were asked all sorts of questions in our latest “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit. Here are the highlights.

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Expansion Modules / FPGA Boards / Products

The USB104 A7: A New, High-Performance Twist on an Old Favorite

- by David Horn - 3 Comments.

The USB104 A7 is a new addition to the Digilent ecosystem. At first glance it may seem similar to some of our existing FPGA development boards, but the USB104 A7 …

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News / Products

Digilent’s 2020 Holiday Gift Guide

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  If you’re like me, you need to be explicitly told by a number of listicles what a good gift idea might be. Even if it’s something as simple as …

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Announcement / FPGA Boards

Saving Time with VAXEL-EZ

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Digilent is partnering with VAXEL, Inc. to make FPGA design easier.

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Academia / Uncategorized / USB Scopes, Analyzers, and Generators

What to Expect in the 2020 Fall Semester

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COVID-19 has us all out of sorts. The economy. Social life. Our health. Hell, we even ran out of Analog Discovery 2 as a direct result of it. As we …

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NES Controller Using a Digital Discovery to work through a dev board
Projects

Reverse Engineering an NES Controller Using the Digital Discovery and WaveForms

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Some time ago, we had an old NES controller floating around the office. It wasn’t your run-of-the-mill NES controller, though – it had been “tampered” with. Instead of the normal …

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Syzygy standard specification
Expansion Modules / Featured / FPGA Boards / Guide

Navigating the Difference Between Pmod, SYZYGY, and FMC

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For years, hardware engineers with interchangeable I/O needs had two strong choices – our own Pmod, which was developed as an open standard back in 2004, as well as the …

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Genesys ZU system plugged into display
FPGA Boards / Projects

The Genesys ZU Taken On a Road Test

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One lucky user was tasked to see what the Genesys ZU was capable of.

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Accelerating Processing time
Expansion Modules / FPGA Boards / Guide / Projects / Research and Rapid Prototyping / Uncategorized

Custom AXI for IP Acceleration using Petalinux

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Pablo at ControlPaths.com has written a guide for creating a custom AXI IP using the Genesys ZU, but any Zynq MPSoC will do. We’re partial to the Genesys ZU though. …

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Announcement / FPGA Boards

The Trenz TE0802 is Now Available on Our Website!

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Designed and manufactured by our partner, Trenz Electronic, the TE0802 is a development board integrating a Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+. The board features a variety of connectivity interfaces including DisplayPort, VGA, …

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USB Scopes, Analyzers, and Generators

Bridging a USB to a Microcontroller, as Shown by the Analog Discovery 2

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Our friend Yahya, Editor at Atadiat (the Arabic word for hardware), has put together a fine tutorial on serial engine programming. Using the MPSSE (Multi-Protocol Synchronous Serial Engine) from FTDI Chip …

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Featured / FPGA Boards / Projects

Five Projects for Your Arty S7

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The Arty S7, our FPGA development board using the cost efficient Xilinx Spartan 7, gives users plenty of I/O and expansion options to work with. Since its inception in 2018, …

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FPGA Boards / Guide

Creating a Genesys ZU Vitis Acceleration Platform

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Vitis is Xilinx’s unified software platform, replete with open source libraries optimized for Xilinx’s own hardware platforms and pre-built applications. The Genesys ZU is our “kitchen sink” development board boasting …

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Expansion Modules / FPGA Boards / Guide / Projects

Using the xFFT IP to Implement an FFT on the Eclypse Z7

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Pablo from controlpaths.com lent his expertise in Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and applied it to our Eclypse Z7 board (using the SYZYGY Zmod ADC and DAC, and Xilinx’s xFFT IP). …

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Genesys ZU and Digital Discovery
Around Digilent / Featured / FPGA Boards

How Are Digilent’s Engineers Making the Most of Working From Home?

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Engineers across the globe have been forced out of their labs and into their living rooms, asked to continue working on whatever projects they were prior to being self-quarantined. The …

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the Eclypse Z7 hooked up to an Analog Discovery 2 with Zmods
Expansion Modules / FPGA Boards / Guide

Putting the New Eclypse Z7 to WORK

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We are really excited about some new products we released earlier this year: the Eclypse Z7, Zmod ADC 1410, and Zmod DAC 1410. Since we didn’t get a chance to …

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Academia / Teaching and Training / USB Scopes, Analyzers, and Generators

Teaching Remotely (because that’s just the way it is)

- by David Horn - 3 Comments.

If you’re stuck in the unfamiliar situation of attempting to complete the rest of this semester’s EE courses online (rather than in your lab),  read on. We want to make …

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Announcement / News

Mouser Electronics Wins Digilent’s Distributor of the Year Award for 2019!

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MOUSER ELECTRONICS SELECTED AS DIGILENT’S ANNUAL DISTRIBUTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD RECIPIENT FOR 2019  Mouser Electronics and Digilent’s business partnership dates back to 2014, and this is the company’s second time to win the award.  SEATTLE, March 30, 2020 – Digilent, Inc., …

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Academia / Featured / FPGA Boards / News / USB Scopes, Analyzers, and Generators

Sharing the Burden of COVID-19

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No matter where you you reside in the world or what occupation takes you through each day, it seems that there is a common sentiment about the current situation – …

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From Our President / News

Steve Johnson featured on Embedded Executives podcast!

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Steve is the President of Digilent, so we are intrigued. Check it out here (7 minutes): https://www.embedded-computing.com/home-page/embedded-executives-steve-johnson-president-gm-digilent 00 Be the 1st to vote.

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Using Analog Discovery 2 to test MRIs
Academia / Research and Rapid Prototyping / Teaching and Training / USB Scopes, Analyzers, and Generators

Analog Discovery 2 Used in Stanford University Medical Research

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In December of last year, Stanford’s Neerav Dixit, John Pauly, and Grieg Scott published a paper on thermo-acoustic ultrasound (TAUS) for noninvasive temperature monitoring. So why are we excited about …

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Featured / FPGA Boards / Guide

Six Reasons You Should Consider FPGAs Over ASICs or CPU/GPUs 

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Is an FPGA the right tool for you? Dive into six ways that will help you discern if an FPGA is the way to go.

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Analog Discovery Studio
Guide / USB Scopes, Analyzers, and Generators

Using Analog Discovery Studio with MAC OS

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If you’re under the impression  that our Analog Discovery products are only Windows compatible, this post is for you. The Analog Discovery 2, Digital Discovery, and Analog Discovery Studio are …

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Guide / Products

2019 Holiday Gifting Guide

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If you’re not quite sure what to get the special engineer in your life, you’re not alone. According to CareerTrend.com, en electrical engineer must be a problem solver, analytical, detail-oriented, …

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Accessories / Expansion Modules / FPGA Boards / Projects / Uncategorized

Handwritten Digit Recognition Using Artificial Intelligence on a Low-Cost FPGA Board

- by David Horn - 2 Comments.

In the world of artificial intelligence (AI), the recognition of handwritten digits proves that you got your neurons right and in working condition. This application of AI is already quite …

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