Prerequisites

What you need depends on what you are trying to do. As a minimum, you need to start out with:

Hardware prerequisites

  1. One of the AD463x/AD403x evaluation boards:

  2. A Digilent ZedBoard with 12 V wall adapter power supply.

  3. PC with Windows 7 or later operating system.

  4. Precision signal source.

  5. SMA Cable(s) (input to evaluation board).

  6. Recommended - Band-pass filter centered on test signal frequency.

Evaluation board kit contents

  • EVAL-AD4630-24FMCZ, EVAL-AD4030-24FMCZ or EVAL-AD4630-16FMCZ evaluation board

  • Micro-SD memory card (with adapter) containing system board boot software and Linux OS

  • Optional - ZedBoard (system controller board)

Software prerequisites

  1. ACE Software for plug-and-play evaluation, configuration and data analysis.

  2. An ACE Quickstart guide is available here: ACE Quickstart - Using ACE and Installing Plug-ins