Prerequisites

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

Hardware prerequisites

1. An EVAL-AD4858 evaluation board

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

3. Some way to interact with the FPGA platform:

   • Micro-USB cable for UART console

   • LAN cable (Ethernet) for SSH or IIO applications

4. Internet connection to update the scripts/binaries on the SD card.

5. Test equipment for generating analog input signals.

6. An SD card with at least 16GB of memory (in case you’re using Linux). You should have received one when purchasing the evaluation board.

Software prerequisites

Normally, for basic functionalities regarding visualizing the data received from the FPGA, we use the following:

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

2. IIO Oscilloscope

3. UART terminal application (PuTTY/TeraTerm/Minicom), 115200 8N1

Note

Instructions on how to build the Zynq Linux kernel and devicetrees from source can be found here:

• Building the Zynq Linux kernel and devicetrees from source

• How to build the Zynq boot image BOOT.BIN

Note

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

Optional Hardware

• M2K

• AD-M2KBNC-EBZ

• 2x BNC to SMA cables

• 2x Micro-B USB cables

Note

For custom systems where the AD4858 chip is used, we recommend using an external clock, and not a clock from the FPGA like it is done in this reference design.