by Adam Taylor | Sep 2, 2025 | Live
One aspect of FPGA design and development I like the most is that it’s always changing. A decade ago, it was about deep RTL expertise, vendor-specific flows, and deterministic, long-term deployments, and our focus was on maximizing performance per watt for...
by Adam Taylor | Sep 2, 2025 | Live
I think everyone would agree that FPGA design is hard work. The combination of hardware, software and systems engineering in one place, at one time, is complex and it takes a lot of time and effort before you have a successful build. Sometimes more time and effort...
by Adam Taylor | Aug 27, 2025 | Live
It’s been fascinating to see how the robotics industry has changed over the last decade. Ten years ago it was stuck in a recurring loop, a typical example being a robotic arm on a car assembly line endlessly spot‑welding the same joint on every chassis that rolled...
by Adam Taylor | Aug 20, 2025 | Live
FPGA engineering is fascinating because everywhere you look there are different challenges to solve. For example, I spend a lot of my time designing FPGA systems for the aerospace sector, thinking about radiation‑tolerant systems that operate in extreme environments...
by Adam Taylor | Jul 25, 2025 | Live
In 1985, a radical idea changed the course of hardware design: making chips reprogrammable. That was when Ross Freeman the co-founder of Xilinx introduced the world’s first commercially viable FPGA, the XC2064. Its 85,000 transistors were arranged in 64 loosely...
