Xilinx Educational Resources

Xilinx Educational Resources

Xilinx University Program

For universities to get access to software and IP licenses, teaching and training materials, subsidized Xilinx boards, and to request donations.

www.xilinx.com/support/university.html

XUP University workshop material (Presentations, Hands-on labs)
www.xilinx.com/support/university/workshops.html

XUP GitHub

https://github.com/xupgit/

Xilinx forums
forums.xilinx.com

Zynq Resources

www.zynqbook.com Free pdf ebook about the Xilinx Zynq device

www.zedboard.org - some Zedboard resources, but now more targeted at Avnet boards.

www.digilentinc.com purchase Xilinx university boards.

Zynq MOOC videos TU Kaiserslautern
https://ems.eit.uni-kl.de/en/courses/online-courses/xilinx-zynq/
Training:
http://www.googoolia.com/wp/category/zynq-training/

Adam Taylor Blog:
Ebook:
http://www.amazon.com/MicroZed-Chronicles-Zynq-Adam-Taylor-ebook/dp/B00V2GXZQM

Zynq Blogs Useful information and guides to getting started with Zynq.
http://zedboard.org/zynqgeek

http://svenand.blogdrive.com/
http://www.drdobbs.com/embedded-systems/the-kitchen-zynq/240166645
http://billauer.co.il/blog/category/zynq/
https://tingcao.wordpress.com/category/zynq/

Xilinx Open Hardware; European Student Design Contest 

www.openhardware2015.org

Open Hardware Student projects and Videos:
www.openhardware2015.org/2015-finalists.html

Instructables Hack A day Dangerous Prototypes Make.com ARM Community Zedboard Elements 14 Community Xilinx Forums Linux community EDN Design Community EEV Blog Electronics-lab community

http://www.instructables.com/ http://hackaday.com/ http://dangerousprototypes.com/ http://makezine.com/projects/ http://blogs.arm.com/ http://www.zedboard.org/ https://www.element14.com/community/index.jspa http://forums.xilinx.com/ https://www.linux.com/community http://www.edn.com/design-ideas/all http://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php http://www.electronics-lab.com/forum/index.php

Synchronize Multiple FPGA systems
http://www.nutaq.com/blog/multi-channel-synchronization-fpga-based-daq-systems

Configure Ethernet adapter with static IP to work with Xilinx SDSoc Zynq board (Zybo)

SDSOC debug of Zynq board with USB Ethernet adapter

To debug with SDSoc, you need to connect a network interface between your host PC and the Zynq development board you are using.

You could plug the board into a network or router and allow the board to obtain an IP via DHCP. 

Alternatively, you can use a USB adapter to connect your host PC directly to the board, and this post describes how you do this.

Procedure

• Connect the USB adapter and install the driver. 

In windows, configure the network interface to have a static IP (192.168.0.1)

• Identify the network connection, then go to:

Windows Network connections>  [connection name] and double click to open the status

• Click on Properties > Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) > properties

• Select Use the following IP address

IP address: 162.168.0.1

subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 

• Boot the Zynq board, and from a command prompt, check the ip

> ifconfig

You should see something similar to this:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0A:35:00:01:22

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:313 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:23411 (22.8 KiB)  TX bytes:2394 (2.3 KiB)

          Interrupt:143 Base address:0xb000

There is no IP address configured for eth0. (It expects to receive an IP via DHCP)

Set IP address dynamically 

To dynamically change the IP (need to do this every time the board is power cycled)

>ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.10


Set IP address statically

To change the settings for the adapter in the network interfaces settings (saving this to the filesystem will retain the settings after power cycling):

• Start vi and edit /etc/network/interfaces

>vi /etc/network/interfaces

** Tips for vi; **

se the arrows to navigate to the point in the file you want to edit.

Press i (insert) to move to edit mode, and use delete to remove

Press ESC :wq<enter> to save and quit

• Modify the file to include:

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

#

auto eth0

iface eth0 inet static

        address 192.168.0.10

        network 192.168.0.1

        netmask 255.255.255.0

• Reset the interface

>ip addr flush dev eth0 && ifdown -a && ifup -a

• Check the IP address:

>ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0A:35:00:01:22

          inet addr:192.168.0.10  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:431 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:30458 (29.7 KiB)  TX bytes:4992 (4.8 KiB)

          Interrupt:143 Base address:0xb000

  

Check connection to host:

>ping 192.168.0.1

PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=0 ttl=128 time=2.081 ms

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In SDSoc, create a New Target Connection

Give it a name, and use the IP of the board as the host (192.168.0.10) and click OK. 

You should now be able to debug