Sonoma (MAXREFDES14#) ZedBoard
Quick Start Guide
Rev 0; 9/13
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Sonoma (MAXREFDES14#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide
Table of Contents
1. Required Equipment ................................................................................................. 3
2. Overview ................................................................................................................... 3
3. Included Files ........................................................................................................... 5
4. Procedure ................................................................................................................. 6
5. Code Documentation .............................................................................................. 19
6. Appendix A: Project Structure and Key Filenames ................................................. 20
7. Trademarks ............................................................................................................ 20
8. Revision History ...................................................................................................... 21
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1. Required Equipment
• PC with Windows® OS with Xilinx® ISE®/SDK version 14.2 or later and two USB
ports (Refer to Xilinx AR# 51895 if you installed ISE WebPackTM design software
on your PC.)
• 120V AC power source or wall outlet
• AC load
• License for Xilinx EDK/SDK version 14.2 or later (Free WebPack license is OK)
• Sonoma (MAXREFDES14#) board
• ZedBoardTM development kit
2. Overview
Below is a high-level overview of the steps required to quickly get the Sonoma design
running by downloading and running the FPGA project. Detailed instructions for each
step are provided in the following pages. The Sonoma (MAXREFDES14#) subsystem
reference design will be referred to as Sonoma throughout this document.
1) Connect the Sonoma board to the JA1 port of a ZedBoard as shown in Figure 1.
Ensure the connector is aligned as shown in
2) Connect the power supply and the load to the Sonoma board.
3) Download the latest RD14V01_00.ZIP file located at the Sonoma page.
4) Extract the RD14V01_00.ZIP file to a directory on your PC.
5) Open the Xilinx SDK.
6) Download the bitstream (.BIT) file to the board. This bitstream contains the FPGA
hardware design and software bootloader.
7) Use Xilinx SDK to download and run the executable file (.ELF) on one of the two
ARM® CortexTM -A9 processors.
Figure 2.
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Figure 1. Sonoma Board Connected to ZedBoard Development Kit
Figure 2. Pmod™ Connector Alignment
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3. Included Files
The top level of the hardware design is a Xilinx PlanAhead Project (.prr) for Xilinx
PlanAhead version 14.2. The Verilog-based arm_system_stub.v module provides
FPGA/board net connectivity, and instantiates the wrapper that carries the Zynq®
Processing System. This is supplied as a Xilinx soft ware development kit (SDK) project
that includes a demons tration software application to evaluate the Sonoma subsystem
reference design. The lower level c-code driver routines are portable to the user ’s own
software project.
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Figure 3. Block Diagram of FPGA Hardware Design
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4. Procedure
1. Connect the Sonoma board to the JA1 port of a ZedBoard as shown in Figure 1.
2. Connect J14 and J17 connectors of the ZedBoard to the computer with MicroUSB cables.
3. Connect the AC power supply and the load to the Sonoma board as shown in
Figure 4.
4. Power up t he ZedBoard by sliding the SW8 switch on the ZedBoard to the ON
position.
5. Download the latest RD14V01_00.ZIP file at
www.maximintegrated.com/sonoma. All files available for download are
available at the bottom of the page.
6. Extract the RD14V01_00.ZIP file to a directory on your PC. The location is
arbitrary but the maximum path length limitation in Windows (260 characters)
should not be exceeded.
In addition, the Xilinx tools require the path to not contain any spaces.
C:\Do Not Use Spaces In The Path\RD14V01_00.ZIP (This path has spaces.)
For the purposes of this document, it will be C:\designs\maxim\RD14V01_00\.
See Appendix A: Project Structure and Key Filenames in this document for
the project structure and key filenames.
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Figure 4. Sonoma Power and Load Connections
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7. Open the Xilinx Software Development Kit (SDK) from the Windows Start
menu.
8. 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\RD14V01_00\RD14_ZED_V01_00\Design_Files\top.sdk\SDK\
SDK_Export
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.
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9. 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.
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10. 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\RD14V01_00\RD14_ZED_V01_00\Design_Files\top.sdk\SDK\SD
K_Export
and the missing projects should appear in SDK Project Explorer with their
checkboxes checked.
Click Finish to import the projects.
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11. 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 paths below.
Bitstream:
C:\designs\maxim\RD14V01_00\RD14_ZED_V01_00\Design_Files\top.sdk\S
DK\SDK_Export\arm_system_hw_platform
Press Program.
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It takes approximately 10 seconds to download the FPGA, then a message box
indicating FPGA configuration complete appears.
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12. Set up t he 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 emul ate a serial port (UART).
To establish this communication link, the PC must be configured with the
appropriate Windows drivers. A suitable ter minal program such as Tera Term or
HyperTerminal should be invoked.
The ZedBo ard utilizes the Cypress USB-UART bridge IC. If the Windows cannot
automatically install the driver for the Cypress USB-UART bridge IC, the dr iver is
available for download from (www.cypress.com/?rID=63794). The driver is
WHQL certified for the default Cypress VID / PID of 0x04B4 / 0x0008.
Once installed, Windows will assign a previously unused COM port. Use the
Windows Control Panel | System | Device Manager to determine the COM port
number. (It will be named Cypress Serial.) Make a note of w hich COM port this
is. That information is needed in the next step.
Next, a terminal emulation program needs to be installed and launched. For
Windows XP® and earlier systems, the HyperTerminal program is the usual
choice. However, since HyperTerminal was eliminated from Windows 7, it may
be necessary to locate an alternative. Several are available; one good choice is
called Tera Term (http://ttssh2.sourceforge.jp/). Whatever terminal program you
choose, the communication should be set up by opening the COM port number
previously described above and the port configured as:
bits per second: 460,800;
data bits: 8;
parity: none;
stop bits: 1;
flow control: none.
Note: If the terminal program does not connect correctly at the baud rate above,
please drop the baud rate to 115.2kbps.
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13. 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 MAXREFDES14 C project is selected, choose
the Run As menu, and then Run Configurations… menu as shown below.
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Next, double-click the mouse on the Xilinx C/C++ ELF menu.
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Next, press the Search Project button.
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Double-click on the MAXREFDES14.elf binary.
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Verify the application is selected on the Main tab.
On the Device Initialization tab, click Browse… button to select the right
initialization TCL file and press the Run button.
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Once the Debug/MAXREFDES14 configuration is set up once, you just need to
press the Run button if you ever want to run the program again.
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At this point, the application is running on the Cortex-A9 and the terminal program
should show the menu below. Make the desired sel ections by pressing the appropriate
keys on the keyboard. For example, to select Register Read command, press 0.
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5. Code Documentation
Code documentation can be found at:
C:\...\RD14V01_00\RD14_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
MAXREFDES14_Code_Documentation.pdf file.
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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.
Pmod is a trademark of Digilent Inc.
Windows is a registered trademark and registered service mark and Windows XP is a
registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
Xilinx is a registered trademark and registered service mark of Xilinx, Inc.
ZedBoard is a trademark of Avnet, Inc.
Zynq is a registered trademark of Xilinx, Inc.
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8. Revision History
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