Arty S7 Windows Interface

[rad1vt]

I am just getting started with the Arty S7 board in hopes of creating a ADC/FFT project. I have the XADC Demo working fine.

Now I am trying to find a way to send data from the Arty to a Windows PC to allow further development on the desktop.

Is there an app or example I can check out?

[JColvin]

Hi @rad1vt,

You can do this with the on-board USB-UART communication to send and receive data over a serial terminal. The Arty S7 General I/O Demo, https://digilent.com/reference/programmable-logic/arty-s7/demos/gpio, sends data over UART to the host PC.

There is also some additional material on this sort of application in this thread: https://forum.digilent.com/topic/24971-zybo-z7-uart-over-one-of-the-pmod-ports-example/?sortby=date

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
JColvin

[rad1vt]

Hi JColvin,

I have S7-50-GPIO working using Absolute Telnet.

Does look like a pile of work to add it to XADC which is verilog?? Help!!

You folks should consider writing a visual C template to complement your hardware..

Thanks,

rad1vt

[artvvb]

Hi @rad1vt,

Instantiating Verilog modules in VHDL and vice versa is fairly straightforward - the languages can be mixed as desired in Vivado projects. More info here: https://support.xilinx.com/s/question/0D52E00006hplv1SAA/can-i-mix-between-vhdlverilog-on-vivado-?language=en_US, and here: https://www.edaboard.com/threads/can-i-mix-vhdl-and-verilog-in-my-design.132844/.

UART controllers can also be pretty straightforward to implement, depending on what bells and whistles (like parameterized baud rate as an example) you want. Here's an example for both TX and RX with both languages: https://nandland.com/uart-serial-port-module/

Thanks,

Arthur