AD4134-FMC HDL project#

Overview#

The AD4134 is a quad channel, low noise, simultaneous sampling, precision analog-to-digital converter (ADC), based on the continuous time sigma-delta (CTSD) modulation scheme. This architecture inherently rejects signals around the ADC aliasing frequency band, giving the device its inherent antialiasing capability, and removesthe need for a complex external antialiasing filter.

This device has four independent converter channels in parallel, each with a CTSD modulator and a digital decimation and filtering path. It enables simultaneous sampling of four signal sources, with a maximum input bandwidth of 391.5 kHz. It supports a wide range of ODR frequencies, from 0.01 kSPS to 1496 kSPS wih less than 0.01 SPS adjustment resolution, allowing the user to granularly vary sampling speed to achieve coherent sampling.

The AD4134 supports two device configuration schemes: serial peripheral interface (SPI) and hardware pin configuration (pin control mode). The SPI control mode offers access to all the features and configuration options available on the chip.Pin control mode offers the benefit of simplifying the device configuration, enabling the device to operate autonomously after power-up operating in a standalone mode.

The HDL reference design for the EVAL-AD4134 provides all the interfaces that are necessary to interact with the device using a Xilinx FPGA development board; to acquire continuous data from the 24-bit 4-channel precision alias free ADC device.

Supported boards#

EVAL-AD4134

Supported devices#

AD4134

Supported carriers#

ZedBoard on FMC slot

Block design#

The reference design uses the SPI Engine Framework to interface with the AD4134 ADC and only supports the slave mode with both DCLK and ODR generated by the FPGA. The device sends data on the 4 DIN bits.

Block diagram#

The data path and clock domains are depicted in the below diagram:

Jumper setup#

Jumper/Solder link	Position	Description
JP16	Mounted	MODE (Slave) and DCLKIO (Input)

CPU/Memory interconnects addresses#

The addresses are dependent on the architecture of the FPGA, having an offset added to the base address from HDL(see more at HDL Architecture).

Instance	Address
spi_ad4134_axi_regmap	0x44A0_0000
axi_ad4134_dma	0x44A3_0000
odr_generator	0x44B0_0000
axi_ad4134_clkgen	0x44B1_0000

SPI connections#

SPI type	SPI manager instance	SPI subordinate	CS
PS	SPI 0	AD4134	0

GPIOs#

The Software GPIO number is calculated as follows:

Zynq-7000: if PS7 is used, then offset is 54

GPIO signal	Direction	HDL GPIO EMIO	Software GPIO
	(from FPGA view)		Zynq-7000
ad4134_dclkio	INOUT	45	99
ad4134_dclk_mode	INOUT	44	98
ad4134_gpio[7:0]	INOUT	43:36	97:90
ad4134_pinbspi	INOUT	35	89
ad4134_mode	INOUT	34	88
ad4134_pdn	INOUT	33	87
ad4134_resetn	INOUT	32	86

Interrupts#

Below are the Programmable Logic interrupts used in this project.

Instance name	HDL	Linux Zynq	Actual Zynq
axi_ad4134_dma	13	57	89
spi_ad4134	12	56	88

Building the HDL project#

The design is built upon ADI’s generic HDL reference design framework. ADI distributes the bit/elf files of these projects as part of the ADI Kuiper Linux. If you want to build the sources, ADI makes them available on the HDL repository. To get the source you must clone the HDL repository, and then build the project as follows:.

Linux/Cygwin/WSL

user@analog:~$ cd hdl/projects/ad4134_fmc/zed
user@analog:~/hdl/projects/ad4134_fmc/zed$ make

A more comprehensive build guide can be found in the Build an HDL project user guide.

Resources#

HDL related#

AD4134-FMC HDL project source code

IP name	Source code link	Documentation link
AXI_CLKGEN	library/axi_clkgen	here
AXI_DMAC	library/axi_dmac	here
AXI_HDMI_TX	library/axi_hdmi_tx	here
AXI_I2S_ADI	library/axi_i2s_adi	—
AXI_PWM_GEN	library/axi_pwm_gen	here
AXI_SPDIF_TX	library/axi_spdif_tx	—
AXI_SYSID	library/axi_sysid	here
AXI_SPI_ENGINE	library/spi_engine/axi_spi_engine	here
SPI_ENGINE_EXECUTION	library/spi_engine/spi_engine_execution	here
SPI_ENGINE_INTERCONNECT	library/spi_engine/spi_engine_interconnect	here
SPI_ENGINE_OFFLOAD	library/spi_engine/spi_engine_offload	here
AXI_SYSID_ROM	library/sysid_rom	here
UTIL_I2C_MIXER	library/util_i2c_mixer	—

SPI Engine Framework documentation

More information#

ADI HDL User guide

Support#

Analog Devices, Inc. will provide limited online support for anyone using the reference design with ADI components via the EngineerZone FPGA reference designs forum.

For questions regarding the ADI Linux device drivers, device trees, etc. from our Linux GitHub repository, the team will offer support on the EngineerZone Linux software drivers forum.

For questions concerning the ADI No-OS drivers, from our No-OS GitHub repository, the team will offer support on the EngineerZone microcontroller No-OS drivers forum.

It should be noted, that the older the tools’ versions and release branches are, the lower the chances to receive support from ADI engineers.