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The Trenz TE0802 is Now Available on Our Website!

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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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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FPGAs Just Got Easier

- by Steve Johnson - 4 Comments.

Digilent is introducing an important new product, the Eclypse Z7, featuring a new high-speed I/O expansion scheme compatible with the new SYZYGY standard. The Eclypse Z7 represents just the beginning of a new …

FPGA / From Our President / New Product

Embracing a New Standard

- by Steve Johnson - 30 Comments.

“A promising new FPGA connectivity solution is here.” Steve Johnson, President, Digilent, Inc. For engineers working with FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) for high-speed control, signal processing, or test and measurement applications, a …

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Build a Cheap, Quick (and Powerful!) Video Streaming System

- by David Horn - 2 Comments.

Picture this scenario: you need to develop an embedded vision application – something like an object detection system or real time digital video processing – but you don’t have the …

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Getting Un-Stuck with FPGA

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An FPGA user shares his experience with debugging and gives some tips on how to diagnose and solve issues in FPGA designs.

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What is an FPGA?

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Today we will go over a brief overview on FPGAs!

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New Nexys Video Project on Youtube

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Check out a cool audio project with the Nexys Video!

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What Is The Deal With Cryptocurrency and FPGA?

- by Miranda Hansen - 2 Comments.

You may have heard talk of FPGAs and cryptocurrency being tossed around… but what does it all mean? And more importantly, how does one make money off of it?

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Digilent FPGA Dating Profiles

- by Miranda Hansen - 7 Comments.

Meet our FPGA Bachelors!

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Python Programming with the Arty Z7

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Learn about the power of Python and the Arty Z7!

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Introducing #IHeartFPGA

- by Quinn Sullivan - 1 Comment

There is more to look forward to this month than just Valentine’s day, with our new FPGA appreciation movement!

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A Microcontroller on an FPGA?

- by Brandon Kallaher - 1 Comment

Brandon examines the age old question… can you put a microprocessor on an FPGA?

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A First Time Experience With FPGA

- by James Colvin - 3 Comments.

James takes the plunge into the world of FPGA!

FPGA / New Product / Xilinx

Cmod Lineup Gets Newest Player: CmodA7

- by Larissa Swanland - 3 Comments.

We are excited to announce the newest member of our Cmod Lineup, the CmodA7! The CmodA7 is a development board that was designed around Xilinx’s Artix-7. At only 2.75 inches …

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Setting Up Vivado with the Digilent IP Cores

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Recently, I have been working on a project using the Arty and MicroBlaze. The Arty has four headers for use with the Digilent Pmod line-up. As I don’t have much experience …

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My Embedded Linux Adventure: Zybo GSG and the Zynq Book

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Join Nate as he continues his experiences with the Zybo!

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My Embedded Linux Adventure – Intro

- by Nate Eastland - 8 Comments.

The concept of embedded systems is one that I have found very interesting for a long time. The term is actually a pretty accurate description of the topic itself, the idea being …

Announcement / FPGA / Workshop

2016 Digilent and CNFM Workshop in Paris

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Check out this workshop taking place on March 10!

FPGA / New Product

Arty Says “Hello World” to Adam Taylor

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Learn more about the Arty Board now from Adiuvo’s Adam Taylor!

FPGA / Guide / Xilinx

Licensing Troubleshooting

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Need some help troubleshooting your Xilinx licenses?

FPGA / How-to

Bop-It with a Twist…and an FPGA

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Make your very own game of Bop-It.

FPGA / Guide

Converting from UCF to XDC file

- by Kaitlyn Franz - 2 Comments.

How and why you’d convert UCF files to XDC files.

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The Constraints File, Also Known as Magical Moving Stairs

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A point of confusion for a lot of people new to FPGA design is the constraints file. People are used to just writing code and having it work. However, in FPGA design we have to specify what hardware is being used.

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Structure of an FPGA

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Once upon a time, the readers of the Digilent blog were given a brief history lesson on the field programmable gate array (FPGA), at the end of which you all …