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Specialist providers of VHDL Intellectual Property & Design Services
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Latest News
23 Jan 2022 - An updated tutorial can be found here: Using Xilinx PetaLinux, Vitis & Vivado 2021.2 with Xubuntu 20.04.3 on a Zedboard rev. D. Updates include swapping out SVN for GIT, adding more dynamically reconfigurable options, consolidating some of the sections for consistency, removing the CGI scripts section and updating the Javascript to use the CGI binaries instead, providing complete tutorial files on Bitbucket and also providing Vivado & Vitis scripts to create & build projects from source. The previous tutorial is still available here: Using Xilinx PetaLinux, Vitis & Vivado 2021.2 with Xubuntu 20.04.2 on a Zedboard rev. D for anyone following that particular thread.

10 Nov 2021 - An updated tutorial can be found here: Using Xilinx PetaLinux, Vitis & Vivado 2021.2 with Xubuntu 20.04.2 on a Zedboard rev. D. This tutorial utilises the latest 2021.2 release from Xilinx, released 27 October 2021. Updates include the Vivado and PetaLinux projects, these are now not reliant on the Digilent BSP for the Zedboard, making them much more portable to other platforms.

18 Oct 2021 - SpaceWire UK's IP is currently being adapted to have the industry standard AXI4 & AXI4-Stream interfaces and will be available inside a Xilinx Vivado IP Repository. Also in development is an embedded PetaLinux environment running on an ARM processor inside a Zynq FPGA that will allow the user to control and monitor various IP blocks using web widgets hosted on a Webserver. For a previous please see here for a preview.

06 Apr 2021 - The start of a tutorial can be found here: Using Xilinx PetaLinux, Vitis & Vivado 2020.2 with Xubuntu 20.04.2 on a Zedboard rev. D. Hopefully this tutorial can be grown into something much bigger - available time at present is problematic so progress will likely be slow. Any comments, suggestions or improvements very much welcome - please use the Contact form for these.

23 Jun 2013 - The SpaceWire UK website re-design goes live.

30 Jun 2006 - All SpaceWire IP is now available to evaluate, see the Contact Page to obtain your copy today.

24 Apr 2005 - New (fixed) Contact Page added. Apologies to anyone whose enquiries did not get forwarded. Also a fully integrated SpaceWire Switch + CODEC can now be requested for evaluation, which also includes time-code distribution.

10 Dec 2004 - Actel 100Mbit/s SpaceWire CODEC front-end due out very soon...

17 Nov 2004 - The TMR (Triple Modulo Redundant) 10Mbit/s SpaceWire CODEC is now available and can be requested via our Contact page. Its 400Mbit/s big brother will be along soon...

11 Nov 2004 - Initial (draft) information for the new family of SpaceWire CODEC's released. See the SpaceWire CODEC for further information.

22 Oct 2004 - A new family of SpaceWire CODEC's are comming soon starting from 10MBits/s upto 500MBits/s. See the SpaceWire CODEC for preliminary information.

11 Sep 2004 - Ye olde Pacman is back and he's hungry too. See the Pacman LCD Demo for more information.

6 Sep 2004 - All designs will soon be accompanied by support files for the new Spartan-3 Xilinx boards from Trenz Electronic.

6 Sep 2004 - The SpaceWire UK website is launched!