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From the President: Enabling Digital Transformation

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It seems as if every time we’re approaching the boundaries of technology’s influence on our culture, a new development, trend, or exciting innovation pushes those boundaries even further, launching even …

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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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FPGA Boards / Products

What is a Cmod?

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What’s the story behind Cmods? Here’s a simple explanation of what exactly a “Cmod” is.

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Announcement / Featured / FPGA Boards / Research and Rapid Prototyping

Interested in Software-Defined Radio? We are!

- by William Wadkins - 4 Comments.

Will Wadkins, Digilent’s FPGA Product Manager, discusses how Digilent is beginning to enter the software-defined radio space with the introduction of the USRP B205mini-i.

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

Navigating the Difference Between Pmod, SYZYGY, and FMC

- by David Horn - 1 Comment

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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Featured / FPGA Boards / Projects

Five Projects for Your Arty S7

- by David Horn - 1 Comment

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

- by David Horn - Leave a Comment

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

Sharing the Burden of COVID-19

- by David Horn - Leave a Comment

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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Featured / FPGA Boards / Guide

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

- by David Horn - Leave a Comment

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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Eclypse Z7 with Zmods
Announcement / Expansion Modules / FPGA Boards / From Our President

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 …

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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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Eclypse FPGA for Test using SYZYGY
Announcement / Expansion Modules / Featured / FPGA Boards / From Our President / News / Research and Rapid Prototyping

Embracing a New Standard

- by Steve Johnson - 32 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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Digilent Image Processing Kit
Accessories / Expansion Modules / FPGA Boards / Guide / Uncategorized

White Paper: Creating an Image Processing System

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Our Zybo Z7 is one of the more popular FPGA Developer Boards in our arsenal, and rightfully so – it boasts a variety of peripherals surrounding the Zynq 7000 SoC …

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Academia / FPGA Boards / Guide

Getting Your Lab Up and Running with Vivado

- by David Horn - Leave a Comment

When your fresh-faced recruits are green and bright-eyed in the early days of the academic year, the last thing you’ll want to do is spend extensive amounts of time connecting, …

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Image Processing Kit Embedded
Expansion Modules / FPGA Boards / Guide / Projects

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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FPGA Boards

Getting Un-Stuck with FPGA

- by Miranda Hansen - Leave a Comment

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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FPGA Boards

What is an FPGA?

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Today we will go over a brief overview on FPGAs!

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FPGA Boards

New Nexys Video Project on Youtube

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Check out a cool audio project with the Nexys Video!

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FPGA Boards

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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