Why this blog !

Hi !

I'm a French FPGA/SOC designer, I've had the opportunity to develop many FPGA designs (Mostly on Xilinx devices) in various application domains for 20 years now !

I've done tons of VHDL design, but these last years I made several projects based on SOCs (Microblaze, ZYNQ, NIOS), and I thought to myself, it is sooooo powerful !!!

The conclusion was clear :

That's what I want to do now !!

So, after some practice on several projects I'm now able to design SOCs, create librairies of custom IPs, bare metal drivers and simple bare metal application writing. That's a good start !

But my goal would be to be able to design a full embedded Linux system, from FPGA design to software application writing, all based on a evaluation board.

Ok, fine, but the main problem to achieve this is to get the associated knowledge !

I'm working in a company and for customers doing electronics, but none of them will give me the opportunity to learn how to design a Linux embedded design.......

Well, no problem, the remaining solution is:

I will learn all this by myself !

So, I started to get overall information about Linux , device driver writing, Xilinx Tools like PetaLinux and after a while, it appeared that it was going to be a huuugh amount of complex work !!

Especially when you consider that I'm new to Linux and blogger !

So, to get things done step by step, the best solution would be to write it down in small dedicated sections. It would let me find specific information quickly, in an ordered way, easy to complement, and shared. Well, a blog is indeed made for that !!

To give life to this I needed a concrete application to work on.

Well, I started thinking. Ok, I've got an AVNET MiniZed board, I always thought video stuffs are pretty cool and I've done a lot of them. Moreover, some time ago I started a video IP library for Zynq that  I wanted very lite, but I didn't finish it..... So, that's it, I will dedicate this blog to achieve a video design running on my MiniZed board that I will call:

My Tiny Video Lib for FPGA ! 

Ok, Let's start this !

I wanted to do this blog in English to enable more people to have access to it.
As it is not my native language I'll do my best, but if I make English mistakes feel free to correct me !