Quick Hints Check Harddisk SMART Status by Harald Rosenfeldt|Published January 4, 2024-Updated January 4, 2024 On the Windows command line: wmic diskdrive get model,status It either gives you “OK” or “PRED FAIL”.
Published January 2, 2018 Xilinx SDK Auto Update Bug? When exporting the hardware to the Xilinx SDK (I am using 2017.2), the SDK automatically updates the system wrapper. Unfortunately it messes […]
Published August 19, 2018 Measuring RF Noise With an RF Spectrum Analyzer (or how to convert dBm into V/sqrt(Hz)) Well, here is the short story: RF Spectrum Analyzers display the result in dBm, whereas noise specifications are often given in nV/sqrt(Hz). […]
Published December 30, 2017 Xilinx SDK with Math Support Can’t figure out why you can’t use cos, sin or pow functions in a Xilinx SDK project? I found it surprisingly obscure […]
Published December 27, 2017 ZYNQ: Run FPGA without PS (and SDK) Getting started with the ZYNQ, all I wanted was running a simple Blinki code in Verilog. This turned out to be much […]