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 AD7768/AD7768-4-based evaluation boards: EVAL-AD7768 / EVAL-AD7768-4

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

    • There are a few more boards, which do work, but are currently not supported by us. The experience with the fabric-only solutions is very close to the ARM/FPGA SoC based solutions, but the GUI runs on a host PC (Windows or Linux).

  3. Some way to interact with the FPGA platform:

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

      • Micro‑USB cable for UART console

      • LAN cable (Ethernet) for SSH or IIO applications

      • HDMI or DisplayPort monitor (Optional)

      • USB Keyboard (Optional)

      • USB Mouse (Optional)

    2. for the FPGA-only, this includes:

      • LAN cable (Ethernet)

      • Host PC (Windows or Linux)

      • Micro‑USB cable for UART

      • Micro‑USB cable for JTAG (PROG)

  4. 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).

  5. Test equipment for generating analog input signals.

  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. IIO Oscilloscope

  3. UART terminal application (PuTTY/TeraTerm/Minicom), 115200 8N1

Note

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