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 ARRADIO board by Arrow & Terasic for the AD9361

  2. An FPGA carrier platform. Our recommended one is the Terasic C5 SoCkit.

  3. For the ARM/FPGA SoC platform (Terasic C5 SoCkit), you will need:

    • An 16GB (or larger) Micro-SD Card

    • USB keyboard and mouse

    • OTG Cable (for the USB keyboard and mouse)

    • A VGA compatible monitor

    • Ethernet cable

    • 1 x Micro-USB cable (for UART terminal access)

  4. Internet connection (without proxies makes things much easier) to update the scripts/binaries on the SD card (firewalls are OK, proxies make things a pain).

  5. RF Test equipment

HSMC supply

The Arradio evaluation board is powered through the HSMC connector.

The VADJ values can be checked out in the README.md file of each combination with an FPGA, at: projects/arradio.

Software prerequisites

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

  1. A Host PC (Linux) for initial setup and configuration

  2. A UART terminal (Putty/Tera Term/Minicom, etc.), Baud rate 115200 (8N1)

  3. IIO Oscilloscope for data visualization and device control

Note

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