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Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide Table of Contents 1. Required Equipment ................................................................................................. 3 2. Overview ................................................................................................................... 3 3. Included Files ........................................................................................................... 5 4. Procedure ...........................................
Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide 1. Required Equipment • • • • • • PC with Windows® OS with Xilinx® ISE®/SDK version 14.2 or later and two USB ports (Refer to Xilinx AR# 52495 if you installed ISE WebPACKTM design software on your PC.) License for Xilinx EDK/SDK version 14.2 or later (free WebPACK license is OK) Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) board ZedBoardTM development kit One +24V 1A DC power supply One 750Ω 0.25W resistor 2.
Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide Figure 1. Alameda Board Connected to ZedBoard Kit Figure 2.
Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide 3. Included Files The top level of the hardware design is a Xilinx ISE Project Navigator Project (.XISE) for Xilinx ISE version 14.2. The Verilog-based top.v module provides FPGA/board net connectivity, allows HDL interaction with peripherals, and instantiates the wrapper that carries both the Zynq® Processing System and (I2C, SPI, GPIO, UART) soft peripherals that interface to the Pmod ports.
Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide 4. Procedure 1. Connect the Alameda board to the JA1 and JB1 ports of a ZedBoard as shown in Figure 1. 2. Connect the +24V power supply positive terminal and the ground terminal to the +24V and the PGND connectors on the Alameda board, respectively. 3. Connect one end of the 750Ω load resistor to the OUT1 connector on the Alameda board. Connect the other end of the 750Ω load resistor to the AGND1 connector on the Alameda board. 4.
Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide 11. Open the Xilinx Software Development Kit (SDK) from the Windows Start menu. 12. SDK will prompt for a workspace directory, which is the location where the software project is located. For this example, it is: C:\designs\maxim\RD24V01_00\RD24_ZED_V01_00\Design_Files\sdkWorkspace Click OK and SDK will open. The Xilinx SDK is based on an Eclipse™-based IDE, so it will be a familiar flow for many software developers.
Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide 13. Review the SDK IDE. The Project Explorer in the upper left tab should have three components as shown in the image below. If all three subfolders are present, you can skip the next step.
Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide 14. If the Project Explorer does not contain these three subfolders, launch the File | Import menu, expand the General folder, and select Existing Projects into Workspace. Click Next. Set the root directory to: C:\designs\maxim\RD24V01_00\RD24_ZED_V01_00\Design_Files\sdkWorkspace and the missing projects should appear in SDK Project Explorer with their checkboxes checked. Click Finish to import the projects.
Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide 15. To download the bitstream (.BIT) file to the board, click on the Program FPGA icon (which looks like a green chain of devices). The Program FPGA dialog box appears. From here, an FPGA Bitstream (.bit) file is selected. Be sure to select the .bit file by using the path below. Bitstream: C:\designs\maxim\RD24V01_00\RD24_ZED_V01_00\Design_Files\top.bit Press Program.
Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide 16. Set up the terminal program to run on the PC using the following steps. Before loading the executable firmware file on the FPGA, the terminal program on the PC should be running. The example firmware running on the FPGA communicates with the PC via a USB port set up to emulate a serial port (UART). To establish this communication link, the PC must be configured with the appropriate Windows drivers.
Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide 17. Use the Xilinx SDK to download and run the executable ELF (.ELF) file on the ARM Cortex-A9 processor using the following steps. Right-click the mouse while the MAXREFDES24 C project is selected, choose the Run As menu, and then Run Configurations… menu as shown below.
Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide Next, double-click the mouse on the Xilinx C/C++ ELF menu.
Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide Next, press the Search Project button.
Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide Double-click on the MAXREFDES24.elf binary.
Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide Verify the application is selected on the Main tab.
Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide On the Device Initialization tab, click Browse… button to select the right initialization TCL file and press the Run button. Once the Debug/MAXREFDES24 configuration is set up once, you just need to press the Run button if you ever want to run the program again.
Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide At this point, the application will be running on the Cortex-A9 and the terminal program should show the menu below. Make the desired selections by pressing the appropriate keys on the keyboard. For example, to select current output, press 0.
Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide 5. Code Documentation Code documentation can be found at: C:\...\RD24V01_00\RD24_ZED_V01_00\Code_Documentation\ To view the code documentation in HTML format with a browser, open the MainPage.html file. To view the code documentation in .PDF format with a PDF reader, open the MAXREFDES24_Code_Documentation.pdf file.
Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide 6. Appendix A: Project Structure and Key Filenames 7. Trademarks ARM is a registered trademark of ARM Ltd. Cortex is a trademark of ARM Ltd. Eclipse is a trademark of Eclipse Foundation, Inc. ISE is a registered trademark of Xilinx, Inc. MicroBlaze is a trademark of Xilinx, Inc. Pmod is a trademark of Digilent, Inc. WebPACK is a trademark of Xilinx, Inc.
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