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 AD5758 evaluation board: EVAL-AD5758SDZ

  2. FMC Interposer Board: EVAL-SDP-CK1Z (FMC-I-SDP)

    • Required to connect the SDP-format EVAL-AD5758SDZ to the ZedBoard’s FMC connector.

  3. An FPGA carrier platform. Our recommended platform can be found here.

    • The ZedBoard is the officially supported platform for this evaluation board.

    • The evaluation board connects via the FMC LPC connector using the FMC-I-SDP interposer.

  4. Some way to interact with the FPGA platform:

    1. For the ZedBoard (ARM/FPGA SoC platform), this normally includes:

      • USB cable for UART communication (required)

      • JTAG connection via USB (required for programming)

    2. A microSD card (16 GB or larger recommended) and an SD card reader to prepare the boot image.

  5. Power supply for the evaluation board:

    • A bench-top power supply capable of 24 V, with connector cables, for the PVIN input of the EVAL-AD5758SDZ.

  6. Equipment to measure the DAC output:

    • Digital multimeter (DMM), precision current meter, or oscilloscope

    • Appropriate load resistors or current loop for the output range under test

  7. Internet connection to download HDL and no-OS source code and build tools (firewalls are OK, proxies may require additional configuration).

Software prerequisites

For basic functionality and data visualization, you will need:

HDL Build Tools

To build the HDL reference design, you need:

  1. AMD Xilinx Vivado Design Suite (version specified in the HDL Release Notes)

  2. Make (GNU Make for building the HDL project)

  3. Git (for cloning the HDL repository)

See the HDL User Guide for detailed tool installation and build instructions.

No-OS Build Tools

This example uses the no-OS software. To build it, you need:

  1. ARM cross-compiler toolchain (e.g., arm-none-eabi-gcc)

  2. Make (GNU Make for building the no-OS project)

  3. Git (for cloning the no-OS repository)

See No-OS Build Guide for detailed setup instructions.

Optional Software

For enhanced evaluation and console access:

  1. Serial terminal application (e.g., PuTTY, Tera Term, minicom) for UART communication - required for viewing console output and DAC status

Note

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