Quickstart

The Quick start guides provide simple step by step instructions on how to do an initial system setup for the PulSAR LVDS ADC evaluation boards (EVAL-AD7625, EVAL-AD7626, EVAL-AD7960, EVAL-AD7961) on various FPGA development boards. In these guides, we will discuss how to program the bitstream, run a no-OS program or boot a Linux distribution.

• ZedBoard
  • Using Linux as software
    • Necessary files
    • Required Software
    • Required Hardware
    • Testing
      • Creating the setup
  • Using no-OS as software
    • Required Software
    • Required Hardware
    • Testing
      • Creating the setup
      • Console output

Supported carriers

The PulSAR LVDS ADC evaluation boards are, by definition, “FPGA mezzanine cards” (FMC); that means they need a carrier to plug into.

The carriers we support are:

FPGA board	EVAL-AD7625/AD7626/AD7960/AD7961
ZedBoard	FMC LPC

Supported Environments

The supported OS are:

FPGA board	HDL	Linux software	No-OS software
ZedBoard	Yes	Yes	Yes

Hardware Setup

The evaluation board connects to the FMC LPC connector of the carrier board. The carrier setup requires power, UART (115200), ethernet (Linux), HDMI (if available) and/or JTAG (no-OS) connections.

A few typical setups are shown below.

ZedBoard + PulSAR LVDS ADC

Figure 1 ZedBoard + PulSAR LVDS ADC hardware setup