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 AD9467-based evaluation board: EVAL-AD9467

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

  3. Some way to interact with the FPGA platform:

    1. for the ARM/FPGA SoC platforms, this normally includes:

      • HDMI or DisplayPort monitor

      • USB Keyboard

      • USB Mouse

    2. for the FPGA only solutions, this includes:

      • LAN cable (Ethernet)

      • Host PC (Windows or Linux)

  4. Internet connection (without proxies makes things much easier) to connect to the FPGA carrier and test the board.

  5. RF Test equipment:

    • Signal generator for clock input 250 MHz

    • Signal generator for analog input (for data capture)

  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. UART terminal software (Tera Term, Putty, or equivalent) at 115200 baud rate

Note

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