This version (26 Oct 2016 17:14) was approved by Lucian Sin, Neil Wilson.The Previously approved version (26 Oct 2016 16:22) is available.
Prerequisites for AD9361/AD9364 based boards
What you need, depends on what you are trying to do. As a minimum, you need to start out with:
- The AD9361/AD9364 based card. To determine which card is best for you, check out the introduction section.
- A carrier platform. ADI does not offer these boards for sale or loan, getting one yourself is normal part of development or evaluation of the AD9361/AD9364. Our recommended carriers (the ones we use all the time) are either:
- The ZedBoard. This is a low cost board, which can be used for basic HDL designs, or just for looking at the AD9361/AD9364. Most of our software and RF developers have this board.
- The Xilinx ZC706. The fabric on this device is much larger, and if you are looking at targeting - this is the recommended option.
- The Arrow SoCKit. This is a low cost board, which can be used for basic HDL designs, or just for looking at the AD9361.
- There are a few more boards, which do work, and are supported, but they are just not tested as often (most of the full time developers who work with the AD9361/AD9364 based boards use the Zed or the ZC706). The experience of the fabric only solutions is very close to the ARM/FPGA SoC based solutions, but the GUI runs on a host PC (Windows or Linux).
Supported Carriers
- some way to interact with the platform,
- for the ARM/FPGA SoC platforms, this normally includes:
- HDMI monitor (1080p is best) or VGA Monitor
- USB Keyboard
- USB Mouse
- for the FPGA only solutions, this includes:
- LAN cable (Ethernet)
- Host PC (Windows or Linux)
- Internet connection (without proxies makes things much easier) to update the scripts/binaries on the SD Card that came with the ADI FMC Card. (Firewalls are OK, proxies make things a pain).
- RF Test equipment
resources/eval/user-guides/ad-fmcomms2-ebz/prerequisites.txt · Last modified: 26 Oct 2016 17:13 by Lucian Sin