Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA AC701 - Page 21

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Advanced Bring-up with Base Targeted Reference Design
Test Setup Requirements
The prerequisites for testing the design in hardware are
• AC701 evaluation board with XC7A200T FPGA
• Design consisting of:
• Design source files
• Device driver files
• FPGA programming files
• Documentation
• Vivado Design Edition v2013.2
•Micro USB cable
• Fedora 16 LiveDVD
• A PC with PCIe v2.1 compliant slot. For a complete list of recommended machines,
and all known issues, see the Artix-7 FPGA Base Targeted Reference Design Release
Notes and Known Issues Master Answer Record at http://www.xilinx.com/
support/answers/53372.htm.
Note:
The PC could also have Fedora 16 Linux OS installed.
Hardware Demonstration Setup
This section details the hardware setup and use of the provided control and monitoring
application and GUI to assist in getting started quickly with the hardware. Step-by-step
explanations are provided on hardware bring-up, software bring-up, and the use of the
application GUI.
Board Setup
This section details how to set up the AC701 evaluation board as required for
demonstrating the TRD.