Objective: This post presents the assembly of Surface Mount Components (SMT) on a 4-layer board using a cheap toaster oven. It aims to show that the toaster is sufficient to achieve remarkable results for DIY PCB boards. Recommended Prerequisite articles to read i) Electronics Work Station: Essential Tools Introduction Some time back, I decided to …
Objective: This series of articles presents the design of a mobile satellite ground station. The basic idea is to build a custom low-cost and mobile rotator for satellite tracking and pointing a parabolic dish for C-band communication with a satellite. Part 3 covers the elevation , dish antenna integration and tracking software link. Recommended Prerequisite …
Objective: This series of articles presents the design of a mobile satellite ground station. The basic idea is to build a custom low-cost and mobile rotator for satellite tracking and pointing a parabolic dish for C-band communication with a satellite. Part 2 will cover component selection and assembly. Recommended Prerequisite articles to read i) Mobile …
Objective: This series of articles presents the design of a mobile satellite ground station. The basic idea is to build a custom low-cost and mobile rotator for satellite tracking and pointing a parabolic dish for C-band communication with a satellite. Part 1 will cover the design concept. Recommended Prerequisite articles to read None Introduction One …
Objective: This article will present the Petalinux approach of building custom images for the Ultra96-V2 board. It will utilize hardware design files built on Vivado from the previous article. Recommended Prerequisite articles to read i) Ultra96-V2 Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC Custom Image Creation (Part 1): Hardware Generation In the previous article, we generated the hardware design …
Objective: This three-part series is focused on creating a custom Embedded Linux image for a Zynq MPSoC based board. The board utilized here is the Ultra96 v2 from Avnet. Nevertheless, the steps followed can easily be applied to other Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC boards such as the Xilinx ZCU102 and ZCU104. Recommended Prerequisite articles to read: …
Objective: This writeup will cover WiFi configuration on Raspberry Pi using the Yocto tool. The goal is to have an automatic WiFi connection on boot-up Recommended prerequisite articles to read: Custom Raspberry Pi Image Build with Yocto In the previous article, we built a console-only image for the Raspberry Pi 4. For such a headless …
Objective: This writeup will guide you on how to create a custom minimal image for Raspberry Pi 4 board using the Yocto build tool. More capability and flesh will be added to the image in subsequent writeups. Recommended prerequisite articles to read: Yocto: Environment Set-up and Initial Build In this writeup, we will explore building …
Objective: This writeup will guide you on how to create your first project targeting the Ultra96-V2 board and using the Vitis and Vivado 2019.2 environments. It will be a detailed step by step guide and will focus on providing an overview of the whole development cycle. Recommended prerequisite articles to read: Ultra96 – V2 Board: …
Objective: This is an introduction to the Ultra96-V2 board. It covers a brief background on the relationship between the board, Xilinx and the 96Boards. It presents the necessary accessories and takes the reader through some initial board bring-up. It also covers the software development options available for the board and within Xilinx ecosystem. Recommended prerequisite …