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 AD9783-based evaluation board: EVAL-AD9783

  2. 5 V 1 A Power supply for the evaluation board

  3. A supported FPGA carrier platform, currently ZCU102 on HPC0

  4. Or SDP-H1 Board / ADS7-V2 Board

  5. AD-DAC-FMC-ADP High-Speed DAC Evaluation Board to FMC Adapter Board

  6. 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)

  7. 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).

  8. RF Test Equipment:

    • RF spectrum analyzer or signal analyzer (to measure and visualize the DAC output spectrum and performance)

    • High-Frequency Continuous Wave Generator (Clock Source)

    • SMA cables

  9. An SD card with at least 16GB of memory (in case you’re using Linux). You should have received one when purchasing the evaluation board.

  10. Banana Plug Cables

  11. The following are to be included:

    1. if using SDP-H1 Evaluation Kit:

      • 12 V 1 A Wall Adapter

      • USB-A to USB-Mini Cable

    2. if using ADS7-V2 Evaluation Kit:

      • 12 V power supply

      • Power cord

      • USB-A to USB-B cable

Software prerequisites

The following software is needed on the host PC:

  • A UART terminal (e.g. PuTTY, Tera Term, Minicom) configured for 115200 baud, 8N1

  • A microSD card flashed with the ADI Kuiper Linux image; follow this guide

For capturing and visualizing data from the device:

  1. ACE and DPG Lite Software Applications

  2. IIO Oscilloscope, a graphical tool for capturing and visualizing IIO device data

Note

ADI does not offer FPGA carrier platforms for sale or loan; obtaining one is part of the normal evaluation or development process.