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 LTC2387-18-based evaluation board: CN0577

  2. An FPGA carrier platform. Our recommended ones 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:

      • HDMI or DisplayPort monitor

      • USB Keyboard

      • USB Mouse

    2. for the FPGA only solutions, this includes:

      • LAN cable (Ethernet)

      • Host PC (Windows or Linux)

  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. An SD card with at least 16 GB of memory, either provided with the evaluation board or required to be prepared by the user.

  6. {‘Test equipment for generating analog input signals’: ‘signal generator, SMA cable.’}

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.