Required equipment, Overview – Maxim Integrated Sonoma (MAXREFDES14) ZedBoard User Manual
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Sonoma (MAXREFDES14#) ZedBoard Quick Start Guide
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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 WebPack
TM
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
• ZedBoard
TM
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
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
®
Cortex
TM
-A9 processors.