EVAL-AD9694

14-Bit, 500 MSPS, Quad, JESD204B Analog-to-Digital Converter Evaluation Board.

Overview

The AD9694-500EBZ is a full-featured evaluation board for the AD9694, a quad, 14-bit, 500 MSPS analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a JESD204B serial interface. The device is organized as two dual ADC pairs (Pair AB and Pair CD).

The board provides all support circuitry required to operate the AD9694 in its various modes and configurations. It connects to an FPGA carrier board running ADI Kuiper Linux with IIO-based software tools.

Features:

• JESD204B coded serial digital outputs with support for lane rates up to 15 Gbps/lane

• Wide full-power bandwidth supports IF sampling of signals up to 1.4 GHz

• Four integrated wideband decimation filters and NCO blocks supporting multiband receivers

• Buffered inputs ease filter design and implementation

• Programmable fast overrange detection and signal monitoring

• On-chip temperature diode for system thermal management

Applications:

• Multi-band, multi-mode receivers

• Radar and electronic warfare

• Instrumentation and test equipment

• Software-defined radio (SDR)

Figure 1 AD9694-500EBZ

Recommendations

People who follow the flow that is outlined, have a much better experience with things. However, like many things, documentation is never as complete as it should be. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on our EngineerZone forums, but before that, please make sure you read our documentation thoroughly.

To better understand the AD9694, we recommend using the AD9694-500EBZ evaluation board.

Table of contents

1. Using the evaluation board/full stack reference design that we offer:

   1. User guide — hardware guide for the evaluation board

   2. Prerequisites — what you need to get started

   3. Quick start guides:

      1. Using the ZCU102/Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC

   4. Configure an SD Card with Kuiper

   5. Linux Applications

      1. IIO Oscilloscope

2. Design with the AD9694

   • Block diagram

     • AD9694 product page

   • Resources for designing a custom AD9694-based platform

     1. For Linux software:

        1. About the device driver:

           • AD9694 Linux IIO ADC driver

           • JESD204B Receive Linux driver

           • JESD204B/C AXI_ADXCVR High-speed transceivers Linux driver

           • AXI ADC HDL Linux driver

           • AXI-DMAC DMA Controller Linux driver

        2. About the device tree:

           • Customizing the device tree on the target

        3. About the JESD204 utilities:

           • JESD204 (FSM) Interface Linux Kernel Framework

           • JESD204 status utility

           • JESD204 Interface Framework

     2. HDL reference design which you must use in your FPGA.

3. Help and Support

Block diagram

ADI articles

About the JESD204 standard:

1. JESD204B Survival Guide

2. JESD204C Primer: What’s New and in It for You—Part 1

3. JESD204C Primer: What’s New and in It for You—Part 2

Warning

All the products described on this page include ESD (electrostatic discharge) sensitive devices. Electrostatic charges as high as 4000V readily accumulate on the human body or test equipment and can discharge without detection. Although the boards feature ESD protection circuitry, permanent damage may occur on devices subjected to high-energy electrostatic discharges. Therefore, proper ESD precautions are recommended to avoid performance degradation or loss of functionality. This includes removing static charge on external equipment, cables, or antennas before connecting to the device.

Help and support

Please go to Help and Support page.