Category Archive for : ‘FPGA’

Announcement
The new release of MuseBox (2.0, aka “CLIO”) has a huge amount of machine learning tasks (both audio and video) with the new implementation of a no-code graphic interface. In particular, this graphic interface allows you to compose your machine learning pipeline without any expertise in Vitis, Vivado, and software in general. Just open and use your browser and your imagination!

The new release allows you to execute live the entire machine learning pipeline without any interaction with the backend software. In particular, you don’t need to restart any process on

INTRODUCTION

This is the fourth article of a series, which aim is a feasibility study for a modular system for biopsy. In this article, we will focus on the common transformations for motor control: Clark and Park. This system is composed of the main control board based on Xilinx ZYNQ Ultrascale+ and servo satellite motor drives based on Xilinx ZYNQ-7000. Accordingly, the objective of the system is to control a robot composed of multiple joints.

So, you can execute the biopsy by driving one mechanical positioner composed of 6 PMSM motors and

INTRODUCTION

This is the third article of a series. which aim is a feasibility study for a modular system for biopsy. This system is composed of the main control board based on Xilinx ZYNQ Ultrascale+ and servo satellite motor drives based on Xilinx ZYNQ-7000. Accordingly, the objective of the system is to control a robot composed of multiple joints.

So, the biopsy is executed by driving one mechanical positioner composed of 6 Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSM) motors and multiple joints, that are coordinated to position the biopsy needle on the

Main Characteristics

This is the second article of a series, which aim is a feasibility study for a modular system composed of the main control board based on Xilinx ZYNQ Ultrascale+ and servo satellite motor drives based on Xilinx ZYNQ-7000. The objective of the system is to control a robot composed of multiple joints. The article’s target is an automation of a prostate biopsy to assist doctors during medical procedures. The biopsy is executed by driving one mechanical positioner composed of 6 Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSM) motors and multiple joints

INTRODUCTION

This is the first article of a series, about the study of a system to control a medical robot for biopsy automation composed of multiple joints. The main control board runs on ZYNQ Ultrascale+ whereas the servo satellite motor drives run on ZYNQ-7000.

Specifically, the satellite boards control a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) each. Specifically, each motor controls the steering of the needle.

Figure 1 shows its rough principle.

Although the picture shows 6 motors, the system should be able to scale up to 24.

The main characteristics of the modular system are:

Firstly,

Introduction

This article will talk about the Ultrasound Ultrafast Imaging modality on the new AMD-Xilinx Versal chip. The work described here is an implementation by MakarenaLabs for AMD-Xilinx and is currently in early access for customers.

To begin with, we will briefly introduce the UltraFast methodology and what does it mean.

Secondly we are going to talk about Versal and how to create and partition design on this new technology.

Lastly we are going to talk about the Ultrasound Libraries on the new Versal chip and how to exploit them.

UltraFast Imaging

UltraFast Imaging is a

MuseBox is the MakarenaLabs flagship product and we make it available to you a new on-premise Demo on the MuseBox site. We show seamless integration of AI applications simultaneously on several different Xilinx AMD hardware. From Ultra96 and Kria, U200 and U50 Alveo cards up to VCK5000. You can execute AI inference from your web browser wherever you are, on any of the AI models we made available, running them in real-time on the boards and getting performance results.

What is MuseBox?

MuseBox ( https://musebox.it ) is a production system for extracting

Reading GPS Coordinates through Pynq-z2

Introduction

In this tutorial, we will show how to create a custom hardware design with Xilinx’s DPU IP provided in the Vitis AI toolchain. Specifically, you can use this approach with any custom design which is Vivado compatible, and you can extend it to infer AI models.

What is the DPU IP

The Xilinx® Deep Learning Processor Unit (DPU) is a programmable engine dedicated for convolutional neural network. The unit contains register configure module, data controller module, and convolution computing module. There is a specialized instruction set for DPU, which enables DPU to

Introduction

Welcome to part 2 of the previous article about PWM signals and PYNQ! In this article, we will show what is a servo motor and how to control a servo motor with the previous design of the PWM on the PYNQ framework, with a simple “recipe”. If you have missed the previous article, you can find it here!

So, let’s start!

What is a Servo Motor

A Servo Motor is a rotary actuator or linear actuator that allows for precise control of angular or linear position, velocity, and acceleration. Servomotors are used in applications such as