Chapter 1: Ams101 Evaluation Card Overview; Overview - Xilinx AMS101 User Manual

AMS101 Evaluation Card Overview

Overview

AMS101 Evaluation Card
The Xilinx 7 series FPGAs and Zynq-7000® All Programmable System on a Chip (AP SoC)
each feature two 1 Mega-sample per second (MSPS), 12-bit, Xilinx analog-to-digital
converters (XADCs) built into the device (FPGA or SoC). The Analog Mixed Signal (AMS)
technology combines the XADC analog measurement with the device's logic for simple
system monitoring to more signal processing-intensive tasks like linearization, calibration,
oversampling, and filtering. The AMS101 evaluation card (part number HW-AMS101-G)
provides an analog source to verify the XADC and AMS performance. The AMS101
evaluation card plugs into all Xilinx 7 series FPGA and Zynq-7000 AP SoC base boards.
Reference designs are supplied for the ZC702, KC705, AC701, and VC707 base boards.
Download these files from either the individual kit support pages or the
Evaluation Card
example in this document (see
and soft content required to evaluate XADC and to determine how it can be useful in the
end system.
To evaluate the Xilinx Analog Mixed Signal (AMS) capability, these items from the kit are
needed:
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AMS101 Evaluation Card User Guide
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website. For convenience, the KC705 FPGA base board is used as the
Access to the XADC header (see
AMS101 evaluation card (see
Two USB cables (1x Standard-A plug to Mini-B plug USB cable and 1x Standard-A
plug to Micro-B plug USB cable for download and debug
USB-UART drivers
Download AMS reference design files from the
Download AMS evaluator tool graphical user interface (7 Series FPGA and Zynq-7000
AP SoC AMS Evaluator Installer for AMS Targeted Reference Design—see
www.xilinx.com
Figure 1-1). The KC705 evaluation kit includes hardware
Figure 1-1)
Figure 1-2 and Table 1-1
AMS101 Evaluation Card
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for a description of features)
website.
Figure 1-3).
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