Prerequisites

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

1. The AD9084-FMCA-EBZ` evaluation card.

2. A carrier platform. ADI does not offer these boards for sale or loan, getting one yourself is normal part of development or evaluation of the AD9084.

   • See the supported carriers.

   • The carrier may require one or more FMC+ riser cards.

3. Analysis | Control | Evaluation (ACE) software with the AD9084 plugin installed.

   • Download ACE software

   • Apollo Profile Generator

4. Some way to interact with the platform,

   • for the FPGA only solutions, this includes:

     • LAN cable (Ethernet)

     • Host PC (Windows or Linux)

     • Micro-USB or USB-C cables

     • SD Card with at least 16 GB of memory

5. Internet connection (without proxies makes things much easier) to update the scripts/binaries on the SD Card that came with the ADI FMC Card. (Firewalls are OK, proxies make things a pain).

6. RF Test equipment.