Recently I received my ZedBoard after a long decision process I went through for choosing a development board. My intentions are to use it mostly for hardware design and yes it has a interesting smell (reminds me of soy-sauce).
My problem occurs when using the usb-uart bridge to communicate via terminal program. I connected the micro usb cable from J14 to my computers usb port several times like in the GettingStartedGuide p.11/p.12 described, but the drivers are not automatically installed by win7. So I manually installed the drivers like in the cypress CY7C64225 usb-to-uart setup guide described (several times), but the device is not recognized. The only way the drivers are automatically installed correctly on the win7 machine and a serial connection can be obtained through the terminal software, is when a powered monitor is connected to the vga connector.
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here or do I allways have connected a monitor to the ZedBoard to communicate via the cypress device?
thanks and regards
pkarch3000
