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Retrospective on the SDR Makerspace conference

On the 28th and 29th of November, the REDS institute of the HEIG-VD organized its very first international conference at the Swiss Aéropôle of Payerne on the topic of Software Defined Radio, driven by the SDR Makerspace initiative. Needless to say, the conference was overall a success. I have met motivated and enthusiastic attendees, all gathering around the exciting topic of Software Defined Radios. Industrialists, academicians, experts, hobbyists, and even students were present. As I said, the SDR Makerspace initiative…

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A note on using the FPGA-to-SDRAM bus

On Alter-Intel SoCs, there exist a bus connecting directly the FPGA fabric and the SDRAM called FPGA-to-SDRAM. This bus is not shared with any other peripheral and enables high-throughput data transfers between the FPGA and the SDRAM. Typically, you might want to use it for DMA transfers. By default, this bus might not be enabled and prevents anyone from attempting a single transfer on it. If your FPGA design interfaces with this bus, you might need to enable the bus’…

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Using the mSGDMA IP : an introduction

Hardware accelerated computations is a rising trend today. More and more, we are moving towards heterogeneous systems where a CPU and one or more hardware accelerators collaborate together to speedup computationally intensive tasks. FPGAs, with their reconfiguration capabilities, are very good candidates towards hardware acceleration. One very important part in this field is data transfers between a CPU and a hardware accelerator, as they are a critical in such a high performance environment. On FPGAs, though, how does data transfer…

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