Prerequisites

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

Hardware prerequisites

  1. The AD-FREQCVT1-EBZ

  2. An AD-FMCOMMS3/4/5 platform

  3. An FPGA carrier platform. Our recommended one can be found here.

  4. Some way to interact with the FPGA platform:

    • Micro-USB cable for UART console

    • LAN cable (Ethernet) for SSH or IIO applications

    • HDMI or DisplayPort monitor (Optional)

    • USB Keyboard (Optional)

    • USB Mouse (Optional)

  5. SMA loopback cable

  6. 12-pin ribbon cable

  7. 3-pin power cable

  8. SD card with at least 16 GB of memory

Software prerequisites

The following software is needed on the host PC:

Note

Pre-built files for this reference design are not yet available. The files must be built manually using the links above. Official release artifacts will be provided here once available. For now, check: Build an HDL project and Build the Linux kernel

  1. SD card 16 GB imaged with Kuiper (check out that guide on how to do it, then come back here).

  2. A UART terminal (PuTTY/Tera Term/Minicom), 115200 baud, 8N1.

  3. IIO Oscilloscope for data visualization.

For capturing and visualizing data from the device:

  1. Scopy v2.0 or later (must contain the IIO plugin)

  2. IIO Oscilloscope, a graphical tool for capturing and visualizing IIO device data

Note

ADI does not offer FPGA carrier platforms for sale or loan; getting one yourself is the normal part of development or evaluation.