AD9434-FMC HDL project#

Overview#

The AD9434 is a 12-bit monolithic sampling analog-to-digital converter (ADC) optimized for high performance, low power, and ease of use. The part operates at up to a 500 MSPS conversion rate and is optimized for outstanding dynamic performance in wideband carrier and broadband systems. All necessary functions, including a sample-and-hold and voltage reference, are included on the chip to provide a complete signal conversion solution. This reference design includes a data capture interface and the external DDR-DRAM interface for sample storage. It allows programming the device and monitoring its internal status registers. The board also provides other options to drive the clock and analog inputs of the ADC.

Supported boards#

Supported devices#

Supported carriers#

Evaluation board

Carrier

FMC slot

EVAL-AD9434-FMC-500EBZ

ZC706

FMC LPC

ZedBoard

FMC LPC

Block design#

Block diagram#

AD9434-FMC/ZC706/ZED block diagram

Clock scheme#

There are multiple ways to configure the clock source for AD9434. In this section is presented a guide on how to rework the board to the desired user clock circuitry. Below is a table on what components are needed to install or uninstall on the evaluation board.

Clock Configuration

Install

Uninstall

Ext. Signal Gen.

as it is

as it is

Oscillator

R209, P1(shunt)

LVPECL

R208, R307, R308, C300, C311, C304, C305

C209, C210

LVDS

R208, C306, C307

C209, C210, R311

For LVPECL and LVDS configurations, appropriate charge pump filter circuit values are necessary to have an optimized clock buffer performance from AD9517-4.

Warning

On Zedboard, the frequency is set to 463.82MHz, because there is a limitation for BUFG input clock frequency to 464MHz, which is below the maximum sampling rate of the ADC (500MSPS).

Thus the adc_clk period is set to 2.156ns (463.82MHz) on Zedboard.

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

Zynq/Microblaze

axi_ad9434

0x44A0_0000

axi_ad9434_dma

0x44A3_0000

SPI connections#

SPI type

SPI manager instance

SPI subordinate

CS

PS

SPI 0

AD9517

1

PS

SPI 0

AD9434

0

Interrupts#

Below are the Programmable Logic interrupts used in this project.

Instance name

HDL

Linux Zynq

Actual Zynq

axi_ad9783_dma

13

57

89

These are the board-specific interrupts (found in here).

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.

Then go to the project location (projects/ad9434_fmc/carrier) and run the make command by typing in your command prompt (this example is for ZC706):

Linux/Cygwin/WSL

user@analog:~$ cd hdl/projects/ad9434_fmc/zc706
user@analog:~/hdl/projects/ad9434_fmc/zc706$ make

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

Resources#

More information#

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.