CN0577 HDL project

Overview

The CN0577 provides an analog front-end and an FMC digital interface for LTC2387-18, its core. It is a low noise, high speed successive approximation register (SAR) ADC with a resolution of 18 bits and sampling rate up to 15MSPS.

CN0577 includes an on-board reference oscillator and a retiming circuit to minimize signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) degradation due to the FPGA additive jitter.

In order to support high speed operations while minimizing the number of data lines, a serial LVDS digital interface is used. It has a one-lane and two-lane output modes, allowing the user to optimize the interface data rate for each application, through setting a parameter.

Supported boards

• CN0577

Supported devices

• ADAQ23876

• LTC2387-18

Supported carriers

• ZedBoard on FMC slot

Block design

Warning

The VADJ for the Zedboard must be set to 2.5V.

Block diagram

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

Configuration modes

• TWOLANES: specifies the number of lanes used

  • 1 - two-lane output mode (default)

  • 0 - one-lane output mode

Jumper setup

Depending on what configuration of pins is chosen on the jumpers P1, P2 and P3, the device can act in different modes, as described below. Of course, the PD jumper overrides the PD signal from the FPGA. It is controlled by a one-bit-adc-dac, in software.

• P1 - configures PD_N

  • Shorting pins 1 and 2 → PD_N = 1, device is not powered down

  • Shorting pins 2 and 3 → PD_N = 0, device is powered down

• P2 - configures TESTPAT

  • Shorting pins 1 and 2 → TESTPAT = 1, pattern testing is active

  • Shorting pins 2 and 3 → TESTPAT = 0, pattern testing is inactive

• P3 - configures TWOLANES parameter

  • Shorting pins 1 and 2 → TWOLANES = 1 (TWO LANES mode)

  • Shorting pins 2 and 3 → TWOLANES = 0 (ONE LANE mode)

Clock scheme

• The clock architecture of the CN0577 is designed with careful consideration to ensure low jitter and low phase noise

• An on-board 120 MHz voltage controlled crystal oscillator (VCXO) is used to provide the clock for the CN0577 board and the FPGA. It is further named as reference clock. This clock is gated and fed back to the device as the sampling clock, on which the data was sampled

• The DMA runs on the ZynqPS clock FCLK_CLK0 which has a frequency of 100MHz

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_ltc2387	0x44A0_0000
axi_ltc2387_dma	0x44A3_0000
axi_pwm_gen	0x44A6_0000

GPIOs

GPIO signal	Direction	HDL GPIO EMIO	Software GPIO	Software GPIO
	(from FPGA view)		Zynq-7000	Zynq MP
testpat_cntrl	IN	32	86	110
pd_cntrl	IN	33	87	111

Interrupts

Below are the Programmable Logic interrupts used in this project.

Instance name	HDL	Linux Zynq	Actual Zynq
axi_ltc2387_dma	13	57	89

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.

Default (two-lane mode):

user@analog:~$ cd hdl/projects/cn0577/zed
user@analog:~/hdl/projects/cn0577/zed$ make

If one-lane mode is desired:

user@analog:~$ cd hdl/projects/cn0577/zed
user@analog:~/hdl/projects/cn0577/zed$ make TWOLANES=0

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

Resources

Systems related

• [Wiki] EVAL-CN0577-FMCZ User Guide

• [Wiki] CN0577 HDL Reference Design

Hardware related

• Product datasheets:

  • LTC2387-18

• Circuit Note CN0577

HDL related

• CN0577 HDL project source code

IP name	Source code link	Documentation link
AXI_LTC2387	library/axi_ltc2387	[Wiki]
AXI_CLKGEN	library/axi_clkgen	here
AXI_DMAC	library/axi_dmac	here
AXI_SYSID	library/axi_sysid	here
AXI_PWM_GEN	library/axi_pwm_gen	here
AXI_HDMI_TX	library/axi_hdmi_tx	here
AXI_I2S_ADI	library/axi_i2s_adi	—
AXI_SPDIF_TX	library/axi_spdif_tx	—
SYSID_ROM	library/sysid_rom	here
UTIL_I2C_MIXER	library/util_i2c_mixer	—

Software related

• [Wiki] LTC2387 SAR ADC IIO Linux driver page

• CN0577 Linux device tree

• LTC2387 Linux driver

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.