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New Horizons Welcome to my blog My name is Sven Andersson and I work as a consultant in embedded system design, implemented in ASIC and FPGA. In my spare time I write this blog and I hope it will inspire others to learn more about this fantastic field. I live in Stockholm Sweden and have my own company Contact You are welcome to contact me and ask questions or make comments about my blog. Content New Horizons What’s new Starting a blog Writing a blog Using an RSS reader Zynq Design From Scratch Started February 2014 1 Introduction Changes and updates 2 Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC 3 ZedBoard and other boards 4 Computer platform and VirtualBox 5 Installing Ubuntu 6 Fixing Ubuntu 7 Installing Vivado 8 Starting Vivado 9 Using Vivado 10 Lab 1. Create a Zynq project 11 Lab 1. Build a hardware platform 12 Lab 1. Create a software application 13 Lab 1. Connect to ZedBoard 14 Lab 1. Run a software application 15 Lab 1. Benchmarking ARM Cortex-A9 16 Lab 2. Adding a GPIO peripheral 17 Lab 2. Create a custom HDL module 18 Lab 2. Connect package pins and implement 19 Lab 2. Create a software application and configure the PL 20 Lab 2. Debugging a software application 21 Running Linux from SD card 22 Installing PetaLinux 23 Booting PetaLinux 24 Connect to ZedBoad via ethernet 25 Rebuilding the PetaLinux kernel image 26 Running a DHCP server on the host 27 Running a TFTP server on the host 28 PetaLinux boot via U-boot 29 PetaLinux application development 30 Fixing the host computer 31 Running NFS servers 32 VirtualBox seamless mode 33 Mounting guest file system using sshfs 34 PetaLinux. Setting up a web server 35 PetaLinux. Using cgi scripts 36 PetaLinux. Web enabled application 37 Convert from VirtualBox to VMware 38 Running Linaro Ubuntu on ZedBoard 39 Running Android on ZedBoard 40 Lab2. Booting from SD card and SPI flash 41 Lab2. PetaLinux board bringup 42 Lab2. Writing userspace IO device driver 43 Lab2. Hardware debugging 44 MicroZed quick start 45 Installing Vivado 2014.1 46 Lab3. Adding push buttons to our Zynq system 47 Lab3. Adding an interrupt service routine 48 Installing Ubuntu 14.04 49 Installing Vivado and Petalinux 2014.2 50 Using Vivado 2014.2 51 Upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04 52 Using Petalinux 2014.2 53 Booting from SD card and SPI flash 54 Booting Petalinux 2014.2 from SD card 55 Booting Petalinux 2014.2 from SPI flash 56 Installing Vivado 2014.3 Chipotle Verification System Introduction EE Times Retrospective Series It all started more than 40 years ago My first job as an electrical engineer The Memory (R)evolution The Microprocessor (R)evolution Four soft-core processors Started January 2012 Introduction Table of contents Leon3 MicroBlaze OpenRISC 1200 Nios II Using the Spartan-6 LX9 MicroBoard Started August 2011 Introduction Table of contents Problems, fixes and solutions FPGA Design From Scratch Started December 2006 Introduction Table of contents Index Acronyms and abbreviations Actel FPGA design Designing with an Actel FPGA. Part 1 Designing with an Actel FPGA. Part 2 Designing with an Actel FPGA. Part 3 Designing with an Actel FPGA. Part 4 Designing with an Actel FPGA. Part 5 CAD A hardware designer’s best friend Zoo Design Platform Linux Installing Cobra Command Tool A processor benchmark Mac Porting a Unix program to Mac OS X Fixing a HyperTerminal in Mac OS X A dream come true Bicycling Stockholm by bike Running The New York City Marathon Skiing/Skating Kittelfjall Lappland Tour skating in Sweden and around the world Top Introduction SSSK Wild skating Tour day Safety equipment A look at the equipment you need Skate maintenance Links Books, photos, films and videos Weather forecasts Travel 38000 feet above see level A trip to Spain Florida the sunshine state Photo Albums Seaside Florida Ronda Spain Sevilla Spain Cordoba Spain Alhambra Spain Kittelfjäll Lapland Landsort Art Walk Skating on thin ice Books 100 Power Tips for FPGA Designers Favorites Adventures in ASIC ChipHit Computer History Museum DeepChip Design & Reuse Dilbert d9 Tech Blog EDA Cafe EDA DesignLine Eli’s tech Blog Embedded.com EmbeddedRelated.com FPGA Arcade FPGA Blog FPGA Central FPGA CPU News FPGA developer FPGA Journal FPGA World Lesley Shannon Courses Mac 2 Ubuntu Programmable Logic DesignLine OpenCores Simplehelp SOCcentral World of ASIC Contact Me If you want to be updated on this weblog Enter your email here: Friday, October 17, 2014 What’s New 2014-10-08 Thank you all my readers. During the last 8 months you have visited my blog 49 000 times and looked at 150 000 pages . 