User guide

EVAL-AD9081 top view:

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EVAL-AD9082 top view:

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The complete user guide of the evaluation board can be found at AD9081/AD9082 Software Development User Guide, UG-1578 (Rev. A).

Hardware guide

Hardware configuration

Warning

When using A10SoC in your setup, the following reworks are required on the evaluation board:

  • To avoid using an external clock source and fully rely on the HMC7044 clock chip, rotate the C6D/C4D caps in C5D/C3D position (Please note: In the latest version of the board, this is now the default configuration, so this configuration step might not be needed anymore).

  • If LEDS V1P0_LED and VINT_LED are not on, please depopulate R22M and populate R2M

For the carrier, A10SoC, the following reworks are mandatory: FMC Pin Connection Configuration

Warning

For FM87 setups, the following reworks are required on the evaluation board:

  • C39B, C40B: 50 ohm

For the carrier FM87, the following reworks are required:

  • R1433, R1434: 50 ohm

  • R1777, R1778: 50 ohm

  • C2488, C4289: 0 ohm

  • R1231, R1234: 1k ohm

  • R1230, R1233: 1k ohm

Power supply

The power supply comes from the FMC connector, given by the FPGA.

The VADJ values can be checked out in the README.md file of each combination with an FPGA, at: projects/ad9081_fmca_ebz.

Schematic, PCB Layout, Bill of Materials

The schematic can be found at ad9081-mxfe-fmca-revc-eval-board-schematic.pdf.

The archive ad9081-ad9082.zip contains the design files for EVAL-AD9081 and EVAL-AD9082 evaluation boards.

Software guide

The evaluation board is supported with the Libiio library. This library is cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac) with language bindings for C, C#, Python, MATLAB, and others. Two easy examples that can be used with it are: