Archive for November, 2015

From MCU or DSP to FPGA for Power Electronics: Part 2 Evaluation Boards and Hardware Issues

November 26, 2015 by Hamish Laird

Migration from MCU or DSP to FPGA for Power Electronics Following on from the first part of this post on migration from  MCU or DSP to FPGA for Power Electronics, the question was asked: “…What suggestions do you have to start this migration, both in terms of a cheap evaluation board…” This is a good […]

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Coffee Machine Upgrade – Full Steam Ahead

November 19, 2015 by Hamish Laird

As mentioned in our previous post, sometimes with technology it is often the case that you simply need more power.  And so as we are coffee fans we decided that we needed more coffee power and got 6kW of it with a beautiful new machine.     UPDATE:  The machine is now on its shiny new […]

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JTAG Boundary Scan Testing with AutoBuzz

November 17, 2015 by Tim King

FPGAs have very large numbers of pins.  Ensuring that these are connected and are not shorted to each other requires electrical test vectors and sensing of shorts. Boundary Scan To run up FPGA PCBAs a great solution is boundary scan using a JTAG connection.  This lets you drive or sense, in turn, each and every […]

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Coffee Machine Upgrade

November 16, 2015 by Hamish Laird

Sometimes with technology it is often the case that you simply need more power.  And so as we are coffee fans we decided that we needed more coffee power. So we got a new machine. And we were so keen to check it out that we had it hooked up and heating milk before the table […]

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