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Avnet MiniZed

MiniZed™ is a single-core Zynq 7Z007S development board. This board targets entry-level Zynq developers with a low-cost prototyping platform.

Portable Thermal Imaging with the MiniZed

“Create a low cost and portable thermal imaging solution for accurately measuring temperature. Introduction I have previously looked at the top end of the low cost thermal imaging solution with the use of the FLIR Lepton coupled to HDMI displays …

Enable Arduino I/O Header on the MiniZed

“Enable the digital I/O available on the Arduino shield header of the MiniZed. While working on another project, I noticed that the hardware design in the BSP for the MiniZed has the pinout of the Arduino GPIO header specified …

7-Segment LED Display Hardware and VHDL Module for MiniZed

“Actual PWM duty cycle on 7-segment LED display, driven by hardware (PL) and controlled by software (PS). This project was created for the MiniZed Motor Control Build Challenge and the final application was built on the Mini But Mighty project …

Tracealyzer for FreeRTOS on Xilinx Zynq

“A guide on how to debug your Embedded FreeRTOS applications running on an Avnet MiniZed board in an operating system aware way. Introduction When writing embedded software applications on top of an operating system it is often difficult to detect …

FPGA Based Binary Clock

“FPGA based binary clock, which uses GPS for the time reference. Introduction Measuring time accurately has through out history presented a number of challenges. It was only with the John Harrison’s design of a reliable clock which could maintain …