Prerequisites

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

Hardware prerequisites

1. One of the AD35xxR evaluation boards:

   • EVAL-AD3552RFMC1Z - optimized for high-speed dynamic performance (EVAL-AD3552RFMC1Z)

   • EVAL-AD3552RFMC2Z - optimized for DC precision (EVAL-AD3552RFMC2Z)

   • EVAL-AD3542RFMCZ - 12-bit variant

2. ZedBoard Rev D or later (Zynq-7000 SoC)

3. 16 GB (or larger) Class 10 micro-SD card

4. 12 V, 3 A power supply for the ZedBoard

5. Micro-USB cable (UART, J14 on ZedBoard)

6. Ethernet cable

7. An oscilloscope for monitoring DAC outputs (J4, J5 SMB connectors)

Software prerequisites

The following files must be placed on the micro-SD card boot partition before powering on the ZedBoard. They are available as part of the ADI Kuiper Linux image:

• BOOT.BIN - pre-built boot binary for the EVAL-AD3552R on ZedBoard

• uImage - Linux kernel image

• devicetree.dtb - device tree blob for the ZedBoard + EVAL-AD3552R

For basic data visualization and DAC control we use:

1. IIO Oscilloscope - graphical tool for capturing and visualizing IIO device data

2. Scopy - oscilloscope and waveform generator application

3. libiio (required by IIO Oscilloscope and pyadi-iio on the host PC)

4. PyADI-IIO - optional Python scripting interface

Note

ADI does not offer FPGA carrier platforms for sale or loan; obtaining a ZedBoard is a normal part of evaluation and development.