{"id":20473,"date":"2017-05-23T10:02:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=20473"},"modified":"2022-02-03T14:21:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T22:21:25","slug":"adam-taylors-microzed-chronicles-pmods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/adam-taylors-microzed-chronicles-pmods\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Taylor&#8217;s MicroZed Chronicles &#8211; Pmods!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard of Adam Taylor&#8217;s MicroZed Chronicles, it&#8217;s a tutorial-style blog series hosted by the<a href=\"https:\/\/forums.xilinx.com\/t5\/Xcell-Daily-Blog\/bg-p\/Xcell\"> Xcell Daily Blog<\/a> that&#8217;s all about using, you guessed it, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avnet.com\/wps\/portal\/us\/products\/avnet-boards\/avnet-board-families\/microzed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MicroZed board<\/a>! With a staggering 200 posts and counting, the series covers a very wide range of topics and\u00a0now includes a <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.xilinx.com\/t5\/Xcell-Daily-Blog\/Adam-Taylor-s-MicroZed-Chronicles-Part-188-Pmods\/ba-p\/762097\">dedicated post on using Pmods!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-modules\/\">Pmods<\/a> appear frequently throughout the MicroZed Chronicles, Adam decided to dedicate a tutorial solely to illustrating their use. He writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Over the length of this series, we have looked at several different development boards. One thing that is common to many of these boards: they provide one or more Pmod (Peripheral module) connections that allow us to connect small peripherals to our boards. Pmods expand our prototype designs to create final systems. We have not looked in much detail at Pmods but they are an important aspect of many developments. As such, it would be remiss for me not to address them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He goes on to discuss the Digilent Pmod Standard as an open source and very useful standard for expanding the functionality of development boards, pointing to the wide range of Pmods available as one of their useful features.<\/p>\n<p>Another useful feature of Pmods that Adam points to is the support, noting that there is a wide range of existing drivers for use with both PL (programmable logic) and PS (processing system) designs. He writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Digilent\/vivado-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Digilent Vivado library<\/a>\u00a0contains several Pmod drivers and DVI sinks and sources plus other very useful IP blocks that can accelerate our design.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in Adam&#8217;s brief tutorial on how to get Pmods up and running quickly on Zynq-based boards using Digilent&#8217;s Pmod IP cores, see his post <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.xilinx.com\/t5\/Xcell-Daily-Blog\/Adam-Taylor-s-MicroZed-Chronicles-Part-188-Pmods\/ba-p\/762097\">here<\/a>. For a more step by step tutorial on how to start a Zynq or Microblaze design and integrate Pmods, see Digilent&#8217;s tutorial titled <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/reference\/learn\/programmable-logic\/tutorials\/pmod-ips\/start\">Using Pmod IP&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For any questions or comments please use the comment section below or visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.digilent.com\/\">Digilent Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-20473 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='20473' data-nonce='202d78e1e0' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-20473 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-20473 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='20473' data-nonce='202d78e1e0' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-20473 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-20473 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expand your Pmod usage with Adam Taylor&#8217;s informative blog posts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":20475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4491],"class_list":["post-20473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expansion-modules"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/microzed-chronicles.png","authors":[{"term_id":4491,"user_id":26,"is_guest":0,"slug":"talesab","display_name":"Talesa Bleything","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4ebebd593afbf3d758e9127934708634ab09aeaa7fcfcf6151f4e9ceb9cf6d0e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20473"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=20473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}