The Road to embedded world North America: Opal Kelly Accelerates FPGA Development
October 27, 2025
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As you visit embedded world North America, make sure to stop by Booth 9056 where Opal Kelly will be demonstrating its FrontPanel 6, a next generation development platform built on web technologies. Utilizing JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, design teams can create FPGA-connected applications that run directly in the browser.
Booth demonstrations will run on the XEM8320 development platform paired with a variety of SYZYGY peripherals. The XEM8320 combines Opal Kelly integration, high-speed USB connectivity, and a flexible expansion interface that fits many real-world test setups. SYZYGY peripherals round out the system with add-on modules for data conversion, sensors, and video I/O. This mix makes it easy to show how FrontPanel 6 applications map cleanly to practical lab tasks like stimulus, capture, and visualization.
Booth Demos:
Machine Vision Pipeline:
Witness an end-to-end pipeline blending FPGA acceleration with browser-based AI. The FPGA performs video capture and pre-processing, with HLS used for selected stages. In the browser, a JavaScript application runs TensorFlow models for object or feature detection and overlays results in real time. The entire experience runs inside a standard web page that talks to the hardware through FrontPanel 6.
FFT Scope:
Explore a signal analysis workflow that pairs high-speed data acquisition with FPGA-based FFT processing. A FrontPanel 6 web app provides a responsive interface for configuration, capture, and visualization. You can select input sources, sweep parameters, and view magnitude spectra and markers directly in the browser. The demo shows how to combine a signal generator, fast capture, and on-FPGA processing to produce clean, interactive plots without switching tools or exporting files.
Highlights:
- Browser-native control with real hardware - FrontPanel 6 turns a web page into a lab instrument that can configure registers, stream data, and visualize results
- Familiar tools for FPGA apps - Developers use JavaScript for control logic, HTML for layout, and CSS for UI presentation - Teams can bring in charts, UI libraries, and testing frameworks they already rely on
- Reusable building blocks - The same patterns that drive these demos apply to many workflows. Swap in a different SYZYGY peripheral, change the bitstream, update the page, and you have a new application that feels consistent to your team
- Faster collaboration - Share a URL or a project folder and teammates can reproduce your setup, capture the same plots, and iterate together
Designed for:
- Research and prototyping teams needing to validate algorithms on real signals and iterate quickly in the lab
- OEMs moving from evaluation to design-in who want a repeatable way to test configurations and capture data across locations
- Educators and teaching labs that want approachable, visual tooling for introducing FPGA concepts without heavy desktop installs
- Test and validation groups that need consistent procedures and easy ways to document results
For more information, visit opalkelly.com/.
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