NOEL-ARTYA7-EX-QSG
December 2020, Version 1.2
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1. Introduction
1.1. Overview
This document is a quick start guide for the NOEL-ARTYA7-EX design. The guide is mainly how-to oriented
and does not go into many technical details. For more in-depth information we refer to respective products User's
Manual. See the reference list below.
1.2. Availability
The FPGA bitstreams and software environment is available on the NOEL-ARTYA7-EX web page: https://
www.gaisler.com/NOEL-ARTYA7.
1.3. Prerequisites
To use the provided bitstream, the user needs:
• Digilent Arty A7 FPGA Development Board (A7-100T version)
• GRMON 3.2.9 evaluation version available at https://www.gaisler.com/grmon.
• Xilinx Vivado Design Suite to program the FPGA ([RD-7]).
1.4. References
Table 1.1. References
RD-1
NOEL-ARTYA7-EX User's Manual [https://www.gaisler.com/NOEL-ARTYA7]
RD-2
GRMON User's Manual [https://www.gaisler.com/doc/grmon3.pdf]
RD-3
RTEMS homepage [https://www.rtems.org]
RD-4
RTEMS User Manual [https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/user/index.html]
RD-5
Arty A7 Reference Manual [https://reference.digilentinc.com/reference/programmable-log-
ic/arty-a7/reference-manual]
RD-6
Buildroot homepage [https://www.buildroot.com]
RD-7
Xilinx Vivado Design Suite [https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/program-
ming/4977-flashpro]