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 EVAL-AD9213-DUAL-EBZ evaluation board

  2. Intel Stratix 10 SX SoC Development Kit (1SX280HU2F50E1VGAS)

  3. RF Power Splitter for splitting the test tone to apply two equal signals to each of the two ADCs

  4. Phase matched coaxial cables to connect the power splitter to the ADC input board connectors

  5. RF Balun for single-ended-to-differential conversion of the 500 MHz reference clock signal, if your signal generator does not have a differential output

  6. Coax cables for the 500 MHz reference clock connections

  7. Signal generators:

    • Analog signal source: frequency and power requirements depend on the tests to be performed; a bandpass filter is often used for single tone tests

    • 500 MHz Reference Clock source: should have very low phase noise and be capable of supplying a 5 dBm 500 MHz clock signal

  8. PC running Windows with at least 2 USB ports and an Ethernet port, and the following cables to connect to it:

    • One mini-USB cable

    • One micro-USB cable

    • One Ethernet cable

Software prerequisites

The following software must be installed on the host PC:

  • Intel Quartus Prime Programmer 19.3

  • A serial terminal application (e.g. PuTTY, minicom, or screen)

  • IIO Oscilloscope

  • VisualAnalog

    • VisualAnalog Canvas for AD9213-DUAL-EBZ (supplied by ADI)

    • libiio (required for using the IIO Client block in the provided VisualAnalog Canvas)

    • IIO Plugin for VisualAnalog

Note

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