2014-10-07 Adam Taylor is celebrating the first year anniversary of his Xcell Daily blog 2014-08-20 Restarting my blog 2014-07-18 Vacation time. No access to ZedBoard 2014-05-20 As you can see to the left, there is an advertisement added to my blog. Please contact me if your company would like to place an ad at the same place. 2014-05-18 I am going social. Share buttons have been added to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google social networking sites. 2014-05-06 Clive Maxfield at EE Times writes about my blog once more. 2014-03-15 The Zynq blog has been added to the Xilinx Wiki . 2014-03-13 A link to my Zynq blog has been added in ZedBoard.org 2014-03-11 I have written an article for EE Times about my Zynq blog 2014-02-18 Xilinx writes about my Zynq blog 2014-02-10 ElektronikTidningen writes about my Zynq blog (in Swedish) 2014-02-06 Starting a new blog called " Zynq Design From Scratch " 2014-01-14 Updated wildskating.com Posted at 07:26 by Comments (2) Permalink Thursday, October 16, 2014 Zynq design from scratch. Part 1. Introduction Almost a year ago I received a parcel by post from US. When I opened the parcel I found this box. The ZedBoard was a present from someone involved in promoting the new Zynq device from Xilinx , but with no strings attached. At that time I was busy working as an ASIC designer and had no time to play with the board. It wasn’t until December in 2013 that I had a chance to unpack the box and power-up the ZedBoard. At that time I got an email from Per and Andreas at Silica ( Avnet ) here in Stockholm, where they offered a one day hands-on training class on the Zynq-7000 using the ZedBoard, part of the " Xilinx Speedway Design Workshops ". Here is what this workshop covered: Introduction to the Zynq-7000 in Vivado AP SoC "This class demonstrates the techniques and tools used to create a basic Zynq-7000 AP SoC design. Through a series of instructor presentations and hands-on labs, hardware and firmware developers will learn the required steps for creating a complete Zynq-7000 AP SoC design on ZedBoard. The Zynq-7000 AP SoC architecture is explained, including the ARM® Cortex™-A9 processing system (PS) and the 7 series programmable logic (PL). The course also details the individual components that comprise the PS such as I/O peripherals, clocking, interrupt, AXI interfaces and memory controllers. Emphasis will be placed on efficient PL-to-PS interfacing including processing interrupts generated from a PL peripheral. To complete the design flow, the critical steps of hardware and software debugging techniques will be shown". This training session was the head start I needed. I went home and started to play with my ZedBoard. At the same time a decided to write this blog and here we are. All of you who have read my " FPGA design from scratch " blog will feel at home. I will follow the same idea and describe the whole design flow in an easy to understand fashion. Reading instruction Blog entries should be read from 1 onwards in numerical order to get the full story. At the end of every blog entry there are three links called: Top Previous Next Top takes us to the top of the current blog entry. Previous takes us to the previous entry Next takes us to the next entry Table of content In the left sidebar there is a clickable TOC where you can access all blog entries: Learning by doing Aristotle once said, "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by...