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Former Member over 11 years ago

Is there any GPIO available to the PL other than the FMC pins?  I'm planning to use the FMC site for an ADC board, and need access to some additional low-speed pins.
In the hardware guide, I see an image that shows a 20-pin P1 connector that looks promising, but I didn't see that connector in the schematic.

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    0 Former Member over 9 years ago

    Hi,
    I need about 10 GPIOs but I can make use of the FMC connector. Can anyone advise me how to attach a single ended signal to those pins?
    I'm asking because in the default xdc file the IOSTANDARD is set to 'LVDS'. I can successfully build bitstream files with Vivado when setting the IOSTANDARD to e.g. LVCMOSxx. But I'm unsure whether this might be the reason why my simple implementation is not working. Any help/advise is appreciated.

    Kris

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    0 Former Member over 9 years ago in reply to Former Member

    I have already found some general information on the signaltypes in the User Guide of the Board (Zynq Mini-ITX Development Board User Guide in Version 1.1.0 Rev. E).
    On page 28 in section 2.10 it is said, thatthe I/Os can be configured for either single-ended or differential use.
    But I didn't get the point with using the differential pairs:
    Does it mean that I can attach a single ended signal to one pin of the pair and need to leave the other open? E.g. use AJ8 and leave AJ7 open

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    0 Former Member over 9 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Hello Kris,

     

    You can use both signals in a 'differential pair' as individual single ended signals. The signals labeled differential are just selected and routed so that they can be used as a differential pair but that does not limit their single ended use.

     

    -Gary

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    0 Former Member over 9 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Hello Gary,
    thanks for the last response. It totally solved my problems. Unfortunately I've new ones now:
    Are the Pins of the FMC connector different usable in terms of an output voltage?
    In my VHDL Code I assigned the pin with the 'set_property' command configuring LVCMOS33 as the signal type.
    But this leads to an output voltage of ~2.5V (measured with a scope, without any load attached).
    If this is due to the use of certain pins of the FMC connector it would be nice to get any information where to find details about the voltages that could be driven at the contacts. Or which pins are able to drive an 3.3V output?

    Of cource I need to set the "drive" parameter afterwards according to the load I'm going to attach.

    Thanks in advance,
    Kris

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    0 Former Member over 9 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Hi Kris,

     

    Looks like you found the FMC VADJ jumper:

     

    http://zedboard.org/content/voltage-level-fmc-pins

     

    -Gary

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    0 Former Member over 9 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Hi Kris,

     

    Looks like you found the FMC VADJ jumper:

     

    http://zedboard.org/content/voltage-level-fmc-pins

     

    -Gary

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