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MAXREFDES32# ZedBoard Quick Start Guide
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1. Required Equipment
• MAXREFDES32# board
• ZedBoard
TM
Rev C development kit
• Industrial sensor or signal source
• To run the binary from SD card:
o Host PC with Windows® OS with Terminal Software installed
(HyperTerminal) and one USB port
o Cypress USB-UART bridge device driver
o 4GB FAT32 formatted SD card
• To run the software from the Xilinx® SDK:
o PC with Windows OS with Xilinx PlanAhead™/SDK version 14.2 or later
and two USB ports
o License for Xilinx EDK/SDK (free WebPACK™ license is OK)
o Xilinx Platform Cable USB II-compatible JTAG device
2. Overview
The MAXREFDES32 ZedBoard software can be downloaded to the ZedBoard board via
two methods:
• (Easiest) Boot from an SD card containing a binary file that loads the necessary
CPU bootloader, FPGA bitstream, and MAXREFDES32# executable file. This
approach is explained in detail in Section 3
of this document.
• (Flexible) Use the Xilinx SDK to download the board bitstream and executable
file. This approach allows the source code to be modified. This approach is
explained in detail of Section 4
of this document.
3. Boot from an SD Card
The steps below describe how to download the binary image (BOOT.BIN), install on an
SD card, and begin using the MAXREFDES32 system.
1) Download the latest BOOT.BIN file from the MAXREFDES32# page.
2) Obtain a FAT32 formatted 4GB SD card such as the one provided with the
ZedBoard.
3) Copy the BOOT.BIN file onto the SD card. A USB-to-SD adapter is normally
required to do this on a PC with Windows OS (Figure 1).
4) Ensure the SD card is the BOOT.BIN file. Note that if using the Avnet supplied
SD card, it comes pre-installed with a Linux test image. This image needs to
be removed.
5) Remove the SD card from the host PC. Make sure the ZedBoard is powered off,
and insert the SD card in the ZedBoard (Figure 2).
6) Configure the ZedBoard boot source jumpers to boot from SD (Figure 3 and
Figure 4).