How You Can Add Buttons to Vivado These step-by-step instructions will add a button to the Vivado application that changes the working directory of the TCL console to the directory …
Editor’s Note – In this series, we will take a behind the scenes look at how an engineer tackles a project from beginning to end. What challenges will come up? …
Editor’s Note – In this series, we will take a behind the scenes look at how an engineer tackles a project from beginning to end. What challenges will come up? …
A Mixed-Signal Oscilloscope, Function Generator, Power Supply, and Digital Multimeter in One Package Earlier this year, we debuted the popular Analog Discovery Pro 3000 Series as a professional upgrade of …
The introduction of the Analog Discovery Pro ADP5250 last month begs the immediate question: How does it “stack up” with the ADP3450? ADP5250’s Sample Rate, Bandwidth, and Resolution One of …
You may have heard about VAXEL ZERO, the FPGA configuration/operation automation solution that runs on Windows PCs. VAXEL ZERO was developed by a group of seasoned RTL design verification engineers …
Constraining Ports in Block Designs In Vivado block designs, there are a couple of different ways to manage the inputs and outputs of your design and which FPGA pin locations they are connected to. …
A Reaction to a Recent Pandemic or An Established Solution to a Long-Standing Issue? If you’re anything like us here at Digilent, a part of you misses being in the …
How to Fix Board Connection Errors in Vivado and EEPROM It can be very frustrating to purchase a new board and run into a road block when testing out your …
What Is the Difference Between UltraScale+ EG and EV? Last year, we unveiled our Genesys ZU UltraScale + MPSoC, playfully dubbed our “kitchen sink board” because it has everything (except for …
Adding More Channels in WaveForms Let’s assume you have an Analog Discovery 2 and love it, but your setup needs more than two oscilloscope channels and the more powerful ADP3450 …
In 2021, we brought forward the idea of Embedded Measurement, the name we gave to describe the current convergence of benchtop instruments with the flexibility and agility of embedded systems …
Editor’s Note – In this series, we will take a behind the scenes look at how an engineer tackles a project from beginning to end. What challenges will come up? …
How to Automate Your Measurements Article originally written by Richard Oed Oscilloscopes are the tool of choice for every engineer when it comes to measurements. If the instrument can also …
The ability to optimize the verification process of embedded systems is helpful for small and medium-sized projects, but it also provides significant benefits to system-on-chip processes at larger OEMs as …
Portable Prototyping If you’re a student enrolled in a course that asks you to use an Analog Discovery 2 to continue projects at home, then this scenario hits home: You …
Getting a Job in FPGA FPGA engineers like solving tough problems and have a passion for using the latest technology to create new products. Here’s some information about the FPGA …
Earlier this year, we learned that VAXEL-EZ was deployed to help a team of engineers who had been developing a powerful new tool that converts C++ models to register-transfer level …
The First Expansion to the Zmod Family In early 2020, Digilent released the Eclypse Z7 development board, which provided two SYZYGY-compatible connection ports. SYZYGY is a relatively new interface standard …
The Logic Analyzer instrument in WaveForms can be used to easily decode Manchester encoding signals. The following guide presents what Manchester encoding is, what are its advantages over unencoded digital …
Though oscilloscopes are most known for viewing and diagnosing analog signals, there are some cases where critical characteristics of digital signals can only be viewed on an oscilloscope. When designing …
Today we will go over a brief overview on FPGAs!
When looking at the oscilloscope feature of a multi-instrument device or when comparing two benchtop oscilloscopes, the first specifications that we look at are the bandwidth and sample rate. While these …
Have you recently acquired a bunch of data and are trying to figure out what to do with it? Using the Analog Discovery Pro 3450‘s (or ADP3250’s, for that matter) …
Raspberry Pi 4 is Adafruit’s popular tiny desktop computer. At only $35, it’s widely considered the standard in the Maker community. Our own Digital Discovery is quite the value as …
