Xilinx voucher for Vivado Design Suite

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Hi,

When purchasing a PicoZed SDR, are we entitled for a license voucher to Xilinx Vivado Design Suite?

If not, will the free ISE WebPACK license be suffice to write applications such as receive samples to file or transmit samples from file?

Thanks,

Roy

Former Member · Accepted Answer

I'm not aware of any tutorials, but the stock image boots to the IIO Oscilloscope program, which controls the hardware and can plot signals in the time and frequency domain as well as the constellation. That program is open source ( https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/iio-oscilloscope ), and would be a good example to look at if you want to build a high level application.

I personally just needed a way to control the hardware (set freq, sample rate, etc) and pull in raw samples to process, so I used the simple low level AD9361-iiostream example ( https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/libiio/blob/master/examples/ad9361-iiostream.c ). This code, plus some simple mods for file I/O would quickly get you to the point of receiving to a file and transmitting from a file.

Note that you certainly won't be able to pull/push samples to/from the ARM and SD card at the maximum AD9361 sample rate. I've never tested the limit, but I'd guess that you'd be limited to around 5 MSPS or so without dropping samples (5 MSPS w/ 16-bit I/Q samples would be 20MB/s).

Pat

Xilinx voucher for Vivado Design Suite

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