Quick start guides

The Quick start guides provide simple step by step instructions on how to do an initial system setup for the EVAL-AD9434 boards on various FPGA development boards. In these guides, we will discuss how to program the bitstream, run a no-OS program or boot a Linux distribution.

• On ZedBoard
  • Using Linux as software
    • Necessary files
    • Required Software
    • Required Hardware
    • Testing
      • Creating the setup
      • Boot messages
      • Useful commands for the serial terminal
      • IIO Oscilloscope
  • Using no-OS as software
    • Necessary files
    • Required Software
    • Required Hardware
    • Testing
      • Creating the setup
      • Console output
• On ZC706
  • Using Linux as software
    • Necessary files
    • Required Software
    • Required Hardware
    • Testing
      • Creating the setup
      • Boot messages
      • Useful commands for the serial terminal
      • IIO Oscilloscope
  • Using no-OS as software
    • Necessary files
    • Required Software
    • Required Hardware
    • Testing
      • Creating the setup
      • Console output

Supported carriers

The EVAL-AD9434 is, by definition a “FPGA mezzanine card” (FMC); that means it needs a carrier to plug into.

The carriers we support are:

FPGA board	EVAL-AD9434
ZC706	FMC LPC
ZedBoard	FMC LPC

Supported Environments

The supported OS are:

FPGA board	HDL	Linux software	No-OS software
ZC706	Yes	Yes	Yes
ZedBoard	Yes	Yes	Yes

Hardware setup

On most carriers, the EVAL-AD9434 board connect to the LPC connector (unless otherwise noted). The carrier setup requires power, UART (115200), Ethernet (Linux), HDMI (if available) and/or JTAG (no-OS) connections. A few typical setups are shown below.

ZedBoard + EVAL-AD9434

ZC706 + EVAL-AD9434