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Clock Domain Crossing (CDC)

Clock Domain Crossing (CDC) Made Simple: Best Practices for Vivado Users

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Managing clock domain crossing (CDC) is one of the most critical — and sometimes confusing — challenges in FPGA design. With modern designs often spanning multiple clock domains, ensuring safe data transfer across these domains is essential to avoiding metastability, timing issues, and unreliable system behavior. In this post, we’ll walk through how to approach … Continued

Achieving Timing Closure with Vivado Intelligent Design Runs

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Vivado Intelligent Design Runs (IDR) are a powerful feature that helps designers achieve timing closure more efficiently. Timing closure is often one of the most persistent and frustrating challenges in FPGA development. For complex designs, especially those targeting UltraScale+ and Versal devices, traditional trial-and-error tuning of implementation strategies can lead to long debug cycles and … Continued
RF Analyzer

Comprehensive Overview of the RF Analyzer in AMD Vivado

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The RF Analyzer in AMD Vivado represents a significant advancement in RF signal processing and analysis, tailored to address the complex requirements of modern communication systems, radar applications, and more. By bridging sophisticated configuration capabilities with user-friendly GUI controls, the tool equips engineers with the precision and flexibility required for optimal ADC (Analog-to-Digital Converter) and … Continued

AMD Versal AI Engine and AI Engine-ML. Which is right for you?

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The AMD Versal architecture introduced a new adaptable compute domain, the AI Engine. The AI Engine is a powerful coprocessor that can be used to implement vectorized algorithms that otherwise would be resource intensive on a traditional FPGA. While the amount of AI Engine tiles varies across the Versal lineup, the AI Engine itself is … Continued

Understanding the AXI Protocol: Applications and Functionality

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The AXI protocol is powerful and easy-to-use for connecting modules within SoCs and FPGAs. Intro to the AXI Protocol AXI (Advanced eXtensible Interface) is an interface for connecting modules within an SoC or an FPGA. It is fully synchronous and can be as wide and as fast as needed to meet transfer requirements between modules. … Continued

Leveraging Vivado QoR Reports to Optimize FPGA Design Performance

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Vivado QoR Reports are powerful tools in the Vivado Integrated Development Environment that help designers enhance the Quality of Results (QoR) for their FPGA designs. These include the DRC Report, the Methodology Report, the Design Analysis Report, the QoR Assessment Report, and the QoR Suggestions Report. The Vivado QoR Reports predict potential improvements that designers … Continued

BLT Secures Navy’s SeaPort-NxG Award: A Milestone in Advancing Defense Capabilities

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On January 2, BLT reached a significant milestone in its 35-year history by being awarded a position on the U.S. Navy’s prestigious SeaPort Next Generation (SeaPort-NxG) contract vehicle. This accomplishment underscores our company’s long-standing dedication to excellence and innovation in the defense sector, while also marking an exciting new chapter in our ability to contribute … Continued

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