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Zedboard and FMC conection

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Former Member over 10 years ago

Hello

I'm trying to conect a FMC150 card to zedboard to get values from adc of FMC card and then pass them trough zedboard to my computer to use that values in Matlab.

But now i'm currently stuck, because i don't know how to proceed and make a vivado project to this problem.

Anyone has some experience that can share?

Thanks

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  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 10 years ago

    4DSP indicates on their website that they have a ZedBoard reference design for the FMC150:http://www.4dsp.com/FMC150.php

     

    You will need to contact them directly.

     

    -Gary

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  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

    I'll got the ref design from them, but the problem is that the ref design is only for ISE. And i want a vivado project and i do not know how to pass the ISE project for Vivado.

    I thought that knowing the components from FMC 150, and with the ADC datasheet i could design an IP for Vivado and then including the right constraints for the connections between fmc150 and zedboard, i could get the project  work without using the ref design.
    Could it be possible?

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    0 Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Sure, it is possible. The ISE reference design from 4DSP should have a .ucf constraints file to set the pin locations and timing constraints required. You will need to convert these requirements to a Vivado style .xdc constraints file. If you download the ZedBoard Master XDC user constraints file from the Zedboard documentation page (  http://zedboard.org/support/documentation/1521 ) you can start with this file. The ucf style location constraints are included in comment fields as well.

     

    As for designing the project design I would suggest looking at the 4DSP ISE project to understand how it works and then implement a similar design in Vivado. If you are not familiar with designing with the Vivado tools I would suggest spending some time learning the tools first. There are lots of great resources available.

    The Avnet Zynq Speedway workshops: 

    Developing ZynqRegistered-7000 All Programmable SoC Software (Vivado 2013.3)

    Developing ZynqRegistered-7000 All Programmable SoC Hardware (Vivado 2013.3)

    The Zedboard Zynq Tools Concepts and Techniques tutorial: http://zedboard.org/support/design/1521/11

    There are some good blogs out there as well:

    http://zedboard.org/content/zynq-design-scratch

    http://zedboard.org/content/microzed-chronicles-free-e-book-released

    http://www.fpgadeveloper.com/category/tutorials

     

    -Gary

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    0 Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Thanks a lot

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  • tonyte
    0 tonyte over 9 years ago

    Hi,

      We had recently purchased a 4DSP FMC150 board for the purpose of using it's high-speed DAC and interface it with the Zedboard.  The do provide a reference design and we were also able to get that working using their PC (Host) and Zedboard (PS) software.

      However, trying to insert our own custom IP turned in the FMC150 out to be a nightmare, poor documentation and pathetic support. It took few weeks before we could get a handle on it and yet struggling to bypass a bulk of unwanted IPs and Host communication protocol that the reference design has.

      Eventually we bought an ADI card (AD9467-FMC-250EBZ),  we got the whole thing working with our own custom IPs inserted in a matter of 3 days.  ADI's support was also excellent.

    Regards

    Tony.

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