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Kit - Peripheral Modules for Zedboard

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All,

Maxim just put this Peripheral Modules kit up on their website:

http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store/em/EMController/Development-Kits/Maxim-Integrated/MAXPMBAE1/_/R-5003494800262/A-5003494800262/An-0?action=part&catalogId=500201&langId=-1&storeId=500201&listIndex=-1&page=1&rank=0

It has 15 different Peripheral Modules that do everything from temperature, DAC, ADC, and analog inputs.  If you are in need of bringing "the real world" onto your board, this is a really cheap way to do it.  You can 15 Peripheral Modules for $89.95

Looks like there are only 5 in stock right now, but I believe we are building more to be ready soon.

Happy Zynq'ing!

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    Thanks, Tim.  I will also point out that Maxim has posted design projects to use these Pmods with ZedBoard.  This is referenced from both the Accessories and Community Projects pages here on zedboard.org.

     

    Bryan

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    The Maxim Peripheral manual, UG5483, says to use the Xilinx ISE 14.1 SDK with v1_4 of the Maxim designs.

    I found a later version v1_6 of the Maxim designs and am attempting to open with SDK version 14.4, the latest version of both. Even though I open in the correct workspace, the SDK can't load the projects.

    Questions:
    1. Why can't the v1_6 projects load into the 14.4 SDK?
    2. Do I need a fully licensed EDK? I just have the webpack license which is supposed to work with the zedboard.
    3. Can I use the webpack SDK to just download the bit and elf files already compiled by Maxim for the zedboard?


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    OK, so the projects aren't loaded automatically from the workspace. I finally loaded the projects with File |Import |General | Existing Projects.

    I'm able to program the Zedboard with the bit file. But it's not enough. The Program FPGA dialog won't accept a BMM file as mentioned in the guide. That field is greyed out. Need to work on this some more....

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      I was told by Maxim that the SDK doesn't use the BMM, in contrast to the manual, which was wrong. The BMM is only for microblaze, and grey'ed out for Zynq in the latest ISEs such as 14.4 that I use.

      I still have an issue in downloading the elf file.  I get different types of errors, but usually saying u201CCOM3 is busyu201D when I try to download the elf program. (Yet the programming of the FPGA seems to go OK and gives a success over the same JTAG cable.)

      I checked the Board Support Package settings. The STDIN and STDIO is indeed set to ps7_uart_1. (see picture)

      When I first plugged in the zedboard, the UART went to COM3 by default, with the Cypress USB to Serial Adaptor. The Linux program, installed from the SD card, works fine and I can communicate to it well using PuTTY over COM3.

    Thinking the JTAG must need COM3, or be configured first, I did all sorts of device removal and reinstall/reboots. The UART kept going to COM3, but I finally got the UART to go to COM4 by plugging in the JTAG USB first after deleting the drivers. The linux boot from the SD card now works with COM4 for PuTTY. But now the Maxim instead now says u201CCanu2019t find COM3u201D, even though itu2019s configured to use ps7_uart_1. Sometimes it instead gives a lot of java errors if I keep trying to program the elf.

    Again, the FPGA programming always goes fine, itu2019s just that the SDK insists on programming the elf on COM3, even though it's the same cable connection.

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    OK, got the Maxim Peripherals working for the zedboard.

    The trick was a few things:
    1. Make sure the Run | Run Configuration menu has the STDIO has "Connect STDIO to Console" NOT selected.
    2. Make sure the boot mode jumpers are set correctly. This is with MIO2-6 set to ground. With the SD card for Linux boot installed and the mode jumpers set for that boot, the SDK launch of ELF will not properly configure the COM port, although things otherwise look right.
    3. Wait for the ELF to complete as per the lower status bar. It will hold at 44% for a minute.

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    hello

    you need tow cable connected to your Zedboard J17 and J14 , one for program and the second for UART port

    i get the same problem, and i fixed it by this solution, also you need to verify jumper