Quick start guide

The Quick start guides provide simple step by step instructions on how to do an initial system setup for the ADQUADMXFE1EBZ board on the VCU118 FPGA development board. In this guide, we will discuss how to program the bitstream and boot a Linux distribution.

• On VCU118
  • Using Linux as software
    • Necessary files
    • Required software
    • Required hardware
    • Testing
      • Creating the setup
      • Boot messages
      • Useful commands for the serial terminal
      • Check JESD204 link status
  • See also
• Bring-up guide
  • Software setup
    • HDL/Image
    • IIO Oscilloscope / LibIIO
    • PuTTY
    • Xilinx Software Command Line Tool (XSCT)
    • MATLAB (Optional)
  • Quick start bringup with hardware
    • General board power up/programming sequence
  • MATLAB control overview
    • Controlling Quad-MxFE with MATLAB
    • CalBoardVCU118.m
    • LoadVcu118Code.m
    • QuadMxFE_SimpleTxRx.m
    • QuadMxFE_SystemAlignmentFIR.m
    • QuadMxFE_MCS.m
    • QuadMxFE_ADCtoDAC_Loopback.m
  • Debug
    • No blue lights are visible on board

Supported carriers

The ADQUADMXFE1EBZ connects to the carrier via an FMC+ extender.

FPGA board	Connector
VCU118	FMC+

Supported environments

FPGA board	HDL	Linux software
VCU118	Yes	Yes

Hardware setup

VCU118 + ADQUADMXFE1EBZ

Go to the setup guide.