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Re:Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming by thfuran on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @08:02PM (#46440143)
>on a Zync FPGA so you got to choose which bits you did in hardware and what was in software.

You mean verilog vs block diagram, or did those boards have like a microcontroller too for more normal software?

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Re:Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming by dandeto on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @10:13PM (#46440873)
The Zync platforms I'm familiar with have an Arm processor, so you can write baremetal programs or have it boot Linux from an SD card. You can integrate hardware (FPGA) and software by reading/writing to shared memory over AXI or similar protocol.
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