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Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) LX9 MicroBoard Quick Start Guide 

 

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.) 

  License for Xilinx EDK/SDK version 14.2 or later (free WebPACK license is OK) 

  Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) board 

  Avnet Spartan®-6 LX9 MicroBoard 

  One +24V 1A DC power supply 

  One 750

Ω 0.25W resistor  

2.  Overview 

Below is a high-level overview of the steps required to quickly get the Alameda design 
running by  downloading  and running  the FPGA project. Detailed instructions for each 
step are provided in the following pages. 

The Alameda (MAXREFDES24#) subsystem 

reference design will be referred to as Alameda throughout this document.

 

 

1)  Connect the Alameda board to the J4 and J5 ports of an LX9 MicroBoard as 

shown in 

Figure 1

. Ensure the connector is aligned as shown in 

Figure 2

. The 

communication between the Alameda board and the LX9 MicroBoard is through 
the pins on the J4 connector. The J5 connector is for the board physical support 
only. 

2)  Download the latest 

RD24V01_00.ZIP

 file located at the Alameda page. 

3)  Extract the 

RD24V01_00.ZIP

 file to a directory on your PC.  

4)  Open the Xilinx SDK. 
5)  Download the bitstream (.BIT) file to the board. This bitstream contains the FPGA 

hardware design and software bootloader. 

6)  Open a terminal program to communicate with FPGA board. 
7)  Use Xilinx SDK to download and run the executable file (.ELF) on the 

MicroBlaze™. 

 

Содержание Alameda MAXREFDES24#

Страница 1: ...lied Maxim Integrated reserves the right to change the circuitry and specifications without notice at any time Maxim Integrated 160 Rio Robles San Jose CA 95134 USA 1 408 601 1000 2014 Maxim Integrate...

Страница 2: ...oBoard Quick Start Guide 2 Table of Contents 1 Required Equipment 3 2 Overview 3 3 Included Files 5 4 Procedure 6 5 Code Documentation 18 6 Appendix A Project Structure and Key Filenames 19 7 Trademar...

Страница 3: ...ing pages The Alameda MAXREFDES24 subsystem reference design will be referred to as Alameda throughout this document 1 Connect the Alameda board to the J4 and J5 ports of an LX9 MicroBoard as shown in...

Страница 4: ...Alameda MAXREFDES24 LX9 MicroBoard Quick Start Guide 4 Figure 1 Alameda Board Connected to LX9 Kit Figure 2 Pmod Connector Alignment...

Страница 5: ...e MicroBlaze core the support hardware required to run the MicroBlaze and the peripherals that interface to the Pmod ports Software is supplied as a Xilinx software development kit SDK project that in...

Страница 6: ...s used to communicate with a PC through a terminal program See step 16 for USB driver installation 7 Connect the J6 JTAG connector of the LX9 MicroBoard to a PC through a Xilinx programming cable This...

Страница 7: ...11 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 RD24V01_00 RD24_LX9_V01_00 Design_Files sdkWorkspace Cli...

Страница 8: ...LX9 MicroBoard Quick Start Guide 8 12 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...

Страница 9: ...h the File Import menu expand the General folder and select Existing Projects into Workspace Click Next Set the root directory to C designs maxim RD24V01_00 RD24_LX9_V01_00 Design_Files sdkWorkspace a...

Страница 10: ...cted as well as an FPGA BMM bmm file Be sure to select the bit file and the bmm file by using the paths below Bitstream C designs maxim RD24V01_00 RD24_LX9_V01_00 Design_Files top bit BMM File C desig...

Страница 11: ...family These may be obtained from the Silicon Labs website www silabs com Once installed Windows will assign a previously unused COM port Use the Windows Control Panel System Device Manager to determ...

Страница 12: ...12 16 Use the Xilinx SDK to download and run the executable ELF ELF file on the MicroBlaze using the following steps Right click the mouse while the MAXREFDES24 C project is selected choose the Run As...

Страница 13: ...Alameda MAXREFDES24 LX9 MicroBoard Quick Start Guide 13 Next double click the mouse on the Xilinx C C ELF menu...

Страница 14: ...Alameda MAXREFDES24 LX9 MicroBoard Quick Start Guide 14 Next press the Search Project button...

Страница 15: ...Alameda MAXREFDES24 LX9 MicroBoard Quick Start Guide 15 Double click on the MAXREFDES24 elf binary...

Страница 16: ...Quick Start Guide 16 Verify the application is selected on the Main tab and press the Run button Once the Debug MAXREFDES24 configuration is set up once you just need to press the Run button if you e...

Страница 17: ...Guide 17 At this point the application will be running on the MicroBlaze and the terminal program should show the menu below Make the desired selections by pressing the appropriate keys on the keyboar...

Страница 18: ...e documentation can be found at C RD24V01_00 RD24_LX9_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...

Страница 19: ...rademark of Xilinx Inc MicroBlaze is a trademark of Xilinx Inc Pmod is a trademark of Digilent Inc Spartan 6 is a registered trademark of Xilinx Inc WebPACK is a trademark of Xilinx Inc Windows is a r...

Страница 20: ...Alameda MAXREFDES24 LX9 MicroBoard Quick Start Guide 20 8 Revision History REVISION NUMBER REVISION DATE DESCRIPTION PAGES CHANGED 0 3 14 Initial release...

Страница 21: ...Mouser Electronics Authorized Distributor Click to View Pricing Inventory Delivery Lifecycle Information Maxim Integrated MAXREFDES24...

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